Luke 22:29 (NIV)
29 And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my
Father conferred one on me,
Many people have asked, “Where is heaven?” We are not told
in the Scripture where heaven is. Some students have tried to take some
Scriptures and put them together and say that heaven is in the north. They
quote Psalm 48:2, “The joy of the whole earth is . . . on the sides of the
north . . . ” The magnetic needle points north. Perhaps the Celestial City is
in the north. We do not know. But no matter where heaven is, it will be where
Christ is.
Many people ask, “Do you believe that heaven is a literal
place?” Yes! Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.” The Bible teaches
that Enoch and Elijah ascended in a literal body to a literal place that is
just as real as Los Angeles, London, or Algiers! The Bible also teaches that
heaven will be a place of beauty. It is described in the Bible as “a building
of God”-“a city”-“a better country”-“an inheritance”-“a glory.”
The Bible also indicates that heaven will be a place of
great understanding and knowledge of things that we never learned down here.
Thought for today:
Do I or can I envision a better place outside of my own understanding?
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