WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN?

SCRIPTURES TO HELP YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR ULTIMATE DESTINY

1. When did Christ return to heaven?

John 20:16, Luke 24:38

2. WHERE DID Elijah, Enoch, and Moses go?

2 Kings 2:11, Hebrews 11:5, Genesis 5:24), Matthew 17:3, John 3:13

a. Where did Elijah go?

2 Chronicles 21:12-15. , 2 Chronicles 21:18-20,

3. Where did Enoch go?

Hebrews 11:5, Hebrews 11:13,16Earth?

Enoch’s translation

But what about his translation in Hebrews 11:5?!

4. What about The Transfiguration

Matthew 17:1-9, Mark 9:2-10, Luke 9:28-36). (Matthew 17:9).

5. Will Everybody die? 1 Thessalonians 4:17

6 . What will we be like in Heaven?

a. We will have real “spiritual” bodies with physical

substance 1 Corinthians15:42-44, Philippians 3:20-21

  1. We will have intellect and emotions Rev. 6:10,

Rev.7:10, Rev. 18, Luke 15:7,10).

  1. We will have rest from our labors on earth (Rev.

14:13

  1. We’ll eat and drink at a table with Matt. 8:11, Psalm

23:5

  1. There will be no marriage in Heaven:Matthew 22:
  2. We will have a new and sinless body and spirit. In 1 Cor. 15,

g. We will have intellect and emotions (Rev. 6:10, Luke

15:7,10).

  1. We will have rest from our labors on earth (Rev.

14:13

I. There will be no marriage in Heaven:Matthew 22:29

  1. We will have a new and sinless body and spirit. In 1 Corinthians 15.

What happens to us immediately after death? Lazarus and the thief on the Cross went to Paradise, not heaven.

. Luke 16:22-26, Rev. 6:9

1. Where does Hades fit in? Luke 16:23, Revelation 20:14

2. There is immediate conscious existence after death, both in heaven and hell. Luke 16:22; Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 5:8; Rev. 6:9-11; Phil. 1:23

3. There will be 2 resurrections and 2 deaths for some"Revelation 20:4-6

4. All will be judged Revelations 20:12-15Revelation 2:11,

"The second death" is used four times in the Bible and refers to the Lake of Fire, the gehenna Hell.
5. Paradise was merged with heaven - Luke 16:22-26, Ephesians 4:9,Revelation 1:18, Luke 23:43, John 20:17, II Corinthians 12:2-4,

The five distinct phases of heaven are:.

1. The pre-sin heaven, before Satan fell (Is. 14:12-15), apparently taking a third of the angels with him (Rev. 12:4).

2. The Old Testament heaven of Paradise or “Abraham’s bosom” ( Luke 16:22), which was then one of two compartments of Hades, “the place of the dead,” the other compartment being Hell.

3. The current post-resurrection-of-Christ heaven, where Paradise seems to have been relocated from Hades, and where believers now come directly into his presence at death (Eph. 4:8-10; 2 Cor. 5:8).

4. The millennial kingdom, where Christ rules over the earth with his redeemed (Rev. 20:14).

5. The Heaven still to come after the final judgment, the New Jerusalem in the new heavens and new earth (Rev. 21-22).

The resurrection of believers has not yet occurred, and will not until just prior to the new heavens and earth (Rev. 20:12-15).