Resources by Topic: Heaven

When we die we go to be with Christ (II Cor. 5:8) which is wonderful. But we are still incomplete, in a pre-resurrected state, anticipating Christ's return to earth, and our resurrections. The place we'll live forever will be where God comes down to dwell with us, on the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-3).

Based on scriptural evidence, I believe the answer is "yes."

The answer is yes, at least to some extent.

In this video clip with Donald Miller, Randy Alcorn talks about temptation and Heaven. Originally filmed by Convergence.

In this clip with Donald Miller, Randy Alcorn discusses Heaven and answers the question, "Should God have done more?" Originally filmed by Convergence.

In this video with Donald Miller, Randy Alcorn discusses Heaven, and specifically about the incarnation of Christ. Originally filmed by Convergence.

In this video clip with Donald Miller, Randy Alcorn talks about Heaven being both God's plan and our hope as we live our lives now. Originally filmed by Convergence. 

Randy Alcorn answers questions about Heaven, such as "How have we lost a Biblical view of Heaven?" in this interview with Donald Miller. Originally filmed by Convergance.

Since Enoch and Elijah did not die, but were taken into Heaven, did they receive glorified bodies? (I’ve also recently read accounts that this is a misinterpretation of Scripture: Did they really not die?)

In Gen. 2:9 God placed the tree of life and the tree of good and evil in the center of the garden.

Unlike God and the angels, who are in essence spirits though capable of inhabiting bodies (John 4:24; Heb. 1:14), man is by nature both spiritual and physical (Gen. 2:7).

As a child, my favorite part of waking up on Christmas morning was the first waking realization that it was Christmas, which was the best day of the year, even in our nonchristian family.  

"When [the Lamb] opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?' Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed" (Revelation 6:9-11).  

All these questions are addressed in Randy Alcorn's book Heaven (Tyndale, 2004). Most of them have clear, though not comprehensive, biblical answers. The others that don't have clear answers can be intelligently speculated upon, based on what Scripture does tell us.