Transcript HEAVEN - Arkansas-Louisiana Youth Ministries

Heaven
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The 7th study in the series.
Studies written by William Carey.
Presentation by Michael Salzman.
All texts from the New King James version.
All rights reserved.
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Heaven
• How many heavens are there?
• II Corinthians 12:2
• I know a man in Christ who fourteen years
ago, -- whether in the body I do not know, or
whether out of the body I do not know, God
knows -- such a one caught up to the third
heaven.
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Heaven
• Since there is a third heaven, there must be
a first and a second. What are these three
heavens?
1. The aerial heaven where the birds fly
(Rev.19:17) where the clouds form and from
which the rain and snow come. This is the
belt of air which reaches from the surface of
the earth up into the sky.
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Heaven
This first heaven will pass away some day
and God will make a new, pure atmosphere;
a new first heaven to surround the new
earth which He will make.
(II Peter 3:10,13 - Rev.21:1)
2- The starry heaven where the sun, moon and
stars move in their orbits. (Ps. 19:1-4)
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Heaven
3- The third heaven is Paradise where the
throne of God is and where Jesus is now.
• II Corinthians 12:4
• how he was caught up into paradise and
heard inexpressible words, which it is not
lawful for a man to utter.
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Heaven
• What is Jesus doing in Heaven now?
• John 14:2,3
• “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to
prepare a place for you.
3- “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come again and receive you to Myself; that
where I am, there ye may be also.
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Heaven
• What is this place prepared by Jesus?
• Hebrews 11:16, 10
• But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly
country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be
called their God, for He has prepared a city for
them.
• For he waited for the city which has
foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
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Heaven
• This place that Jesus has prepared is the
City of God or the New Jerusalem. This
city is described in the last two chapters of
the Bible.
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Heaven
• How big is the New Jerusalem?
• Revelation 21:10-18
• And he carried me away in the Spirit to a
great and high mountain, and showed me the
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out
of heaven from God,
• having the glory of God. Her light was like a
most stone, like a jasper stone, clear as
crystal.
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Heaven
12- Also she had a great and high wall, with
twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates,
and names written them, which are the names
of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13- three gates on the east, three gates on the
north, three gates on the south, and three
gates on the west.
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Heaven
14- Now the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and on them were the names of
the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15- And he who talked with me had a gold reed
to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
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Heaven
16- The city laid out as a square; its length is
as great as its breadth. And he measured
the city with the reed: twelve thousand
furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height
are equal.
17- Then he measured its wall: one hundred
and forty-four cubits, according to the
measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
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18- The construction of its wall was of jasper;
and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
• This New Jerusalem is 12,000 furlongs or
1,500 miles in circumference, or 375 miles
on each side. It contains 140,625 square
miles. It would be as large as three average
size states.
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It has a wall of Jasper 216 feet high; 12
foundations of 12 precious stones; 12 gates
each made from one solid pearl; streets of
gold, and mansions of gold, for the saints.
Through Jesus you may lay claim to the
mansion Jesus has made for you.
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Heaven
• What will it be like to live in this city?
• Revelation 21:4
• And God will wipe away every tear from their
eyes; there shall be no more death, nor
sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more
pain, for the former things have passed
away.
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Heaven
• It is a city where everyone will have a
perfect immortal body: where there will be
no sickness, trouble, or death; where His
people will be perfectly happy through all
eternity.
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Heaven
• Where is the New Jerusalem going to be
located?
• Revelation 21:1-3
• Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth had
passed away. Also there was no more sea.
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Heaven
2- Then I, John saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband.
3- And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and He will dwell with them, and they shall be
His people, and God Himself will be with them,
and be their God.
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Heaven
• This New Jerusalem will be the capital of
the new earth. The New Jerusalem is now
in the third heaven. The saints will all go up
to that city when Jesus comes and will reign
with Him there for 1,000 years. At the end
of that 1,000 years, this earth will be made
over into the new earth, free from all sin
and sinners.
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Heaven
The New Jerusalem will come to rest on this
new earth as it’s grand capital. With
Christ, the saints will reign forever over this
city and the earth made new.
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Heaven
• What must we do to be able to enter into
the city of New Jerusalem?
• Revelation 22:14
• Blessed are those who do His
commandments, that they may have the right
to the tree of life, and may enter through the
gates into the city.
• We must keep all of God’s Commandments.
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Heaven
• What will we be like when we get to New
Jerusalem?
• Philippians 3:20, 21
• For our citizenship is in heaven, from which
we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ,
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Heaven
21- who will transform our lowly body that it
may be conformed to His glorious body,
according to the working by which He is able
even to subdue all things to Himself.
• We will each have a glorious spiritual body,
just as Jesus has. ( I John3:2)(I Cor. 15:44)
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Heaven
• How will we know each other in Heaven?
• John 20:11-16
• But Mary stood outside by the tomb
weeping, and as she wept she stooped
down and looked into the tomb.
12- And she saw two angels in white sitting,
the one at the head, and the other at the
feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
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Heaven
13- Then they said to her, “Woman, why
weeping?” She said to them, “Because
they have taken away my Lord, and I
know not where they have laid Him.”
14- Now when she had said this, she
turned around and saw Jesus standing
there and did not know that it was
Jesus.
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Heaven
15- Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are
you weeping? Whom are you
seeking?” She, supposing Him to be
the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You
have carried Him away, tell me where
You have laid Him, and I will take Him
away.”
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Heaven
16- Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She
turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!”
(which is to say, Teacher).
• Just as Mary knew Jesus by His VOICE
after His resurrection, SO we will
KNOW our friends in heaven by their
voices.
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Heaven
• In what other ways will we know each
other in Heaven?
• John 20:27, 28
• Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your
finger here, and look at My hands; and
reach your hand here, and put it into
My side, Do not be unbelieving, but
believing.”
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28- And Thomas answered and said to
Him, “My Lord and my God.”
• Just as Thomas recognized Jesus by
His APPEARANCE, SO we will
recognize our friends in heaven.
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Heaven
• Are there any other ways we will know
each other in Heaven?
• Matthew 17:3, 4
• And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared
to them, talking with Him.
4- Then answered Peter and said to
Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be
here:
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Heaven
if you wish, let us make here three
tabernacles: one for You, one for
Moses, and one for Elijah.”
• Just as the disciples on the mount of
transfiguration recognized Moses and
Elijah, men whom they had never seen
before, men who had lived on earth
hundreds of years before their time,
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yet, by spiritual powers of cognition,
they knew them. (Moses had been
raised by Christ and taken to heaven,
see Jude 9)
SO with our glorious spiritual bodies,
we will have powers of recognition and
cognition to know millions of people in
heaven that we have never seen before.
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Heaven
• I Corinthians 13:12
• For now we see through a mirror, dimly,
but then face to face. Now I know in
part, but then I shall know just as I also
am known.
• We will know each other fully then, as
God knows us individually now!
HEAVEN
• Are you looking forward to the Coming
of Jesus Christ, so that we can go to
Heaven with him to live?