![]() John doesn’t say that we will go “up” to heaven he says that heaven will “come down” to us. While this is, in fact, quite a wonderful vision, I think that when we see it only as a description of heaven, we are missing the point. God’s people will see him face to face and they will reign with him forever and ever. The river of the water of life will flow through heaven, and the tree of life will grow on each side. There will be light twenty-four hours a day, even without a sun or a moon, because the glory of God provides the light. We read about God being with us, wiping away every tear from our eyes, in a place where there will be no more pain, no more death, nor more mourning or crying, because there will never be any reason to cry. ![]() I know that I use it – or at least a part of it – in almost every funeral or memorial service that I have conducted. Here in Revelation 21 and 22, we find a passage that is often read at funeral services to provide comfort to grieving families. There would be streets of gold and gates made out of pearls, mansions and angel songs. And heaven was always talked about as a place that anybody and everybody would want to go to. We were to follow the example of Jesus as his faithful disciples, to practice those things that Jesus did, so that we could go to heaven and be with him forever. ![]() ![]() When I was younger, I thought that the whole point of the Christian faith was to live a life good enough to get into heaven. ![]()
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