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"A boy stood on a windy hillside, flying a kite. He continued to release the string of the kite and it went higher and higher until it was completely out of sight. One of his friends walked up and asked how he knew there was still a kite on the other end. He replied. "I know it's there I feel it tugging on the line." Like the kite, we can't see heaven with our eyes, but we feel it tugging at our souls!"-Heaven: A place you want to spend eternity! (bible.ca)

Are you going to Heaven? What's Heaven going to be like? Who will be in Heaven? What are we going to do in Heaven? Will we have spiritual bodies? These are just some questions I've been asked since I came to see my Heavenly Father. I decided to dedicate this site on helping answer these questions.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"-Genesis 1

The first question I was challenged concerning this topic was a UMM student. He asked me isn't it going to be boring if we just worship God all the time. This was asked 5 years ago, which I thought he really d idn't reall know God if he thought it would be boring. As one come to know God personally, he or she would be more excited about looking forward to worshiping God! In fact, a Bible verse comes to mind that relates to this....

"Worship God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind"

& "Offer you body as living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God"

The meaning and interpretation of the last scripture above has changed more and more as I grow to know my Heavenly Father. When I first heard this, I interpreted this as worshipping and singing to God, like what we do on Sunday mornings at "church" services. Now I interpret this as how we should use our God-given bodies for his glory, whether it's working at a job using what we've been blessed (gifts, talents, skills, etc...) with or taking care of our physical body-health wise!. We try do this 24/7 on earth, which when we go to Heaven-we'll be doing the same thing-but with our spiritual "heavenly" bodies!


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Animals

  • Animals: Do they go to Heaven?, from bibleinfo.com
  • Articles

  • Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop By David Van Biema Thursday, Feb. 07, 2008 from Time.com

  • "...There are several important respects in which it's unsupported by the New Testament. First, the timing. In the Bible we are told that you die, and enter an intermediate state. St. Paul is very clear that Jesus Christ has been raised from the dead already, but that nobody else has yet. Secondly, our physical state. The New Testament says that when Christ does return, the dead will experience a whole new life: not just our soul, but our bodies. And finally, the location. At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, "Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven." It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation..."
  • Glimpses of Heaven, from Christianity Today

  • ...Fortunately, we don't have to rely on the Weekly World News for our "heavenly information." The Bible tells us a few things about heaven. Like:
    * We all long for heaven (Philippians 3:20).
    * We must believe in Jesus to get there (John 3:16).
    * We each have a "heavenly home" waiting for us, prepared by Jesus himself (John 14:2).
    * We will go to heaven as soon as we die (Luke 23:43).
    * We will get new bodies when we go to heaven (2 Corinthians 5:1-4).
    * We will see God face to face in heaven (1 John 3:2).
    * We will not sin in heaven (Revelation 21:27).
    * We will experience no more death, no more pain, no more sadness, no more tears (Revelation 21:4)
    .
    Heaven Is . … The Bible tells us there are streets of gold and that heaven's just this amazing place. I don't think we can even imagine what it's like because we can only think of it in a material way. I think it's going to be so much greater than we can even dream of.
    —Courtney
    I don't think we can know exactly what heaven's going to be like, but I know it's going to really nice. I know that the minute I see it, I'll be so overcome with awe, I'll just worship God. I can't wait to see all my relatives who were Christians, people I never knew. I think that's going to be so cool.
    —Elizabeth
    These are just a few highlights. There are more Scriptures about heaven, far too many to cover here.
    And of course, countless stories and poems and songs and hymns ..."

  • Heavenly or Earthly Bodies, from apostolic.net

  • *this link above may help answer to the question mentioned at the top of this page, which was address at UMM's Chi Alpha-Men Gathering on February 15th of 2005
  • Showing Heaven to the World, from thefamily.org

  • What about Heaven?

    "I made this video after seeing so many hell video's and no Heaven video's. It seems everyone has focused on the negative so much we are actually distorting the message of the gospels and why Jesus even came. We have portrayed an angry God that wants to destroy most of His creation and this just isn't true. Even Jesus said I came not to judge the world but to save it."
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  • What is Heaven?, and many others (Q's & A's that have to do with God) from heaven.net.nz
  • Bible

  • What does the Bible Say About Heaven, from bible.ca

  • ". Two basic views:
    1. Heaven is physical upon the earth
    2. Heaven is spiritual in the presence of God "


    *see Bible

    Books

  • Heaven, by Randy Alcorn (Reviews [1] [2-from Left Behind]) )
  • Children

    What is Heaven like?

