R1385 The Bible and Heaven

Into any instances the book of Revelation brings about fear, but it doesn't have much of an God's word, together with Dr. Wilson. This is the hurting word featuring the Bible-based reading of Dr. Wilson, well-known author, evangelist, pastor, and today as we take our Bibles open to Revelation 21 we talking about the Bible and haven't open the word know that were to be available for you, not just narrowing the broadcast for 24 hours a day. Keyboard keyboard on our website@dewonline.org EW online.org.

This phone number 866899 word 866-899-9673 really would love to talk and speak and pray with you ballots open God's word to Revelation 21 with our teacher and pastor Dr. Don Wilton Revelation chapter 21 you need your Bibles to the me just say this before I read to you.

Speak to you this morning on the subject. The Bible and haven't, what is the Bible have to say about him. What does the Bible say Lost Creek I preached a message entitled, what would God say to us today and our phones will be ringing off the hook. It's always the operative question a lot of people have opinions about him and and if we were to take a survey here in the United States for that matter around the world and say tell us what you think about heaven going to get every kind of opinion.

One can possibly imagine. Some don't believe it. I just can't believe it else I get a life.

When you die, it's over. I'm glad I'm not in that category you not say let's see about how many years left. You know minutes just blank some just don't believe it's some sort of believe the basic well you know maybe if possibly, but I fall into the third category are some absolutely believe friends we living in a very rapidly changing and deteriorating world. While the questions I'm getting frequently Austins media not know you getting the same as Jesus, getting ready to come back. Water subject I'm trying to resist the urge to speak to that subject. I'm going to cite you.

It's looking very much more and more like the time is getting and I'm not just saying that even though nobody knows that. But if you look at the signs of the times.

Think about marriage, you might say to me who's more important a mother or father. I'm going to say both you show me a family where the father is weak and I will show you consequences that reverberate through the family America today is weak. We are a week insipid nation. We are not prepared to lead.

We call ourselves a superpower, but we certainly don't act like one. And what we export to the wound is sending a message to the world we export our brand of democracy with telling the world with each other kill one another hate one another, watch pornography to mean everybody in the bubble walkway telling the world is getting God out of everything you possibly can. Just look at I will watch out world.

The world is doing will no longer is concerned, all bothered by we, America would go to weak daddy in this world right now. Weak father and the family is falling apart. The Giza legal you don't you don't lead get out of the leading business you gonna be a father not get married just don't bring children into the world just living your own environment is nothing wrong with that. So what we've got today is we've got a collapsing euro regardless of old.

The opinions related to things going on your is becoming now and increasing the first tile ground for the rise of antichrist. All your needs is a strong man, someone will rise up and say I'll fix you follow me there all falling over each other that will hold each other accountable but not willing to allow each other to become strong to go to first tile seedbed your collapsing markets cash economy you go to ramp up of the anti-Israel movement in the United States to the best of our ability secure and say nothing and do nothing.

In fact, the very opposite. We just simply put out on around the adversaries of Israel and give them billions of dollars to rebuild their arsenals. So heaven becomes a very important subject.

Just a couple things. Now I'm going to save this for this is a huge subject. Revelation 21 at the end of the Bible is God's announcement concerning the final picture of heaven. This is what the Bible says in Revelation 21 then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had tossed away and the sea was no more. By the way, the word see is the word for separation. What is the seed C separates us from England right you want to go to England will island you have to get on a plane and fly over the wall final heaven there is going to be no separation gravity will be gone. If you want to think about heaven in the final picture. Think about God before the book of Genesis that in the beginning God where was God before he created. He always is.

That's hard for us to wrap our minds around. That is, I want to tell you about heaven today because I want you to give your life to Christ.

Some of you are fixing to die.

You have to know Jesus. All of us are going to die, you must know Christ. I saw the new heaven and new first in first earth had tossed away.

Watch what happens and then also the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven because right now heaven is up there. Heaven is up.

We know that because Jesus window. The disciples looked up at three heaven, you got a ghost through you go to defy gravity in order to get into heaven now, but at the end of the world. God's is heaven is going to come down from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from the throne. This is God speaking, saying, behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will drill with them and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as they God so heaven update is going to come down headquarters are going to be in Jerusalem listen what God tells us in verse four he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more, neither will they be morning crying pain anymore, for the former things have tossed away. They've died so let me show you what the Bible tells us is what the Bible tells us just some very simple things. First of all, the Bible previews heaven when you go into the Old Testament there all quite a number of passages and illustrations we gone previews heaven, for example, in second Kings chapter 2, and some of you who are very quick flippers of your Bible. Pages Satan Kings chapter 2 the story of Elijah and Elisha listen to what the Bible says this is a preview this is God telling us back in the beginning before Jesus came, God is previewing heaven.

