If the church is the Bride of Christ, who are the guests at the Wedding feast see the Matthew 9 and then Matt 22 also...........
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If the church is the Bride of Christ, who are the guests at the Wedding feast see the Matthew 9 and then Matt 22 also...........
Fenris: "There are two ways to shoot an arrow into a bulls-eye You can shoot the arrow into the bulls-eye or you can shoot the arrow and paint the bulls-eye wherever it hits"
Romans 12:19 Don't seek revenge ... give place to God's wrath. For it is written "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord"
Isa. 30:32
And every blow of the rod of punishment, which the Lord will lay on him, will be with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them
G_d was gracious He has shown favor
What are you willing to die for? Now live for it!
נתהלך באור
The saved nations....Originally Posted by Ta-An
Formerly "Adullam" from other sites!
Striving to apprehend that for which I have been apprehended in Christ Jesus.
Walk in the Light! (התהלכו באור)
Jesus is enough
I read it as "There is room for all of you with God."
We gotta get out of the mindset of "physical houses" because heaven is a place, yes, but more so a state of eternal fellowship with God. It's that state where God is all in all and reigns supreme, and people worship Him voluntarily and all is in harmony without blemish.
Jesus describing heaven is like trying to describe the color blue to a blind person. There's a lack of frame of reference and understanding.
Therefore, Jesus may have chosen physical, earthly concept to describe heavenly reality because of our own lack of reference, but they still fall short because He had to tune it to our capacity to understand things. Some things you can't fully undersand until you experience them for yourself. So we all see through that glass darkly right now and have some vague fuzzy notions, but the reality of it will surpass any and all of our expectations. However, I'm also confident that we will find that Jesus' descriptions are still true and right on the spot.
When Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is "like" ... that doesn't mean it is that thing He is describing, He just means that it is like that thing in principle and that there are certain parallels there we can apply.
Heaven is only heaven because God is there. Meaning, it can be anywhere or anything really, as long as God is with us. We already have heaven with us right now because Jesus has given us His Spirit and so we can begin to live in the reality of it already and don't have to wait.
Even so, come Lord Jesus!
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I am not sure that heaven has anything to do with John 14. I don't think heaven is mentioned at all. Abode/abide seem to be the topic of the chapter as well as the Father. Jesus was not on His way to heaven when He spoke these words, He was on His way to the cross. His sacrifice made room for us in the kingdom of God. We are now His abode and He is our abode. I don't see this promise as a futuristic: "when we all get to heaven" proclamation. It seems to speak of a permanent dwelling for His Spirit among His people.
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