Heaven (Everlasting paradise) Part 11

INTRO: It is some time since I did the last message in this series on heaven. After our holidays I looked at my outline and I think it is the poorest outline I have ever preached from. So let me take some time to review where we are. I said first of all, that when you consider what the Bible has to say about the future, the most important matter is one's method of Bible interpretation. We said that the best method of Bible interpreting prophetic passages, the only method that does the Bible justice, is the normal, literal method. We do not spiritualize prophetic passages.

Second, I said that usually when we speak of ‘heaven' we are speaking from an amillenial viewpoint. That is the view that says after we die, if we are Christians, we go to heaven and we are with God forever. From the normal literal approach to Bible interpretation, that is incorrect. The fact of the matter is that God remakes the present heaven and the present earth, and there is a new heaven and a new earth and God Almighty comes down to dwell with man forever. Let me show you this by reading just a few brief verses from Revelation 21 (read 1-3).