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What will heaven be like? Randy Alcorn presents a thoroughly biblical answer, based on years of careful study, presented in an engaging, reader-friendly style. His conclusions will surprise listeners and stretch their thinking about this important subject. Heaven will inspire listeners to long for heaven while they're living on earth.

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Listening Length: 11 hours and 17 minutes

Program Type: Audiobook

Version: Abridged

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Audible.com Release Date: February 5, 2015

Language: English, English

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First the bad, though I don't think it amounts to much. I felt that Mr. Alcorn harped too much on the fact that Heaven and our resurrected bodies are physical rather than some sort of spirit-only, ghostly kind of thing. It has never occurred to me that they would be otherwise. From what Alcorn says, though, a lot of Christians don't believe this way. The scriptures describe things just as Alcorn says, but apparently, many Christians have insisted on taking the Biblical descriptions of Heaven metaphorically. The book gets a little dry at points as Alcorn goes into complex, in-depth proofs of points I had already accepted. I understand that Alcorn does have other books that aren't quite as scholarly.The thing I liked most about this book was that it got me to thinking about Heaven. Ordinarily we get so wrapped up in life here on earth as it is now that we don't give more than a passing thought to Heaven. We may think a lot about our ministries, or about how to become closer to God, or about working on our character flaws, but we seldom think of our reward.Mr. Alcorn points out that it's okay forward to look to our reward. I think most of us have been taught that doing things for a reward rather than for pure altruism is bad. If you're a doctor, and you're only doing it for the money, then maybe it is bad. Or if you're a social worker who doesn't care about people, or a teacher who hates kids . . . .But Jesus does tell us to look forward to Heaven. I had previously overlooked this fact, but it's definitely there in scripture. It really is okay to do things with a mind toward pleasing God and receiving a reward from Him. God really wants us to look forward to Heaven and to work to be worthy of riches there.Alcorn gets perhaps a little carried away on some of his imaginary scenarios of what Heaven might be like, but he does make it clear that he is just speculating, and I'm sure he had fun doing it. I've been dreaming up things myself, so I can't criticize him too much.I think it's also important that we as Christians realize that the picture unchurched people have of Heaven isn't likely to be scriptural. Even Christians, apparently, often have a very unscriptural idea of Heaven, so how can we expect people of our secular times to automatically know what Heaven is like? All they know is what Hollywood has told them. We need to realize this and take it into account when sharing the love of Christ. It's hard to get excited about going to Hollywood's version of "heaven".I believe this book deserves a wide readership and, if it gets it, will be of genuine benefit to the church of Jesus.

