What Happens When You Die? (Part 5b) The Eternal State, I Thessalonians 4:13-18

The participants

§ Those

§ We

§ The rest

The purpose of the teaching, v. 13

§ To give mental orientation

§ To give emotional orientation

15 Features of our Heavenly Home, Revelation 21:1-22:5

The eternal state of the believer is described in terms of

§ Place

§ Association

15 features

1. The arrival of the heavenly city, vv. 1-2

2. The character of God’s heavenly city, vv. 3-4

3. The builder of the heavenly city, vv. 5-6

4. The inhabitants, vv. 7-8

5. The glory of it, vv. 9-11

6. The structure of it, vv. 12-14

7. The dimensions of it, vv. 15-17

8. The beauty of it, vv. 18-21

9. The temple in it, vv. 21-22

10. The light of it, vv. 23-24

11. The access to it, vv. 25-27

12. The river of it, v. 22:1

13. The tree in it 22:2

14. The freedom of it 22:3

15. The fellowship of it 22:4-5

o Radiance

o Reign