Greetings,
Houses in heaven? Please show me where. (sorry for being too lazy to find out myself) [ I'm not arguing the point, by the way]
What will we need houses for? Especially if we consider why we use them now.
Are we being a bit carnal in our thinking and putting Heaven in our own little boxes?
No comment about the yodeling?
and, YES ! how wonderful it will be brother!!
thank you for the encouragement,
Bless you ....><>
@Br. Bear
First may I add...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV2011)
11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
I have no comment regarding the yodelling yet, trying to find time to watch it! God's speed I will get there.
Houses in Heaven
The verse we all know, must be included first, as we know it is read at funerals over and over again, to the saved and to the lost who think they will go to heaven.
Although the KJV translates and uses mansions, many other versions refer here to rooms.
John 14:1-6 (NKJV)
1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2
In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am,
there you may be also.
4 And where I go you know, and the way you know."
5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:1-4 (NIV2011)
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.
2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
How many rooms will there be?
Revelation 7:9-12 (NKJV)
9 After these things I looked, and behold,
a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
10 and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation
belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
11 All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
12 saying: "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might,
Be to our God forever and ever. Amen."
We will receive an inheritance in heaven.
1 Peter 1:3-5 (NKJV)
3 Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
We will have friends in heaven (Those who are Saved and whose names are in the Book of Life and the Lamb)
Luke 16:9 (NKJV)
9 And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.
We will have rest in heaven.
Revelation 14:13 (NKJV)
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.' " "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them."
They shall build houses and plant vineyards in heaven. They shall not labour in vain. All things are restored
Isaiah 65:21-25 (NKJV)
21
They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not build and another inhabit; They shall not plant and another eat; For as the days of a tree,
so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain, Nor bring forth children for trouble; For they
shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, And their offspring with them.
24 "It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, The lion shall eat straw like the ox, And dust
shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," Says the LORD.
What a wonderful place the New Heaven/New Earth will be, thanks be to God for all the glimpses He has given us. And verse 25, the wolf and the lamb, the lion and the ox, only God can do this as He created them all, another glimpse of animals all getting on together is in the Ark, with Noah and his wife, his sons and their wife's, all in the ark together. Peace of God beyond our understanding, all we have to do is take Him at His Word, and believe as little children.
2 Peter 3:13 (NKJV)
13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV2011)
11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.