Resources by Topic: Heaven

We will have an eternal perspective, we will know that God has been just in his judgments, and will not be plagued by doubt.

It is not forever—we will be reunited in Heaven and never have to worry about leaving each other again, and my dad will be able to walk by me with no pain.

Eventually all believers will have resurrection bodies (Job 19:25-27; Is. 26:19; Dan. 12:2-3; 1 Cor. 15:12-58; Phil. 3:21; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 20:4-6).

Scripture gives no indication of a “memory wipe” that will cause us not to recognize our loved ones and others we’ve known.

When a Christian dies, he or she enters into what theologians call the intermediate state, a transitional period between our past lives on Earth and our future resurrection to life on the New Earth.

The Bible treats this judgment of believers with great sobriety. It’s not a meaningless formality, but a monumental event in which things of eternal consequence are instituted.

Question from a reader: Isaiah 65:20 says “he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.” It sounds as if Isaiah is saying that in the new heavens and new earth people will die. How do you interpret this text?

Only the elect can be saved; and, no one who is elect ever reaches death not having responded to God’s gift of salvation.

In this interview with Lee Strobel, Randy Alcorn discusses the reality of Heaven.

In this video clip, Randy Alcorn talks about what we can learn about Heaven while on this Earth.

In this interview with Lee Strobel on Faith Under Fire, Randy Alcorn talks about what being face-to-face with God will be like.

In this one and half minute video clip, Randy Alcorn talks about how God's original plan for the earth is still His plan. God has never abandoned his original plan that righteous human beings will inhabit and rule the earth.

In this interview with former NFL coach Joe Gibbs, Randy Alcorn talks about how as Christians, we tend to disassociate our lives on earth from the life to come. God, however, sees a direct connection between them.

Randy Alcorn talks about how the New Earth will be the old earth, made new.