    "Heaven sure sounds good to us!"
    'Heaven Is for Real' - 4 Year Old Has Glimpse of Afterlife - Inspirational Videos

    "'Heaven Is for Real' - 4 Year Old Has Glimpse of Afterlife - Inspirational Videos"

    Geography

    "But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven."-Deuteronomy 11:11

    -Jerusalem, Israel
    *I decided search on this soon to be "physical heaven" (Kingdom) after reading Psalm 132 last night (Saturday, December 12th of 2008)

    "Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David."-2 Samuel 5:7

    "[ The Lamb and the 144,000 ] Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads."-Revelation 14:1

    Life

    =>Near Death
    Man visits Heaven and meets God ! - (Part 1)

    "Earthquake Kelley's account of his visit to Heaven after being medically pronounced dead in December, 2004"
    *see GoodnewsEverybody.com Babies, Children, Kids, etc.. Outreach & GoodnewsEverybody.com Issues: Abortion

    -Medical

  • Is Heaven Real? A Neurosurgeon Shares His Story About the Afterlife By Jaimie La Bella, December 18, 2012 magazine.foxnews.com

  • "...In 2008, Dr. Alexander contracted bacterial meningitis of the brain and spent a week in a deep coma. He says that what he saw, felt and experienced during that time was beyond scientific explanation....
    What did heaven look like? What did it feel like?
    “It was full of bliss. It was full of that loving, comforting, caressing and cherishing love from the creator. There was nothing to fear, there was no pain and there was nothing that one could do wrong in that realm."...

    He believes his return to earth was prompted by family members praying around his bedside. "I was feeling the love from those praying around me," he explained. "It was then that I remembered the faces of those around me; one of those faces was of my 10-year-old son. I didn’t remember how we were connected, but I felt that bond. He would come in the room and say, ‘Daddy, you’re going to be OK.’ I didn’t understand the words, but it was something about the pleading that brought me back and pulled me back,” he said.
    “It was terrifying because I realized that all this mattered. I knew I had to come back because there was another soul depending on me. It was that love from my son that really forced me to crawl my way back.”
    Have you become more religious after this experience?
    “I’ve come to know absolutely the existence of an all-loving and powerful God — that our souls are eternal,” Dr. Alexander said. “I go to church all the time, but I have also come to realize strongly that there is no one right religion. All aspects of religion have everything to do with the rich, deep, eternal reality,” he explained. “Anything about religion that says they are the only one is just doomed dysfunctional human thinking. It’s all about showing compassion and forgiveness in our lives and giving our faith and belief to the source of all creation.” ...

  • ‘There Is An Afterlife’: Man Claims He Visited Heaven During Near-Death Experience Feb. 18, 2014 8:31am Billy Hallowell theblaze.com

  • "..An Ohio man is claiming that he traveled to heaven and back again during a recent near-death experience. Brian Miller, 41, was hospitalized after suffering a major heart attack. While he was doing well at first, his heart eventually went into a deadly arrhythmia called Ventricular fibrillation, described by the Mayo Clinic as “a … rhythm problem that occurs when the heart beats with rapid, erratic electrical impulses.” Image source: WJW-TV Brian Miller nearly died following a massive heart attack (Image source: WJW-TV) Miller nearly died as hospital workers worked feverishly to get his heart working again. “He had no heart rate, he had no blood pressure, he had no pulse, I mean think about that,” nurse Emily Bishop told WJW-TV. It was during this time that Miller said he saw the light at the end of a heavenly tunnel — and was told by his recently-deceased mother-in-law that he needed to return to his body, WJW-TV reported. “The only thing I remember, I started seeing a light and started walking towards the light,” he said, describing flowers that were along his path. Miller claimed his mother-in-law appeared, with his father-in-law who is also deceased waving to him from afar. “She was the most beautiful thing when I seen her. It was like the first day I met her. And looked so happy,” Miller said. “She grabbed a hold of my arm and she told me, ‘It’s not your time, you don’t need to be here … you’ve got things to go down and do.” Meanwhile, hospital staffers were working feverishly to get Miller’s heart moving again. Despite shocking him four times, though, his body wasn’t responding. Then, Bishop said Miller’s pulse started moving again on its own. “His brain had no oxygen for 45 minutes, so the fact that he is up walking, talking, everything — I mean that’s amazing,” the nurse told WJW-TV. Miller said the experience has changed his views on life after death. “There is an afterlife and people need to believe in it big time,” he explained. Watch him describe his experience below:...
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    90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

