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Life After Death
“And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.” (Luke 16:9 NET).
The Lord is giving us a big hint about our Heavenly reception. He is saying that if you use your resources to win souls, you make friends, so when you die they will welcome you back in heaven.
This implies that there are no dead in heaven. And the Lord was very clear and direct about this in Luke 20:38
“For He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. For to Him all live.”
So we have established that there are no dead in heaven. So what do the living do in heaven? Again, the Lord was very clear in His parables about the kingdom of heaven.
To my understanding, the clearest way to know life after this is, Luke 23:43
“Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Then it is clear that our destination immediately after this life is Paradise. And you don’t have to be a theologian to know how Adam and Eve lived.
Two things will not be in this new Paradise that Jesus liberated for us, it will not be procreation and no tree of good and evil.
I believe that our earthly life is a rehearsal of our eternal life. Each of us is born with a purpose from God instilled in us. And conscious or unconscious we are good at it. But, since we are in a fallen world, we encounter many difficulties.
But, it is not so in the new Paradise, nothing has fallen there. Everything is holy, there is no place for evil. There is no resistance, there are no thorns, thistles or sweat. If you are now a cook, gardener or whatever, you have struggles to do it, but there it will be effortless, perfect and excellent!
“No unclean thing shall ever enter it, nor shall anyone who commits abomination or falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” (Rev.21:27 MEV).
Our loved ones are active, working under the rule of King Jesus. They have the perfect life that Adam and Eve had before the Fall. They are not little clouds floating, they are the same people as you knew them, but with a perfect body.
Our loved ones eat in heaven, some have to cook! And the Lord confirms it…
“I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.” (Matt.26:29MEV).
The most anticipated event in heaven is the marriage supper of the Lamb!
“Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.” (Revelation 19:9 MEV).
If your name is not written in His book, then you will not be invited. The good news is, right now, you can ask him to write it down!
Repeat this from your heart, “I acknowledge that I am a sinner and the Lord Jesus is my only hope. I receive Jesus as my Savior, please write my name in your book of life. And teach me to know you. Thanks you Father. Amen.
This is my Story! What’s Yours?
No Painful Memory in Heaven
After my firstborn died in 1991, I did a lot of research on Heaven and Paradise.
Because I am a thinker, I have developed a mind that remembers.
One morning, before I woke up, I was having a dream so vivid that it seemed like real life. I was moved by so many details and in the dream I thought that I would never forget what I was experiencing.
But the alarm woke me up and to my terrifying amazement, faster than the speed of light, the memory of the dream faded. I was bewildered and hurt that my mind betrayed me so cruelly. But it wasn’t a betrayal, it was an object lesson that the Lord was using to give me an amazing insight.
The Lord told me what happens when a child of His is taken to Paradise. He told me, “You have a hard time trying to remember the dream and you can’t. It is erased from your conscious mind, no human effort will bring it back.
He went on to say: “You see one of my child suffering, writhing in pain. When he dies, in a blink of an eye, all the suffering is erased from him, for all eternity. And there is no more memory of suffering”.
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”” (Revelation 21:4 NLT).
This is my Story! What’s yours?