Where will we spend eternity? In Heaven or in the New Earth?
One of the greatest theological errors ever propagated, which has become so famous and known that it seems to be biblical, is the belief that the believer will spend eternity in Heaven (where the eternal YHWH dwells), the famous "die and go to glory". However, nowhere does the Scripture say or imply that the saved will spend eternity in Heaven (where the eternal YHWH dwells). What they teach is that the ETERNAL (YHWH) will make a new earth, which will not be adornment, but to be inhabited:
"And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth are gone, and the sea is no more "(Revelation 21: 1)
"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and there shall be no more remembrance of things past, neither shall they remember "(Isaiah 65:17)
"For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will do shall stand before me, saith the Lord, so shall your posterity and your name be" (Isaiah 66:22)
"But we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness" (2 Peter 3:13)
If the first land, the ETERNAL (YHWH) "did not create it by itself, but formed it to be inhabited" (Isaiah 45:18), how much more the new earth, which is the earth transformed to be the habitation of the saints! If man lives on earth today and the ETERNAL (YHWH) will make a new one, it can only be because we will live in the new earth in the future. This is because the heavenly city of which we are speaking so much is in heaven (where THE ETERNAL YHWH dwells) today, "prepared" for the day when it will be inhabited by the saints (Hebrews 11:16), but will descend from Heaven to be inhabited by the redeemed here in the new earth:
"I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from the ETERNAL (YHWH), dressed as a bride adorned for her husband" (Revelation 21: 2)
Therefore, it is not we who will rise and go to dwell in the heavenly city, it is the heavenly city that descends to the new earth! And verse 3 complements this idea, saying:
"I heard a loud voice coming from the throne and saying, 'Now the tabernacle of the ETERNAL (YHWH) is with the men, with whom he will live. They shall be their peoples; the Eternal One (YHWH) will be with them and will be their God '"(Revelation 21: 3)
As we see, it is not the men who will be with the Eternal in Heaven, it is THE ETERNAL (YHWH), who will be with men on earth! The tabernacle of Eterni, which is now in heaven, will in future be "with men," that is, here on earth. That is why Jesus (YAUSHA) said that the poor will inherit the earth, not Heaven:
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5: 5)
Jesus (YAUSHA) did not say that the future inheritance of the righteous will dwell in Heaven, but on earth! It is evident that all these passages apply not only to the millennium, but to the whole eternal period. Revelation 21: 1-3 is postmillennial, and speaks of things that will happen after the millennium. Matthew 5: 5 is not a reference only to a period of a thousand years, but to the eternal period, for Jesus took such a quote from Psalm 37:29, which says:
"The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever" (Psalm 37:29)
It does not say that the righteous will inherit the land for a thousand years and then go to heaven or go to heaven immediately after death but will inherit the land forever. Incredibly, some immortalists have the old idea that we are on earth today, we go to Heaven after death, we return to earth in the millennium and then we return to eternity again in Heaven! This immortalistic confusion has no biblical basis, for the Scriptures are clear in reporting that the inheritance of the just is the earth, which will be transformed into the creation of the "new earth" promised by the Eternal.
The hope of the Jews of the time of Christ has always been based on the belief of the Kingdom of the Eternal coming, that is, of the Eternal One day establishing His Kingdom in visible form here on earth through Yausha, His Son, wherever He is, we will be, eternity. This becomes clear when we see the hope that Joseph of Arimathea had in this respect:
"Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin, who also awaited the Kingdom of the Eternal, boldly went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus" (Mark 15:43)
The Jews were waiting for the Kingdom of the Eternal to come to them, not for themselves to go to the Eternal Kingdom in death. This is why the Lord Jesus Himself (YAUSHA) said:
"For I say unto you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of the Lord come" (Luke 22:18)
In the model prayer of the Lord's Prayer, he taught us to pray: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ..." (Matthew 6:10). When we pray for "your Kingdom to come," we are not asking for the coming of one person (second coming of Christ), but a Kingdom. This Kingdom that will come is nothing other than that same Kingdom that John saw descending from the heavens and settling on the new earth in Revelation (Rev.21: 2), which is called "the new Jerusalem." Jesus (YAUSHA) did not pray for him to return, nor did he say "your Son shall come", but that the Kingdom itself would come in its physical and visible form, as John saw and as the Jews had hoped.
This explains why we see so often in the New Testament the mention that "the kingdom of God is at hand" (Luke 10: 9; 10:11; 21:31; Mark.10: 15), which means that this Kingdom of the Eternal is coming, that the hour is near when the Kingdom will come and will be established here on earth. The Kingdom of the Eternal had already arrived in its spiritual form (Luke 11:20), for it was not yet time to come in its visible form
(Luke 17:20), since in his visible form he had not yet come, but was "near" (Lk.10: 9; 10:11; 21:31; Mk.10: 15), being established only after the millennium (Rev. 21: 1-3).