Author Randy Alcorn wrote in the Preface to this 2004 book, “We [Christians] have failed to explore and explain the Bible’s magnificent teachings about Heaven. No wonder a flood of unbiblical thinking has rushed in to fill the vacuum…. The truth is, in our seminaries, churches, and families, we have given amazingly little attention to the place where we will live forever with Christ and his people---the New Earth, in the new universe. This eternal Heaven is the central subject of this book… Many things in this book will be new even to readers who are veteran students of Scripture… They may appear to be adding to or misinterpreting Scripture, when in fact they are simply portraying what Scripture has said all along but we’ve failed to grasp.” (Pg. xiii-xiv) [NOTE: page numbers refer to the 533-page hardcover edition.]He further explains, “Nearly every notion of Heaven I present in this book was stimulated and reinforced by biblical texts. Though some of my interpretations and speculations are no doubt mistaken, they are not baseless. Rightly or wrongly, I have drawn most of them from my understanding of the explicit and implicit teachings of Scripture. Discussions of Heaven tend to be either hyperimaginative or utterly unimaginative… both approaches are inadequate and dangerous. What we need is a biblically inspired imagination.” (Pg. 16-17)Before getting to Heaven, however, he first cautions, “Heaven is NOT our default destination. No one goes there automatically. Unless our sin problem is resolved, the only place we will go is our true default destination….Hell.” (Pg. 23) He adds, “Hell will be agonizingly dull, small, insignificant, without company, purpose, or accomplishment… As the new universe moves gloriously onward, Hell and its occupants will exist in utter inactivity and insignificance, an eternal non-life of regret and---perhaps---diminishing personhood.” (Pg. 27-28)He asserts, “When we die believers in Christ will not go to the Heaven where we’ll live forever. Instead, we’ll go to an intermediate Heaven. In that Heaven---where those who died covered by Christ’s blood are now---we’ll await the time of Christ’s return to the earth, our bodily resurrection, the final judgment, and the creation of the new heavens and New Earth.” (Pg. 42) He argues, “there is no such thing as ‘soul sleep,’ or a long period of unconsciousness between life on Earth and life in Heaven… The spirit’s departure from the body ends our existence on Earth. The physical part of us ‘sleeps’ until the resurrection, while the spiritual part of us relocates to a conscious existence in Heaven… Every reference in Revelation to human beings talking and worshiping in Heaven prior to the resurrection of the dead demonstrates that our spirit beings are conscious, not sleeping, after death… it’s not clear how disembodied beings COULD sleep, because sleeping involves a physical body.” (Pg. 46-47)He explains that he think that Heaven “might be a physical place”: “The physical New Earth will be our ultimate dwelling place, but until then we shouldn’t find it surprising if God chooses to provide a waiting place that’s also physical… as human beings, we occupy space. It seems reasonable to infer that the space we occupy would be physical… Why are we so resistant to the idea that Heaven could be physical? The answer… is centered in an unbiblical belief that the spirit realm is good and the material world is bad, a view I am calling ‘Christoplatonism.’ (Pg. 51-52) Later, he clarifies, “This philosophy has blended elements of Platonism with Christianity, and in so doing has poisoned Christianity and blunted its distinct differences from Eastern religions.” (Pg. 475)He suggests that “Conversion does not mean eliminating the old but transforming it… we remain who we are. We have the same history, appearance, memory, interests, and skills. This is the principle of ‘redemptive continuity’… The New Earth will still be Earth, but a changed Earth… so too the world will be reborn in continuity with the old world…” (Pg. 114-115)He provides a great deal of ideas about what Heaven will be like: the original Garden of Eden may be in the New Jerusalem (pg. 56-57); animals [including predators] will neither harm nor destroy (pg. 130); “nature, animals, paintings, books, or a baseball bat might be resurrected” (pg. 135); “there will be no church services in Heaven” (pg. 196); “we’ll be different in positions of service… God will give us permanent management positions on the New Earth” (pg. 220); the New Jerusalem will allow to “enjoy the arts, music, and sports without pickpockets, porn shops, drugs, or prostitution” (pg. 253); “the New Earth will have large bodies of water” (pg. 275); “some people will wear jeans, shorts, T-shirts, polo shirts, or flip-flops” (pg. 296); “we’ll eat at feasts with Christ in an earthly kingdom” (pg. 302); he adds, Cold God make it so our ne bodies wouldn’t go through the same digestive and elimination processes they do now? Certainly. Will he? We don’t know. But no aspect of our God-created physiology can be bad.” (Pg. 305)He speculates, “Those who for reasons of allergies, weight problems, or addictions can’t regularly consume peanuts, chocolate, coffee, and wine---and countless other foods and drinks---may