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Where is the Kingdom of Heaven?

Answered by . February 18, 2011 - 4:52 pm

The Kingdom of Heaven will be on earth.  It is a heavenly kingdom because it comes from God who is in heaven.  The laws will be heavenly laws.  The king will be from heaven — Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God. There are many verses which describe the Kingdom being on earth.  Here […]

What will we do in heaven?

Answered by . December 5, 2010 - 9:46 am 2

Contrary to popular belief, the Christian hope is for Jesus to return to the earth (Acts 1:11), for him to raise the dead (1Thess. 4:16; 1Cor. 15:20-23; the resurrection) and make his faithful followers immortal (Rom. 2:6,16), and for the world to then be made perfect (Rom. 8:18-21). Put bluntly, people do not go to […]

If the Devil is used symbolically in the Bible as an evil force within mankind, why was there a need to eliminate it from heaven where there is no evil? (Rev 12:7-9)

Answered by . November 26, 2010 - 9:11 pm

Revelation is a book of symbols. Whenever we read Revelation we should be asking ourselves, “what do these symbols mean?” We should be cautious of assuming that some has the same meaning in Revelation as it might elsewhere. Elsewhere in the Bible, “heaven” often refers to the places where God dwells. In Revelation, it might […]

Does “heaven” stand for “God” in Matthew?

Answered by . April 8, 2010 - 10:29 pm

When Matthew uses the phrase “kingdom of heaven” he means exactly the same thing as the “kingdom of God”. However, I don’t know any other context where Matthew uses “heaven” in place of “God”, and he often uses heaven to mean heaven (e.g., Matthew 3:17; 5:12,16). Matthew is the only writer who uses “kingdom of […]

Where do we go after we die?

Answered by . November 15, 2009 - 1:01 am

When we die, we go to the grave.  People and animals both have a ‘breath of life’ which belongs to God, and returns to him at death, while the person or animal goes to the grave:  Genesis 2:7; 7:21-22; Job 34:14-15; Ecclesiastes 3:19-20.  No one went to heaven at death: John 3:13; Acts 2:29, 34-35. […]

In what sense did Jesus descend from heaven? (John 3:13)

Answered by . November 7, 2009 - 10:30 am

The whole of the verse in John 3:13 reports Jesus’ words to Nicodemus this way: “No one has ascended into heaven, except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.” The KJV adds the words, “which is in heaven.” Even without this addition it is clear that Jesus is not talking about his geographic […]

Will Capernaum go to heaven (Matthew 11:23)?

Answered by . November 7, 2009 - 10:13 am

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. (Matthew 11:23) When Jesus said, “And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven?”, he was not suggesting that […]