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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,…..
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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…..
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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…..
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Old and New Testament Parallels
Jeremiah 29:11-13 was a message to the Children of Israel, but it carries over to us, as well, to the New Testament Church: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And you shall seek me and…..