Where will you spend eternity?
I don’t mean heaven or hell; I mean heaven or earth? Having
been brought up in evangelical churches from childhood, I have developed
certain theology ideas. One is that I will be in heaven forever because I am a
believer. The theology is that when death or the rapture comes I will find
myself living in a mansion, strolling down golden streets in heaven. Will I?
Exploring scripture that seem to support the
“living in heaven” position, we find “In
my Father’s house are many mansions: if
it were not so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you. And if I
go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also.”
"Blessed
are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
“Now
we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building
from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.” 2 Cor 5:1
“I
say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their
places at the feast with
These refer to a time
when the righteous will be taken temporarily from the earth –a time called “the
rapture” by church theology. What does the scripture teach us about our
eternal home? Where, eternally, does The Word teach us that we will live?
“The
LORD of hosts shall reign in
"At
that time they shall call
"Thus. saith the LORD; I am
returned unto
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“Blessed
are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.”
When Yeshua returns and
deals with his enemies, he establishes His throne in
And
it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which
came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
“On
that day living water will flow out from
And
the clincher for me –
Now it will come about that in the last days
The mountain of the house of the LORD
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
And many peoples will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths."
For the law will go forth from
And the word of the LORD from
And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into ploughshares and their spears into
pruning hooks.
And never again will they learn war.
Isaiah 2:2-4 NASB
Now, without trying to
cause a stir, I submit that after the rapture/tribulation is over, the
righteous in God will live forever on the earth with Yeshua/Jesus reigning from
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