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Perhaps this sounds like a dream of utopia, but this is exactly what God’s personal reign on earth will bring about! And those of us who will be in Heaven will have a part in it. In fact, during the Millennium we’ll use all that we’ve learned — the natural gifts God has blessed us with as well as the skills that we’ve acquired in our earthly lifetime — in order to help restore the earth to a Garden-of-Eden-like state, as God originally intended for it to be before man polluted our once pure and perfect planet through greed and war.
So whether you’re a teacher or a doctor or an engineer or a farmer or a social worker, bus driver, clerk, or a mother or father — whatever your profession or talents may be — you’ll be able to use many of the same skills and talents you have now, in the life to come. The difference is that you’ll be using them for much more meaningful purposes — not simply as a means to support yourself and your family, but to make a difference, to help others and to bring them joy and happiness. The way to be happy is to make other people happy, so as we help and encourage others, we experience the love, joy and happiness that we give to them.
The last two chapters of the Bible’s Book of Revelation describe Heaven as a gigantic golden city nearly 1,500 miles wide, 1,500 miles long, and 1,500 miles high! (See Reve-lation 21:16.) That’s enough floor space to cover half of the United States or most of Western Europe, reaching nearly 1,500 miles into space! As you can imagine, if you divide it into multiple floor levels, a space this massive can house billions of people, with room to spare!
The Bible tells us that this wonderful heavenly habitation of God will someday come to earth, and that God will dwell with man. It will be like God moving over right into our neighborhood to live with us! And those who love God and have received His love in their hearts are going to live with Him in His wonderful golden city!
This may seem pretty far-fetched, or like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s true, foretold in a credible prophetic book — the Bible — which contains hundreds of detailed predictions that have already come to pass throughout history!
The Bible describes the city streets as being made of gold, with a wall encasing the city made of twelve different types of precious gems. We will have houses there, heavenly “mansions” where we can live with our families and loved ones, those who have also believed and received God and His love into their lives.
There’ll even be a great amusement park, with heavenly amphitheaters where we can hear heavenly music, a time travel center where we can go and review the famous events of history and see how they happened and what really took place, and many other centers of interest where we can learn more about the wonderful life that God has given us and how we can best use it to love Him and others.
You’ll have a supernatural body that will never get tired, although you can rest if you want to. You’ll never get hungry, although you can eat if you want to. And you’ll still be able to enjoy the many other senses and pleasures that we relish here on earth, such as touch, smell, sight and even lovemaking — except that each of these things will be enhanced beyond what you have ever experienced before. You’ll even be able to fly!
So as you can see, life in Heaven is a lot like that which we have on earth, except of course it’s so much better! It’s a place that is alive, vibrant, warm, happy, where you’ll be able to enjoy all the pleasures that you’ve ever wanted, and where all the dreams you’ve dreamed will come true! It’s as if you took life here on earth and removed all the bad things and added a lot of love, joy, peace, happiness and fulfillment. — That’s Heaven!
Maybe by now you’re wondering how you can make sure you will be able to live in such a wonderful place as Heaven, once your time on earth is over. Perhaps you’ve been told that only those who are very good get to go to Heaven. You may feel that excludes you, since you know you’ve made mistakes, and have at times done things that were wrong, unloving and hurtful.
