Are not our thoughts upon Heaven more than ever before with all that our world is facing at this time? We are looking forward to that time when we will be taken Home to be with Jesus, but while here on earth we cannot know anything about Heaven apart from the Word of God. Here are some things revealed in God’s Word about Heaven.
These few paragraphs by no means exhaust the subject, but may be instructive and helpful to God’s people.
God is in Heaven. “Is not God in the height of heaven? …” (Job 22: 12), exclaimed Eliphaz.
God’s throne is in Heaven.“The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven …” (Psalm 11:4).
The Lord Jesus Christ is in Heaven. “…this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). “Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God …” (1 Peter 3:22).
Angels are in Heaven.“…angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him” (1 Peter 3:22). Of the angels, our Lord declared, “… for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 18:10).
Redeemed men and women are in Heaven. “… ye are come … to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect” (Hebrews 12:22-23).
The names of the Lord’s followers are in Heaven. “… rejoice, because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20).
Treasures are in Heaven “But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven …” (Matthew 6:20). ” … knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance” (Hebrews 10:34). God ” … hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ … To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:3-4).
Perfect knowledge is in Heaven. “… behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard … said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter” (Revelation 4:1). Paul “… was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter” (2 Corinthians 12:4). “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Corinthians 13:12).
Holiness is in Heaven.“And there shall be no more curse …” (Revelation 22:3). “For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God” (Ephesians 5:5). “For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness” (1 Thessalonians 4:7).
Eternal glory is in Heaven. “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Corinthians 4:17-5:1).
So, then, we “… wait for His Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thessalonians 1:10).