Reality of heaven and the hazardous path to it Part 15

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In the previous study we learned about New Jerusalem. The old earthly Jerusalem is going to be the capital city of the earthly millennial kingdom of Lord Jesus, This was the place where Lord Jesus, the Saviour of the world was crucified. This was the place where King Solomon built the magnificent Temple of God. This was also the place where Abraham, the father of living faith was ready to sacrifice his son in implicit obedience to God’s command, and where our loving God spared him of the agony of killing his son. Even as I mention this incident, I remember also that this same God did not spare His only begotten Son from death and that too death on a cruel Roman cross. That is the love with which He loved the world.

Questions about the book of Revelation

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Question: I have problems in reading and understanding the book of Revelation. I know there are four schools of thought about the way it is interpreted. Various churches have their own ideas about it. I cannot love this book just because it talks about the Rapture and the like; it is God’s business anyhow; how can anyone interfere in His plan? Some leading theologians think that there may not be even such a thing as the Rapture. I have heard that Martin Luther did not believe in the book of Revelation, and so the Lutheran Church assigns only a low profile to this book. Please enlighten us in this matter.

I think this is a good question to answer because other members are also quite likely to have thoughts along these lines. It is good for this church to be well informed about this matter.

Reality of heaven and the hazardous path to it Part 9

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Unfamiliarity with heaven makes a believer a dull person spiritually. A spiritually smart person, on the other hand is spiritually active, studious, alert, and bubbling with joy as he engages in fruitful spiritual activities. For instance, the person who is as yet unaware of his brilliant success in his exams, which have just been announced, is worried and restless. But once he comes to know of it, he is no more in that gloomy state of mind, but rather is very busy now planning his next course of action with great enthusiasm.

In the same way the person who was once a natural man, but who has subsequently been transformed into a spiritual man, having become a brand new creation in Lord Jesus with his citizenship changed to that of the kingdom of God, is not dull and lethargic and engaged in all kinds of irrelevant and stupid activities.