HEAVEN'S CAPITAL CITY, NEW JERUSALEM (31 OF 33)
by Jim Perdue
Scripture: Revelation 21:9-27
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Heaven's Capital City, New Jerusalem (31 of 33)
Series: Revelation
Jim Perdue
Revelation 21:9-27
Today, we continue our series through the book of Revelation. *If you enjoy reading, you know that the last part of the book is a very important part. You wouldn't read a book and get close to the end without finishing the book. You want to know the conclusion; you want to know what's going to happen. The last part of a book is very important.*
Well, this isn't just the last two chapters of Revelation, but it's the final scene on the stage of human history. The last two chapters of Revelation are the most detailed account and description of heaven in the entire Bible. READ TEXT
*George Bernard Shaw once complained, ''Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seashore.'' And you know, the old curmudgeon was right! Remember, he was talking about ''heaven, as conventionally conceived.'' And how is heaven conventionally conceived? Look at most movies about heaven and you'll get the picture: Saints who have been transformed into angels with wings and white robes, sitting on clouds and playing their golden harps--all of which is indeed conventional, inane, dull, useless, and miserable. But of course that's not really heaven!*
*The reason a day in heaven is harder to describe than a day at the seashore is that heaven is a wholly different plane of experience than the seashore. As Peter Toon writes in Heaven and Hell, heaven is a reality which is '''outside' the space and time we know'' and ''must be described in language which of necessity exists for communication within our space and time.'' And that's the problem. Imagine trying to explain the concepts of relativity and quantum physics to a child in the second grade. Or trying to explain the technological marvels of the late twentieth century ...
Series: Revelation
Jim Perdue
Revelation 21:9-27
Today, we continue our series through the book of Revelation. *If you enjoy reading, you know that the last part of the book is a very important part. You wouldn't read a book and get close to the end without finishing the book. You want to know the conclusion; you want to know what's going to happen. The last part of a book is very important.*
Well, this isn't just the last two chapters of Revelation, but it's the final scene on the stage of human history. The last two chapters of Revelation are the most detailed account and description of heaven in the entire Bible. READ TEXT
*George Bernard Shaw once complained, ''Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seashore.'' And you know, the old curmudgeon was right! Remember, he was talking about ''heaven, as conventionally conceived.'' And how is heaven conventionally conceived? Look at most movies about heaven and you'll get the picture: Saints who have been transformed into angels with wings and white robes, sitting on clouds and playing their golden harps--all of which is indeed conventional, inane, dull, useless, and miserable. But of course that's not really heaven!*
*The reason a day in heaven is harder to describe than a day at the seashore is that heaven is a wholly different plane of experience than the seashore. As Peter Toon writes in Heaven and Hell, heaven is a reality which is '''outside' the space and time we know'' and ''must be described in language which of necessity exists for communication within our space and time.'' And that's the problem. Imagine trying to explain the concepts of relativity and quantum physics to a child in the second grade. Or trying to explain the technological marvels of the late twentieth century ...
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