    "After colliding with a semi-truck, Don Piper died and went to heaven. Ninety minutes later he returned to life on earth. After years of silence, he is now sharing his life-changing story. "

    => HEAVEN & HELL BOTH

  • Sasha Steel's testimony of near death experiences, visitations, and encounters with Jesus Christ and Heaven. jesusevidence.org

  • "...It all started when I was a young girl. My aunt Kay was my Sunday school teacher. My parents would go to church but I found out that my mother was always dabbling in other religions and not really focusing on being a Christian, and my father would just go to church but found him self teetering in believing in God to no belief whatsoever. Four years before the end of his life though he did became a born again spirit filled Christian. I was growing up with my Aunt and Uncle teaching me about Jesus. They just loved Him, never believing in anything else other than Him. I never thought that I would have seen Him or go to Heaven. Tragically, when I was five years old I was assaulted and molested. During the horrendous experience, I was taken in the spirit to Heaven....

    "...I found myself walking in this beautiful place where I felt safe, secure, and a great love and peace over me. As I began to look around I saw a river, clear and transparent almost crystal. The green grass was as deep as an emerald stone, the sky was so beautiful as the light was so bright. Then I looked to see who was holding my hand. It was Jesus. His eyes were like fire and ever so kind, so full of the purest of love that you could ever imagine. His hand was so big compared to mine. It had light coming out of the scar where the nail had gone through his hand. He took me to this wonderful place where I saw lots of children. As the other children gathered around Jesus and myself, He talked to us....

    "...As well as Heaven, I was also taken up to see Hell, a real place where I saw people experiencing unimaginable pain, torment, and eternal separation from God. In The New Testament, Jesus speaks more about Hell than Heaven because He doesn't want anyone to go there.

    People often wonder why a loving God would send people to Hell. People send themselves to Hell by cutting themselves off from God, not repenting from their sin and accepting His free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. Jesus gave everything for you and me by dying on the cross for our sin and rising from death. The glories of Heaven and the horrors of Hell cannot easily be put into words. I have shared some of my story here to encourage you to draw close to God whether you know Him yet or not. Encounters with The Lord and Heaven are available for you too....

    Heaven & Hell Near Death Experiences (NDE)

    "Watching an 11 year old boy talk about what he saw and heard after being run over by his Daddy's farm tractor sparked my interest in Near Death Experiences. I remember watching him describe floating out of his body, and entering a white light filled with total love, and seeing and talking with Jesus.
    He went on describing what he saw and heard while in the presence of Jesus.
    But the thing that convienced me and made me realize that there must be something real about NDE's is when the boy told his mom that Uncle Bob said hello. His mother looked stunned when she heard that! She said that Uncle Bob had died 10 years before the boy was born, and that she had never told him anything about his Uncle Bob!
    Ever since hearing the boy tell about his NDE I've watched other people from around the world share simliar stories about what they experience at death.
    Some scientists are trying to laugh this off by saying NDE's are just hallucinations from a brain under tremendous stress from injury and trama. But what these scientists are helpless to explain is how these NDE people can re-call and describe in vivid details what they saw and heard while laying dead in the hospital. They shock the doctors with exact details of what the monitoring machines displayed while connected to their body! Many people who have had NDE are able to accurately describe what family members were wearing and talking about even though they were not allowed in the room where the body was being given electrical shocks to try and restart the heart and breathing. "

    *see GoodnewsEverybody.com Issues-Accuser, Satan, Hell, etc...

