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Question: What is Heaven?
Take a few minutes to discuss - let students give their ideas
What is heaven?
Take a few minutes to discuss
The Bible uses the word “Heaven” a lot, and it has a lot of different meanings:
Heaven - the literal sky
The very first verse in Scripture speaks of God creating “the heavens,” the literal sky and and those celestial bodies visible through it—sun, moon, stars (cf.
; ).
“Every bird of the heavens” is brought to Adam to be named ().
The people of Israel are “numerous as the stars of heaven” ().
Psalm 8:3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Heaven - God’s home
But not much later in the book of Genesis, “heaven” seems to be something more, something even higher than the stars.
…called to him from heaven...
The Lord, the God of heaven...
Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven...
Jesus is talking to Nicodemus about what is involved in becoming a child of God, and describes himself as having descended from heaven...
Heaven - The home of angels
Micah saw a vision of the Lord in heaven, sitting on His throne and He was surrounded by angelic beings
Same with Isaiah
Heaven seems to be a fairly crowded place so far...
Heaven - The future home of followers of Jesus
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The Old Testament only hints at what Jesus openly states: heaven is also the future abode of the redeemed.
Christ tells his soon-to-be-persecuted followers, “Your reward is great in heaven” ().
He urges them to “lay up … treasures in heaven” (), where presumably they will be able to access those treasures—but thieves, moth, and rust won’t (cf.
; ).
“In my Father’s house are many rooms,” Jesus tells his disciples, “… and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also” ().
Indeed, “many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven” ().
To go to heaven is to “enter life” () and to “enter the joy of [the] Master” ().
Paul says, “We have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” ().
Even now in the already, “our citizenship is in heaven” ().
Peter tells Christians they have “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you” ().
Believers rightly look forward to this day: “in this tent [i.e., our bodies] we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling” ().
That dwelling will itself be physical, for we are promised resurrection ().
The Old Testament only hints at what Jesus openly states: heaven is also the future abode of the redeemed.
Christ tells his soon-to-be-persecuted followers, “Your reward is great in heaven” ().
He urges them to “lay up … treasures in heaven” (), where presumably they will be able to access those treasures—but thieves, moth, and rust won’t (cf.
; ).
“In my Father’s house are many rooms,” Jesus tells his disciples, “… and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also” ().
Indeed, “many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven” ().
To go to heaven is to “enter life” () and to “enter the joy of [the] Master” ().
Paul says, “We have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” ().
Even now in the already, “our citizenship is in heaven” ().
Peter tells Christians they have “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you” ().
Believers rightly look forward to this day: “in this tent [i.e., our bodies] we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling” ().
That dwelling will itself be physical, for we are promised resurrection ().
Heaven - a place both of rest and of work
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You may be surprised to find that we’re going to have jobs in heaven
Jesus seems to indicate in the parable of the talents that we’ll have jobs:
But this is the part I really wanted to show you.
The part I’m really excited about:
Gen 2
What do you see in these 3 verses?
The Lord
a garden planted by God
the man God had made
trees for food
The tree of life
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
a river
Is this a good place?
Why?
What happens if Adam eats of the trees?
What is the tree of life?
What happens if they eat from the tree of life?
We don’t know at this point.
The bible doesn’t make it clear, but Moses includes it here.
This is a little mysterious...
Any ideas why Moses included it here?
What happens if Adam eats of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
What happened?
Now, jump ahead to vv 22-24
Did they die?
Ok, so what’s going on here?
What do you see?
man has become like God in the sense that he now understands that there is good and evil in the universe
What do we learn about the tree of life?
if he eats of it he lives forever...
What does that mean?
Why would that be bad?
God’s Justice
Now, turn in your Bible to
Revelation 22:1-5
Rev 22:
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