 We are not, as Christians, going to be just floating around on clouds throughout eternity the way so many people portray Heaven. John 14:2-3, KJV “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. God is King, Lord and Majesty. We are His children, princes and princesses. We will live like royalty. It is a promise from God. God has a literal place, a beautiful, sparkling city for us to dwell in, as long as we’ve accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, and gotten our names written down in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Revelation 21:9-27-22:1-5, TEV “One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said, “Come and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” The Spirit took control of me, and the angel carried me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down out of Heaven from God. And shining with the glory of God the city shown like a precious stone, like a jasper clear as crystal. It had a great high wall, with twelve gates and with twelve angels in charges of the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the people of Israel. There were three gates on each side: three on the east, three on the south, three on the north and three on the west. The city’s walls were built on twelve foundations stones, on which were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The angel that spoke to me had a gold measuring stick: it was fifteen hundred miles long and as wide and as high as it is long. The angel also measured the wall, and it was 216 feet high according to the standard unit of measure which he was using. The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself was made of pure gold, as clear as glass. The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stones was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, The fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh yellow quartz, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chalcedony, the eleventh turquoise, the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate was made from a single pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass. I did not see a temple in the city, because its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb. The city has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God shines on it, and the Lamb is its lamp. The peoples of the world will walk by its light and the kinds of the earth will bring their wealth into it. The gates of the city will stand open all day; they will never be close, because there will be no night there. But nothing that is impure will enter the city, not anyone who does shameful things or tells lies. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of the Living will enter the city. The angel also showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, and coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, And flowing down the middle of the city’s street. On each side of the river was the Tree of Life which bears fruit twelve times a years, once each month; and it’s leaves are for the healing of the nations. Nothing that is under God’s curse will be found in the city. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His servants will worship Him. They will see His face, and His Name will be written on their foreheads. There shall be no more night, and they will not need lamps or sunlight, because the Lord God will be their Light and they shall rule forever and ever.” There we will be forever with the Lord. He has a glorious eternal future for all of us who love Him and have given our lives to Him. All of us who will just believe in God right now and accept Jesus as Savior while there is still time, before the rapture, will have nothing to worry about. Please don’t miss out and get left behind. Remember God loves us so much, but you must love Him back in order for you to have a relationship with Him. Deuteronomy 30:19, KJV “I call Heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” |
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