That is why, when he arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus (YAUSHA) had to "tell them a parable, because the people thought that the Kingdom of the Eternal was to be revealed at once" (Luke 19:11). These people believed that it was already time for the Kingdom of the Eternal to manifest in its visible form, for the heavenly Jerusalem to descend from Heaven and for the eternal period to begin, and so Jesus (YAUSHA) had to tell a parable in which he would only go to return "after a long time" (Mt.25: 19). The belief was not to die and go to Heaven at the moment of death, but it was based on the expectation of the visible establishment of the Eternal Kingdom here on earth for all eternity.
When the ETERNAL (YHWH) created man originally, he did not create it in Heaven, but on earth. Therefore, it would be more fitting that in the restoration of all things (Mt.19: 28), the original pattern of the Eternal to His creation be restored to man in an earthly Paradise. Adam and Eve were created on earth in a specific place, called "Garden of Eden" (Gn.2: 15), but were expelled from there with the entrance of sin into the world, so that today this Paradise meets the Eternal in Heaven (Gen. 3: 23,24, Rev. 22: 2, 17).
So, what will happen when there is the restoration of all things, when sin is finally cast out of the world? This Paradise will descend from Heaven and return to the possession of regenerated human beings (Rev.21: 2), just as they were Adam and Eve before sin. It would be inconsistent that the Eternal created man originally on earth so that in the restoration of the original model he would be changed to Heaven. No biblical writer ever expressed a desire to go to Heaven, what they sought was eternal life. The kingdom of heaven is the heavenly Paradise that is now in heaven, but will descend to the earth after the millennium (Rev.21: 1-3).
As we leave this life, we will meet Christ in judgment after we are resurrected, and soon there will be a reunion with the living saints caught up with Jesus (YAUSHA) in the air. Christ comes with his saints (1Thes.4: 14) because these saints were resurrected first (1 Thess.4: 16). Then, after the encounter between the living saints caught up and the resurrected dead, YAUSHA will descend to earth to establish his millennial reign, when the earth will enjoy a thousand years of peace.
Then there will be the resurrection of the wicked (Rev.20: 5), who will gather and march against the Lamb and the saints in the city of Jerusalem (Rev.20: 8), and will be devoured by the consuming fire that will fall from heaven Rev.20: 9). At this moment, the whole Universe is transformed by the regenerating power of God, new heavens and new earth are made, and the heavenly city, Paradise that was in the old Heaven, will descend to the new earth, where we will dwell forever with the ETERNAL (YHWH ) AND YOUR SON. All this vision is shared even by many pastors, who do not always have the courage to admit it, for it would deny a historical myth that is the belief of dying and going to heaven, which has no biblical support.
Being with Christ (YAUSHA) is different from going to Heaven, for we will be with Christ resurrected in judgment, and not incorporeal in an intermediate state. Kingdom of the Eternal or kingdom of heaven is not the same thing as Heaven itself. When the Bible speaks of the Kingdom of the Eternal, it may refer simply to the Gospel (Mark 4: 11, 4:26, Luke 4: 43, 8: 1, 8:10, 9:11, 9:60) , or to the kingdom of heaven, which refers to the kingdom that is now in heaven, but which will descend to the new promised land after the millennium, when the heavenly city descends from heaven and the tabernacle of the Eternal itself is with men (Ap .21: 3).
So when Christ said in Matthew 5: 3 that "blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Mt.5: 3), he was not contradicting what he himself said only two verses later, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" (Mt.5: 5), nor was it saying that the humble would have an eternal destiny different from the fate of the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven which he spake shall come down to earth, that we may dwell in it for ever. So we will dwell in the heavenly Jerusalem (kingdom of heaven) established upon the new earth. That is why our greatest hope, as Peter says, is not to die and go to heaven, but that, "according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness" (2 Pet. 3:13).
And that is why the apostle Paul also said:
"But our city is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ (YAUSHA)" (Philippians 3:20)
Note that Paul did not say that we are going to Heaven, but that our country is in the heavens. This city, which Paul says is in heaven today, will descend at the end of the millennium, as John says (Rev.21: 2), settling in the new earth. Paul completes the thought by saying that from there (from Heaven) we also expect the Savior Jesus Christ (YAUSHA). This "also" placed here by the apostle links these two events, the descent of Jesus to the earth and the descent of the heavenly city to the earth. It is not only Jesus (YAUSHA) who will come to earth, but also Jesus (YAUSHA). In the face of the context, this "also" is related to "our city which is in heaven," the new heavenly Jerusalem. Therefore, Paul's belief was not in dying and living in heaven forever, but it was the expectation of Christ's return and the descent of a holy city into the new promised land.
Unfortunately, from the moment the lie of the immortality of the soul began to gain strength in the Christian churches, this reality was completely distorted and distorted. People today pray "come your kingdom" without knowing what it means. They have in mind that popular version of the afterlife where the expectation of the Christian is based on the illusion of being in Heaven in an incorporeal state between death and resurrection and not in the realistic biblical view of corporeal and earthly life after resurrection. All solid biblical eschatological theology has been destroyed to give way to a fairy tale, where spirits float in the clouds of heaven playing flutes and talking to angels, rather than biblical realism where the future life is through the resurrection of a physical body , to dwell in a new physical earth, though transformed from sin and sinners.
Peace to all of you who are in Christ.
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