Requirements For Going To Heaven

WATCH THIS:- Mansion is a dwelling place CORRECT – 1 Corinthians 6:19 says “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own”. So, when He says many mansions in my father’s house we are the mansion because we are the dwelling place of the Holy Ghost – Christ in us the hope of Glory.

Misconception: - Streets of Gold and Gates of Pearls – We already established that this is describing the Holy City the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21. Revelation 21:9-10, you will find that this chapter is describing the bride of Christ, the church, rather than heaven. It is a symbolic description of the glory of Christ’s bride, and God’s presence within. This is heaven on earth when God comes and establishes the Kingdom of God on earth like it was originally supposed to be in the Garden of Eden.

Misconception: - That the present Heaven, is where Christians go when we die, is the same place we will live forever. In fact, when we die, we go to be with Christ, which is wonderful, but we are incomplete, in a pre-resurrected state, anticipating Christ’s return to earth, and our resurrections. 2 Corinthians 5:6 says, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord”. The place we’ll live forever will be where God is and when He comes down to dwell with us, on the New Earth and the New Heaven in the New Jerusalem Revelation 21:1-3.

Misconception: - There will be nothing to do, and it’ll be boring and predictable. The Bible doesn’t say everything that we will be doing in Heaven, but it does give several references to things that we will be doing. I found this to be very interesting in my studies - In Luke 23:43, Jesus declared to the thief on the cross, "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise". The word Jesus used for "paradise" is paradeisos which means "a park, that is, specifically an Eden a place of future happiness, paradise". Paradeisos is the Greek word taken from the Hebrew word pardes which means "a park: - forest, orchard" (Strong’s Concordance). Jesus said, "Today you shall be with me "en paradeisos," not "en nephele" which is Greek for “in clouds.” The point is that Jesus picked and used the word for "a park." Not just any park but "the paradise of God" or park of God which for us will be a place of future happiness. Does this sound like a boring place? When you think of a park, do you think of boredom?

The Bible states we will worship the Lord. Revelation 5:13 shares, "And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, 'To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!'" This will include worship alongside angels, who cry Holy, Holy, Holy night and day Revelation 4:8 as well as believers from all ages and locations, from every nation and people on earth.