The Bible does listen, I'm just gonna read one or two verses second Kings chapter 2 verse one now when the Lord was about to take Elijah everybody ready to heaven waited we say heaven is right now someone point. Where is heaven. So if you if you watch the question. Where exactly is heaven right now. Unequivocably, the Bible tells us where heaven is. The disciples when Jesus came rose from the date went to the Mount of olives, the disciples didn't stand inside books ready go by looking back.

The angel of God came to comfort them and said, men of Galilee, why you standing there looking up same Jesus who went up and come back down. Alright, so the Lord was about to take Elijah up into heaven by will, when Elijah and Eliza were on their way to Google go all the way to verse 11 is where it happened and so, as they still went on and told behold I love this. Chariots of fire and forces of fire separated the two of them and Elijah went by a whirlwind into heaven and Elisha's sword and he cried. My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen and Elisha's soul. Elijah no more what God is saying is that when someone dies, you don't see them anymore as they going to heaven when Jesus came and told us something I'm going to get to bed we see but I want to tell you I'm going to show you how. In fact, you can see him again. How many here today on my hands going to go. How many you have a love on mixing heaven like now okay you and I cannot see them physically, but we are going to be because that's why Jesus came and died on the cross for us to make that possible, because in Christ we are made alive. We going to see one another since encouragement. Forgive the interruptible be back with the rest of today's message the Bible and heaven Dr. Don Wilton just a moment Dr. Don Wilton remind not just to deliver this message is not just your dropping off of goods on the front porch ring the bells and hay here you go. It's the idea let's start this conversation together or something got started in your heart study Revelation conversation with Martin right now at 866-899-WORD 866-899-9673 or Ms. keep it on our website@tewonline.org that we won't have all the answers but if we can't find them right there in Scripture where we have references to what Dr. Gonzalez said about it and will find octagon the light of this, we can discover the most of all, we just would like to pray and give the phone numbers 866-899-9673 is online. It.org.

Now back to today's message with Dr. so Bible number one previews number two.

The Bible dilates also? What exactly is going to be in heaven with now this is something I hear people time cost comments about exactly is heaven Bible tells us exactly so I'm just an isolated categories people if you bought himself obviously, God is going to be the river.

I read that to you a minute ago Revelation check 21 verse three God himself.

He said Marcille and in this.

This is for another day. God is going to be gone one in heaven as he was in the beginning God in the beginning before he created the heaven and earth was always God father God SunGard Holy Spirit, but we see him as one. He is one God.

This is the Trinity. It's the ministry it's the dynamic of the triune God and then when we work through the Bible, Jesus comes down so God the son leaves God the father but is God and is born in Bethlehem. Then, when Jesus dies blog raising from the data goes back up into heaven, and he seems to this earth the Holy Spirit the third person of the Trinity. Then when Jesus comes in the clouds.

In first Thessalonians chapter 4 when he comes in the clouds to precipitate the tribulation. God tells us that he will withdraw his spirit from the earth. So during the tribulation. God is in heaven. He has never left heaven up there is not rejoined by God the son and God the Spirit at the end of the seven year tribulation. In Revelation chapter 19 and verse 11. Heaven opens and Jesus is the son comes back down to again man's on the Mount of olives battle of Armageddon, the thousand year reign. The great white throne judgment.

Revelation chapter 20 in verse 15.

And when we get to the passage that we were reading just a minute ago God comes down out of heaven, and joins the sun and the spirit to become one, that in the beginning God. This is the re-creation we going back to the original creation of the world. The garden of Eden because not everything is perfect.

So who is in heaven. God himself number 24 living creatures would just look at Revelation chapter 4. If you got your bombs just go they quickly are going to turn back the to Revelation chapter 4 and verse six Revelation chapter 4 verse six the Bible says in before the throne, the walls, as it were, a sea of glass like Crystal and around the throne got the picture here.

This is the throne of God around the throne. God tells us all living creatures full of eyes in front and behind the first living creature like a lion, the second like an ox.

The food in the face of a man in the fourth like an eagle in flight and the four living creatures, each of them with six wings are full of eyes all around with him and I am not they never cease to sing the holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty was and is and who is to come. So who's going to be in heaven.

