The Reality of Heaven

Heaven is real; it is a literal place. Jesus said, “If it were not so, I would have told you.” Heaven is a country, with a capital city, New Jerusalem. Of the old patriarchs we are told, “...they sought a country,” and of Abraham it says, “He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.” And after a lifetime searching for it, upon taking his final breath on this earth, he found it.

The same God who made heaven, made the earth. There is no reason for “spiritualizing” the first while “literalizing” the second. One is the type of the other. When God describes heaven He uses the things of the earth, things we are familiar with, to depict heaven. God mingles heaven with earth. Read the Lord’s Prayer if you doubt this. Heaven is not a different place, but a better place, “But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly... for he hath prepared for them a city.”

The paganistic Eskimo believed in a future land where he would eat his whale blubber to the full; the materialistic Egyptians were buried with their treasures, so they could enjoy them in the next life; and the heathenistic Indians looked forward to the, “Happy Hunting Grounds” at their death.

And we Christians, who have and know the truth, are awaiting a place known to us as “The Father’s House”. No child of God need worry about adjusting upon their arrival, as if they’ll be in a strange place, you’re going to be right at “HOME!”