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Monthly Archives: February 2022
These devotionals are by no means comprehensive, but an appetizer for further study of the Word of God. The material I have written in these last four weeks merely scratches the surface of a topic that would require several thick volumes of commentary to cover fully.
We find comfort in the idea of our dead relatives and friends in Heaven in the company of loved ones who have died before. And it appears they will all be recognizable to us,…..
While some information about Heaven appears throughout the Bible, the book of Revelation gives us a fairly clear picture. Like Isaiah who was also given a vision of Heaven, John expressed in human terms something that could not possibly be understood outside the spiritual context in which he saw it. What he witnessed was prophetic and hectic in that his vision was of things to come. In the middle of all the end-of-the-world activity, however, snippets of Heaven in the…..
The Bible doesn’t give us much information about what we will be like in Heaven. However, in Luke 16:19-31 Jesus tells the story of two men who died which gives us some information about the spiritual realm which we will inhabit. This story is not prefaced with any designation, like “parable”, that would indicate it is anything but the truth.
In the story, the destitute and starving condition of a beggar named Lazarus is contrasted with the rich robes and…..
Someone recently asked me about what the Bible says regarding our glorified bodies in heaven. From 1 Corinthians 15:52-56, we know that “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [when] the trumpet shall sound, the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this corruptible [body] must put on incorruption and this mortal [body] must put on immortality. So when this corruptible [body] shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal [body] shall have put…..