[126]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – HEAVEN OPENS TO US
From a quick recollection heaven will open at least three times in the future (written by one who is still living). One of those will be the Rapture. One will be the Second Coming. The other one is when a saint passes from this life and into heaven into the presence of the Lord. Heaven opens to that one. If the Lord tarries we will all enter heaven that way, but I am confident in the prophetic studies that the Lord’s coming for the Church is very close.
This poem only mentions the Rapture in the last stanza (the word is not mentioned – only the fact). The rest of the poem is devoted to passing through “the door” of heaven to be with the Lord forever.
I want you to think about the words and take them on board as encouragement. Don’t be like some who are legalists and want to pick issues with words. Poems use descriptive language sometimes. Remember all the Psalms were actually poems put to music to be sung. All hymns and spiritual songs began with the lyrics.
I find it most comforting that Paul wrote this with God’s inspiration – {{2 Corinthians 5:6-8 “Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord - for we walk by faith, not by sight - we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be ABSENT FROM THE BODY AND TO BE AT HOME WITH THE LORD.”}}
I will give one more verse. Some see this verse in different ways, but for me, it talks about the glories of heaven. {{1 Corinthians 2:9-10 but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.” To us God revealed them through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God”}}
God has not revealed the specifics but the context of it all. God bless those who read.
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HEAVEN OPENS TO US
Taken from this body to be present with the Lord;
There is a time that’s coming that snaps earth’s binding cord.
What a revelation entrusted of glory above,
At that precise time, when we embrace Redeeming Love.
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Not for a moment can our minds understand those scenes,
When heaven opens and we’ll comprehend what it means,
In the presence of the Lord, who loved us unto death.
It’s the Saviour we’ll see when we first draw heaven’s breath.
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Beyond compare are the wonders our eyes will behold,
For human minds can not conceive what things will unfold.
Eye has not seen nor ear heard the things that are prepared
By God for those who love Him, whose Name they have declared.
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Human eyes could not contemplate that for a moment,
But what the pure ears will hear will be always constant –
Angelic praise to the Lord God Almighty who reigns;
The glorious worship of heaven, that nothing chains.
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Wonders great we will see, and great wonders we will hear,
When in heaven we look on our Lord with love, not fear,
To behold the Lamb of Heaven, the One who is praised,
And we’ll share in that magnificence when we are raised.
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No imagination can comprehend what’s ahead,
But the Spirit convinces us through what Paul had said,
“The third heaven” is so beyond our poor feeble minds,
That in that place, inexpressible words each one finds.
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Lord, hasten the day when You call us away to You;
When the Church is caught up to her Lord; He who is True!
Heaven will open unto us to reveal His light.
What glory, what joy what delight will burst on our sight.
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18 December 2021 R Ferguson Metre = 13 throughout A-A-B-B