I just got to in the interests of full disclosure here this morning to the Bible talks about the four living creatures. Now the four living creatures are spoken on three times in the Bible. First of all Ezekiel speaks about them. Then Daniel speaks about four living creatures, and in the book of Revelation speaks about four living creatures. And this is a huge Bible study. The parallels what is the context in which it is said but just the bottom line if I would if you would ask me today. What do these four living creatures do they worship they celebrate God's holiness. They lead us in worship. They represent us the four living creatures. So God is going to be in heaven. The four living creatures are going to be in heaven ready for the third 124 elders 24 elders. Okay, stay in Revelation chapter 4 and go to verse let me see verse four. Revelation chapter 4 verse four Bible tells us about these people around the throne were 24 thrones, and seated on the thrones were 24 elders closed in white garments, and with golden crowns on May Haiti's by the way they spoken of five times in the book of Revelation. So the 24 elders who were going to be with us, we might as well get to know them. I team to go up to all of them and say I know all about you. I going to be with us. They number the things I'm going to say to you, and bullet fashion. They represent the church. When Jesus spoke to the church in Sardis. In Revelation chapter 3 he said I'm going to give you crowns and I'm going to close you and white garments. They represent the church. They reign with Christ. Did you know that they are seated on thrones. That's a sign of rain of rulership.

They serve as ministering spirits. The whole issue of serving in heaven is huge. They sent out for all who are saved and all who will inherit heaven and eternal life by grace team why they wear crowns. They are symbols of the promise of God to all of us given our lives to Christ that we can be assured that we are going to be in heaven right here it is using heaven, God himself for living creatures. 24 elders. By the way, there's a lot more if you go back into the Levitical law there are tremendous parallels between the 24 elders and the Levitical law of the Jewish people in the Old Testament presentation right so this group of people that are part of our group in heaven are angels, so if you if you take for example, we cannot go to chapter 5, Revelation chapter 5 in verse 11. I'm just picking on one of hundred passages Revelation 5 and verse 11 then I looked member now. John's looking around heaven. Then I looked and I heard around the throne there it is again before living creatures and the 24 elders and the voice of many angels, numbering the regions of myriads and thousands upon thousands all singing with a loud voice will be is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and my and Anna and glory and blessings that I heard every creature in heaven and on and under the earth and in the sea, and all of them that are in unit C. To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessed and honor and glory and might forever and ever. And the four living creatures said amen and the elders fell down and worship. And that's when the Lamb of God begins to open up the seals that precipitate the three series of judgments that are going to take place. The seal judgments followed by the trumpet judgments followed by the bowl judgments increasing in severity and then heaven opens accompanied by the chorus of these angels. What acquire that's going to be the Angels are going to be in heaven. That's a huge subject. And then of course the fourth group of people us all the redeemed people of the world.

Chapter 7 we could go on. Look at chapter 7 and verse nine. Often this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number from every nation, every tribe, every people, every language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white, with palm branches in their hands and crying out with a loud voice singing & salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb and all the angels in the elders and the four living creatures. They only places before the throne and worshiped God, saying, amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and forever and forever and forever meant something that's like winning the national championship got heaven, the walkway to my message and I go to stop kills me so much was the Bible say if I may say something very loving, very respectful to whomever is living listening right now beginning with me is greatly matter what I think Kent can you hear the question.

All these opinions, the Bible sees him in his review and and that's the bottom line, you know, I want us to really be a people who fix our eyes on the Lord. This is my friend.

You know you might be going to dog holders today.

You may be ministering to someone is very very ill. You may be battling in your marriage may be facing a divorce.

You may be really struggling with a son or daughter may be dealing with addictions.

You know, when you study about heaven and know what it for me when I study heaven I think about heaven and I believe what God sees in his word it. It puts are like the right balance back in my life I just I keep coming back to where it really matters doesn't declare life and the things that we have to do the issues that we have to deal with over the next couple weeks in America we going to have Republican convention, Democratic convention going to listen again to celebrate going opinion. I become then the chaos that you talk. Keep yourself out of the chaos, the way you do that trust the Lord love one another kind to one another so go out of your way to keep your focus becomes disk question is have you given your life to Christ really does all come down to how do we keep ourselves in the chaos out of this disc population of confusion come with clarity to pray right now you been listening to Dr. preaching, but in these moments you just can open his heart here in the studio and upright pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God on that Jesus loves me that he died on the cross for me today. I repent of my sin and I can face my sin to the Lord Jesus, and I give him my heart and my life in Jesus name I pray, amen.

If you prayed that prayer from your heart and you given your life to Christ. I welcome you to the family of God. You are my brother, my sister in Christ. Let's get engaged together because we are connected together for ever as believers in Christ know what God speaking to you about. I know he is compelled to say if God stirs your heart to respond to that prayer with Dr. Betty or something else against her to the power of his word earlier today. Pray with you. You do that keyboard keyboard on our website@twonline.org TEW online.today's message again share with a friend discover other resources, 866899 digits or 866-899-WORD 9673 right now.

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