    Movies

    -Comedy
    Bruce Almighty Trailer

  • "The Five People You'll Meet in Heaven"
  • Music

    -Pop

  • Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth, from youtube.com (80's)
  • -Rock
    Skillet - Looking For Angels - Official MVID

    "here is the real official music video, not a tribute, or visual. "

    Psychology

  • Near-death experience: A glimpse of the afterlife?- AN APPLE A DAY By Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D. (The Philippine Star) Updated November 03, 2009 12:00 AM philstar.com

  • "As death approaches, for many people, mortal fear gives way to a strangely serene state of mind. They believe that they are having out-of-body experiences, encountering people who are dead, entering tunnels and seeing mystical bright lights. Popularized in numerous books, movies, and television shows as proof of an afterlife, these kinds of near-death experiences (NDEs) are, nonetheless, real clinical phenomena, which can be explained as either psychological events, physiological changes in the brain, or spiritual experiences.
    Throughout history, there’s been a fascination with the transition from what’s known in this life to what may lie beyond. So stories about strange events in the borderland between life and death are hardly new. Over two millennia ago, in the Republic, Plato recounted a gravely wounded soldier’s journey toward “a straight light like a pillar, most nearly resembling a rainbow, but brighter and purer.” Near-death experiences aren’t fresh to popular literature, either. Thirteenth-century monks wrote of a farmer who returned from the edge with tales of “corridors of fire” and “icy” paths to the afterlife.
    Until recently, however, these experiences were usually dismissed as hallucinations or after-the-fact inventions. Many who were convinced they had glimpsed an afterlife were afraid to describe their experiences for fear of being labeled crazy. The medical community’s perception of these reports began to change in 1975 when Raymond Moody published Life After Life, a book that coined the term near-death-experience to describe this hard-to-define phenomenon. Moody interviewed 150 near-death patients who reported vivid experiences (flashing back to childhood; coming face-to-face with Jesus Christ). He found that those who had undergone NDEs became more altruistic, less materialistic, and more loving....

    Science

    -Astronomy

    "And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven."-Deuteronomy 4:19

    a View of Heaven

    "A MOVIE FROM SPACE"

    -Weather

    "I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish."-Genesis 6:17

    Social Issues

    -Abortion

    Hear Us From Heaven

    "God dropped the idea for this video into my head a few weeks ago. The song is "Hear Us From Heaven" by Jared Anderson. I used some clips from The Passion as well as some images from Bound 4 Life. These images are from silent prayer sieges al over the nation. The prayers also come from the Bound 4 Life website. The main verses for this video are: Before I formed you in your mother's womb I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you a prophet to the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5) If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14) Jesus, I plead your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation. God, end abortion and send revival to America. Not only America, Lord, but let a fire of revival and repentance be set ablaze across all the countries and continents of this earth. Check out www.bound4life.com"

    Sports

    -Baseball

  • Angels in the Outfield, from youtube.com

  • "Angels in the Outfield trailer 1994 a movie about...baseball For more great trailers click on the above user. .."

    Testimonies/Stories

  • Jessie Duplantis Has Been to Heaven, a real-life story (Close Encounters of the God Kind, dvd format)written somewhat pessimistically (ministry info)
  • Theatre

    ETERNITY - PART 1

    "Eternity is a powerful evangelistic production that emphasizes the truth about Heaven and Hell and the unconditional love of Christ. It shows through flashback sequences how the choices we make here on earth determine our ultimate destinies. People are able to see themselves on the stage and relate to what the characters are feeling. They can relate to what the character's struggles are and see that there is a way out. Because people's hearts are so open to receive the Gospel, there has never been a better time to reach your community.
    Eternity is a ministry that has seen thousands come to know the knowledge and saving power of Jesus Christ. They have responded to the Gospel message and out of repentance, a spirit of brokenness, and the true conviction on sin. There has been testimony after testimony after testimony of marriages restored, people healed, and lives rededicated to the purpose and call of Jesus Christ. Cities, communities, and churches are left with an awesome passion for the extension of God's Kingdom, knowing that God has done something eternal in their midst. "

    T.V. Sitcoms

  • Highway to Heaven


  • Michael Landon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    "(October 31, 1936 - July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959-1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven (1984-1989)..."

    Global-Multicultural

    Bible

    Angelica Zambrano's Testimony about Hell - 3 - Ministry Videos

    "Celebrities in Hell - Michael Jackson, Pope John Paul, Selina in Hell - Angelica Zambranos Testimony about Hell - English Translation Download audio, copy to CD, share: http://www.swordofprophecy.org ""
    *see <-Children,

    *Heaven Biblical Characters, Only Savior-tell "idolaters", GoodnewsEverybody.com Ministry: End Times, Prophecy, Prophetic, Rapture, Tribulation, etc...

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