In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy addresses the parable of Lazarus going to Abraham’s bosom, the place called Paradise. Randy points out that God is not depicted there, but His people are. God’s people could not be in His presence because the Resurrection had not happened yet. God is going to bring the Present Heaven to the New Earth and relocate His people to the New Earth.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy talks about our resurrection bodies in reference to 1 Corinthians 15. He explains that we will have our resurrection bodies on the New Earth after the resurrection, but not in the Present Heaven.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy says God made us to be not just spiritual but also physical beings, and He promises the eventual physical resurrection of our bodies.

Life in this world—the way it is now and the way we are now—can be difficult, can’t it? It’s easy to become burdened, discouraged, depressed, or even traumatized when you suffer the loss of a loved one, when your health is failing, or when your dreams—your family, career, or lifelong ambitions—have crumbled.

In this conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy provides a biblical perspective of Heaven. He contrasts the Present Heaven and the New Heaven, and explains what the Bible says about our resurrection bodies.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy explains that God is the only way to get to Heaven. He points to John 14:6, where Jesus says that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.

It’s so easy for us to take what we know here in this present life, and think that what’s in Heaven will be a copy or derivative of our present experience. But it’s more accurate to view things like marriage now as a shadow of the true reality.

How much “time” elapses or how the dead experience any delays while waiting in the current, temporary Heaven is anybody’s guess. Scripture tells us everything we need to know for now and God will reveal as much more as He cares to when the right time comes.

I think He will always intercede for us because He loves us, and because even though we will not always be sinners, we will always be His finite creatures. To be finite is to be needy, even if one is morally perfect.