look forward to enjoying them on the New Earth… we’ll enjoy more pleasures, not fewer.” (Pg. 309) “Will we study doctrine in Heaven? … We will have eternity to explore it… On the New Earth… biology zoology chemistry, astronomy, physics---all will the study of God.” (Pg. 321) “Some old books may be republished in the New Jerusalem” (pg. 326); “I believe we will likely need [sleep] AND enjoy it” (pg. 330); “The continuity of our resurrection minds and bodies argues that we’ll have no trouble recognizing each other” (pg. 346); “We’ll have greater marital intimacy with Jesus than we ever had in the best earthly marriages” (pg. 353); “Perhaps in Heaven many people will meet their children who were aborted or their children who dies in miscarriages” (pg. 356).He asks soberly, “So how could we enjoy Heaven knowing that a loved one is in Hell?... In Heaven, we will see with a new and far better perspective. We’ll fully concur with God’s judgment on the wicked… We’ll never question God’s justice, wondering how he could send good people to Hell. Rather, we’ll be overwhelmed with his grace, marveling at what he did to send bad people to Heaven. (We will no longer have any illusion that fallen people are good without Christ.)… in a sense, none of our loved ones will be in Hell---only some whom we ONCE loved.” (Pg. 367-368)He states that we will have ethnic and national identities (pg. 376); “God will likely again restore a common language” (pg. 378); there will be animals, under our care (pg. 392); of dinosaurs, ‘behemoth,’ and ‘leviathan,’ he asks, ‘Why shouldn’t all people have the opportunity to enjoy these great wonders of God on the New Earth?” (pg. 399); some people “may continue with work similar to what they do now, whether as gardeners, engineers, builders, artists, animal trainers, musicians, scientists, craftspeople… A significant difference will be that they’ll work without the hindrances of toil, pain, corruption, and sin.” (Pg. 413) He says, “Some researchers suggest that we now use only 10 percent of our brainpower. Adam and Eve could likely use 10 percent of theirs---and their brainpower was probably far greater than ours.” (Pg. 417)He continues, “Scripture songs will endure, but other music from Earth may also be preserved… Although some lyrics will require theological corrections, others will be suitable as is, ready to be sung in God’s presence… Will secular songs survive? Not if they dishonor Christ… Which of your favorite songs will survive?... As a musical novice, I might compose something worthy of Bach. And what kind of music do you suppose Bach will compose?” (Pg. 420) “Just as we can look forward to cultural endeavors such as art, drama, and music on the New Earth, we can assume that we’ll also enjoy sports there” (pg. 426); “What should we expect to find on the New Earth? Tables, chairs, cabinets, wagons, machinery, transportation, sports equipment, and much more” (pg. 445).He acknowledges, “Does this sound speculative? I imagine it only because of Scripture’s own words. I base my observation on the texts I’ve cited here and elsewhere in this book. I didn’t begin with a vivid imagination of Heaven---exactly the opposite. I studied the Scriptures about Heaven. Only over the years, over the decades, did they infuse my imagination.” (Pg. 383) He states, for example, that we will laugh in Heaven on the basis of Luke 6:23: ‘Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.’” (Pg. 424)Certainly, Alcorn’s visions and speculations sound wonderful; his exegetical basis for some of these ideas, however, is sometimes perhaps a bit skimpy. But for anyone wanting a book overflowing with ideas about what Heaven might be like, this book will be very warmly welcomed.

Really enjoying this book. It really addresses a lot of questions and curiosities about heaven (i.e. new heaven and new earth) without guessing and making up stuff. Even common statements that people make based on the Bible, the author points out why we can't take it too far (like just because Jesus could walk through walls/appear out of thin air doesn't mean we will be able to- Jesus being God throws a wrench in how much we can assume. We may be able to walk through walls in eternity, but we don't know for sure.)I appreciate the attention to detail and the foundation the author lays for his arguments. There are tons of great thoughts in here and every passage that I read because the author seemed to be introducing some new/strange idea, I realized that if anything, after reading the passage, the author was being conservative in his conclusions.I'm actually excited about eternity - instead of looking forward to going to somewhere better than Hell, I know realize that eternity with Jesus is going to be amazing - the new earth will be the best version of earth possible. I can't wait!Overall: 5 out of 5Author's handling of the Bible: 5 out of 5Author's ability to be clear and direct: 5 out of 5Would I recommend this to others: yes, I already have bought 3 more copies and a couple copies of the 50 day devotional for those who won't read a book this longIf you found this review helpful - please click the "Yes" button below this review indicating so - thanks!

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