Heaven

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 readers and stretch their thinking about this important subject. $lt;IHeaven$lt;/I will inspire readers to long for heaven while they're living on earth.

Acknowledgments

xiii

Preface: About This Book

xv

Introduction: The Subject of Heaven

xix

PART I A THEOLOGY OF HEAVEN

Realizing Our Destiny

Are You Looking Forward to Heaven?

5

(10)

Is Heaven Beyond Our Imagination?

15

(8)

Is Heaven Our Default Destination . . . or Is Hell?

23

(8)

Can You Know You're Going to Heaven?

31

(10)

Understanding the Intermediate Heaven

What Is the Nature of the Intermediate Heaven?

41

(10)

Is the Intermediate Heaven a Physical Place?

51

(14)

What Is Life Like in the Intermediate Heaven?

65

(12)

Grasping Redemption'S Far Reach

This World Is Not Our Home . . . or Is It?

77

(10)

Why Is Earth's Redemption Essential to God's Plan?

87

(12)

What Will It Mean for the Curse to Be Lifted?

99

(10)

Anticipating Resurrection

Why Is Resurrection So Important?

109

(10)

Why Does All Creation Await Our Resurrection?

119

(8)

How Far-Reaching Is the Resurrection?

127

(10)

Seeing the Earth Restored

Where and When Will Our Deliverance Come?

137

(8)

Will the Old Earth Be Destroyed . . . or Renewed?

145

(8)

Will the New Earth Be Familiar . . . like Home?

153

(12)

Celebrating Our Relationship with God

What Will It Mean to See God?

165

(12)

What Will It Mean for God to Dwell Among Us?

177

(10)

How Will We Worship God?

187

(12)

Ruling on the New Earth

What Does God's Eternal Kingdom Involve?

199

(8)

Will We Actually Rule with Christ?

207

(10)

How Will We Rule God's Kingdom?

217

(16)

PART II QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT HEAVEN

What Will the Resurrected Earth Be Like?

Will the New Earth Be an Edenic Paradise?

233

(8)

What Is the New Jerusalem?

241

(6)

What Will the Great City Be Like?

247

(6)

Will There Be Space and Time?

253

(10)

Will the New Earth Have Sun, Moon, Oceans, and Weather?

263

(10)

What Will Our Lives Be Like?

Will We Be Ourselves?

273

(8)

What Will Our Bodies Be Like?

281

(10)

Will We Eat and Drink on the New Earth?

291

(8)

Will We Be Capable of Sinning?

299

(6)

What Will We Know and Learn?

305

(12)

What Will Our Daily Lives Be Like?

317

(10)

What Will Our Relationships Be Like?

Will We Desire Relationships with Anyone Except God?

327

(8)

Will There Be Marriage, Families, and Friendships?

335

(10)

Whom Will We Meet, and What Will We Experience Together?

345

(8)

How Will We Relate to Each Other?

353

(8)

What Will New Earth Society Be Like?

361

(12)

What About Animals?

Will Animals Inhabit the New Earth?

373

(10)

Will Animals, Including Our Pets, Live Again?

383

(10)

What Will We do in Heaven?

Will Heaven Ever Be Boring?

393

(10)

Will There Be Arts, Entertainment, and Sports?

403

(12)

Will Our Dreams Be Fulfilled and Missed Opportunities Regained?

415

(12)

Will We Design Crafts, Technology, and New Modes of Travel?

427

(12)

PART III LIVING IN LIGHT OF HEAVEN

Reorienting Ourselves to Heaven as Our Home

439

(10)

Anticipating the Great Adventure

449

(10)

Appendix A Christoplatonism's False Assumptions

459

(8)

Appendix B Literal and Figurative Interpretation

467

(10)

Notes

477

(12)

Selected Bibliography

489

(8)

Scripture Index

497

(6)

Subject Index

503

(14)

About the Author

517

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