Posts Tagged ‘heaven’
Will I still be a mother in heaven?
Question: Will I still be a mother in heaven? I know that we won’t be married in heaven and that we will have some recognition of others that are there with us, but if I am in heaven and so is my daughter will we still be mother and daughter? Answer: To be a mother…
Read MoreThe Boy Who Didn’t Come Back from Heaven
by Wayne Greeson The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven came out in 2010 and sold more than 1 million copies and spent months on the New York Times’ bestseller list. Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son Alex were driving home from church in Huntsville, Ohio, on a Sunday morning in November 2004, when they…
Read MoreHeaven Will Be Even Better
by Roy Diestelkamp In song songbooks by many congregations is the old hymn: “For The Beauty Of The Earth.” The first verse says: “For the beauty of the earth, For the beauty of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies, Lord of all,…
Read MoreHow many souls will fit in heaven?
Answer: All who are going. In describing those in heaven, John said, “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands” (Revelations 5:11). John is saying, imagine the biggest…
Read MoreIs the reference to a new earth given so we can understand heaven better?
Question: The new heaven and the new earth in Revelation is being taken literally by my friend. I know it’s referring to the spiritual earth. My grandson and I studied this scripture last night (Revelation 21:1-2). He brought up the fact that in Rome, the Christians were oppressed and God is promising them, in this…
Read MoreWill faith and hope still exist in heaven?
Question: I have a question from I Corinthians 13 about faith, hope, and love with the greatest of these being love. I have led public prayers in which I prayed something like this “to bless us with faith, hope, and love. For one day we will close our eyes in this world and sleep, but…
Read MoreDo you know anything concerning the eastern gate in reference to heaven?
Question: Do you have any information concerning “the eastern gate” with reference to heaven? The reason I ask is that a couple of years ago I heard a preacher say as he was closing out a gospel meeting, “If I don’t see you before I’ll meet you at the eastern gate.” I wonder if it…
Read MoreDo people physically go to heaven or hell?
Question: Where is paradise? Is it above the earth or below? When Jesus was raised, how can he be lifted up in the flesh? By flesh, will a man go to heaven or hell? When Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus in what form did they appear, flesh or spirit? Where is third heaven? After…
Read MoreAre there degrees of rewards and punishment?
Question: Are there degrees of punishment and rewards after the judgment? In II Peter 2:20-21 Peter states, “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had…
Read MoreShall We Know One Another in Heaven?
by Hoyt Houchen via Guardian of Truth XXXV: 20, pp. 623-624 October 17, 1991 Man is confronted with many mysteries, thus causing him to ponder on many questions. He is made to wonder about death, immortality, what is beyond and shall we know each other in heaven. The subject of future recognition in heaven that is discussed…
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