Heaven is God’s holy dwelling place where God’s perfect will reigns and where God has his throne and is worshipped by angels around the clock. Heaven is full of God’s light, joy and peace, and there is no death, sorrow, sin, weeping or torment. Thanks to Jesus’ death on the cross, believers from all nations and peoples of the earth will inherit heaven and be resurrected to eternal life in a new resurrection body and enter heaven where they will be with God and with each other forever. All who believe in Jesus will have their names written in the book of life and receive citizenship in the kingdom of heaven. Even here and now, thanks to the Holy Spirit, we can get a taste of heaven and begin to worship and serve God, thus accumulating treasures in heaven.
Bible Verses
“1After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. 5From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, 6and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” 9And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”” (Re 4:1–11)
“4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”” (Re 21:4)
“10Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Mt 6:10)
“19“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Mt 6:19–21)
“9But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” (1 Co 2:9–10)
“10“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Mt 5:10–12)
“20But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.” (Php 3:20–21)
“34Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” (Mt 25:34)
“9After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”” (Re 7:9–10)
Study Questions
- How do you imagine heaven?
- What will we do in heaven?
- How do we make God’s will happen on earth as it is in heaven?
- How do you collect heavenly treasures?
- How to prepare for heaven?
Additional Bible Verses
Deut 26:15, 2 Chron 6:21, Mark 1:10, 1 Thess 4:16, John 6:38, Heb 9:24, Rev 21:1, Phil 2:10-11, Phil 3:14, Matt 16:27, Luke 12:32, John 14:2, Rev 21:23, Matt 25:21, Luke 10:20, 1 Tim 6:18-19, Phil 3:8, 1 Cor 3:11-14.