Sublime

be true, because there is only one God. God cannot possibly be divided in this way. I have it! I am having my hell now. When I die, I shall have my heaven. The master’s having his heaven now. When he dies, he will have his hell.” The next day, chopping cotton beneath the torrid skies, the slave said to his mate: I got shoes, You got shoes, All

First, “heaven” will be on earth. This is where Revelation 21–22 locates the eternal state, but that fact often is missed by Bible readers. Eternal life will be lived out in a new Eden—a global paradise that fulfills God’s original

And heaven will not be singing in mass choirs up in the clouds. Heaven will consist of real people living in a real creation, freed from all evil and misery and renewed in unimaginable beauty, because the Lord will be with us.

what exists in Heaven is a family.

Heaven is both the peace, stillness, serenity, and calm that come from having everything in its right place—that state in which nothing is required, needed, or missing—and the endless joy that comes from participating in the ongoing creation of the world.

We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness.