WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:16.039 practical ways. Good morning, there it is morning. We talked 4 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:19.399 the whole night through. Good morning, good morning to. 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:23.600 You, and and there you go. Yes, man, Hey, by 6 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.079 the way I kicked it off, that's a Tuesday. Tuesday. 7 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:27.079 It doesn't get much better. 8 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.359 Hey. We had a small group at our house because 9 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.759 we're running our small group coinciding with our series you 10 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:38.320 know What Heritage and there I said, maybe my wife 11 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:40.679 said it, but somebody said, hey, how many you listening 12 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:44.960 to the Bible guys? And I was very humbled that 13 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.960 out of like the eighteen people that are in there, 14 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.880 and by the way, they're all college age, right, there 15 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:52.320 was like seven of them. 16 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:54.359 Yeah, well all the cool college kids are listening to 17 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:56.280 the Bible guys. Yeah and I both know. 18 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:01.439 Hey, but anyway, but nobody had said something about they 19 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.239 sing good morning. And so because I was in my house, 20 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:06.400 I went ahead and pulled up the Singing in the 21 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:09.159 Rain clip where they actually Debbie Reynolds sings good morning, 22 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:10.120 and I said. 23 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:11.439 This is where I got it from. 24 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:13.959 Yes, I met, well half of the song, you know 25 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.159 the first half, because you know, after that it gets 26 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:17.519 you know, like, unless. 27 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.200 You love singing in the ring, it's just a lot. 28 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.920 It's a lot. So anyway, uh, but they were literally 29 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.519 blown away because not a single person other than one 30 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.079 of them and my kids had seen singing in the ring. 31 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:30.200 So it's pretty funny. 32 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.799 Wow. Yeah, okay, well good well, congratulations to that group. 33 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.560 That sounds like a banger group. Now that sounds like 34 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:39.040 so much fun, right, Okay. 35 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:40.480 So hey, so we are in the middle of this 36 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.200 of a series this week called Stump. 37 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.439 The pastor Yes. This is an awesome one, yes. 38 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.840 Because we are going through questions that people have written in. 39 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.200 So we're saying every episode that if you would like 40 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.319 to send in a question for us to consider it 41 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.200 in the future, please email us at info at the 42 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.159 Bible guys dot com or comment on a clip, YouTube 43 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:03.120 or anything else that you know you can message us. 44 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:06.480 Yeah. So that's awesome, dude, Yeah, pretty cool. So what's 45 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:07.599 the big question today? 46 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.719 Well, here is the first question. Let's tackle two. We're 47 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:11.919 going to tackle two, I guess. 48 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.000 Okay, and they're both they're both along the lines of heaven, 49 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:14.719 so this is kind of fun. 50 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:16.960 Yeah, they kind of go together. So here's the question. 51 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:20.840 First of all, by Melissa jh I Melissa Jay. She says, 52 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:24.080 you often comment, when I get to Heaven, I'm going 53 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:27.560 to ask this question or talk to this person that 54 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.680 you may or may not have known here on earth. 55 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.719 Where in the Bible does it say all our questions 56 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.560 will be answered or we'll be able to talk to 57 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:41.360 anyone we want. That's a great question. Yeah, yeah, and 58 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.240 so do you do? You want me to tackle it? 59 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:45.080 Go ahead, you want to try, Okah, go for it. 60 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:49.000 Well, here's the thing. It doesn't say any of those things. Okay. 61 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.400 It doesn't say we'll be able to ask any question 62 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:51.759 we want. 63 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.479 It doesn't say the words when you get to heaven, 64 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.039 you'll be able to sit down and ask any question 65 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:56.520 you want, or talk to anybody you want to talk 66 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:58.039 to you. No, it does not say those words. It 67 00:02:58.039 --> 00:02:59.120 doesn't say that that's right. 68 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:07.120 However, there are indications that we'll be able to find 69 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.919 people and talk with them, right. So, for instance, I'm 70 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:15.240 very reminded of the rich Man and Lazarus. 71 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:14.960 Right. 72 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.599 So it says in Hades, where he was in tour. 73 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.599 This is Luke, chapter sixteen, verse number nineteen. It says 74 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:22.560 in Hades where he was in torment. He looked up 75 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.879 and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. 76 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.280 Father Abraham, he called out, have pity on me, for 77 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:32.520 I'm in agony in this fire. And so why this 78 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:36.719 matters is both the rich Men and Lazarus retain their names, memories, 79 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.759 and awareness, which is sort of like the next question 80 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.360 actually of their earthly lives. And the rich man even 81 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.960 remembers his family and asks them to be warned, showing 82 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:50.439 continuity of personal memory after death. So this is not 83 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.759 only a scripture that supports we have memories, but it 84 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.120 also supports questions. Right, So he's asking Abraham a question, 85 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:03.319 and then also, uh, isn't there another there's a there's 86 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.159 a description revelation that talks about conversations with people who 87 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:09.120 remember how they. 88 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:13.680 Died and how Yeah, the martyrs, Yes, so the martyrs remember. 89 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:17.560 Let me let me I just just pulled this up 90 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:19.040 a second ago. Let me let me find it. 91 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.839 Yeah, So there's there's questions about that, which means means 92 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.160 that if we find if we roam heaven, and uh, 93 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.360 you know, it may take us a while, but let's 94 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:37.160 just say eventually we run into you know, the apostle John. 95 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:37.839 Yeah. Right. 96 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.160 Uh. You know, if he remembers in the Book of 97 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.920 Revelation how he dies, then that must mean that he 98 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.480 retains memories to such a degree you can say, I 99 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.040 have a question about the Bible. 100 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.480 I'm forgetting the chapter in Revelation. But the martyrs are 101 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.839 around the throne of God, and they're conscious of the 102 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.720 fact that they were martyred. They remember the. 103 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.920 Relations thins relations six nine through ten. 104 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:00.480 Oh, there you go. 105 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.480 I saw under the alter of the souls of those 106 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:05.680 who had been slain because of the word of God. 107 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.800 They called out in a loud voice, how long Sovereign Lord, 108 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.360 Holly and True until you judge the inhabitants of the earth. 109 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:13.560 And then it goes on after that. 110 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:15.439 Yeah, yeah, it goes on. And so they're conscious of 111 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.519 the fact that, you know, there's bad things happening on 112 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:23.279 earth and that they were martyred. So here's what I 113 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:26.600 would say this question specifically, she's asking, how do we 114 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.839 know that all of our questions will be answered? Right? 115 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.639 That's really the thing. I think The next question is 116 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.079 going to be more about our what kind of consciousness 117 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:35.879 do we have? What are we aware of? Who are 118 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:36.720 we aware of in heaven. 119 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:38.120 But I answer them at the same time. 120 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.720 But yeah, but this one is being asked, you know, 121 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:42.920 how do we know? All of our questions will be answered? 122 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.600 And in First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, Paul says, now we 123 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.519 see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror. But 124 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.319 then we will see everything with perfect clarity. Right. All 125 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.399 that I know now is partial and then complete. But 126 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.800 then I, and he's talking just as a Christian follower 127 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.480 of Jesus will know everything completely, just as God now 128 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.720 knows me completely. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, So he says 129 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:09.519 that right now I only know partial. I only know 130 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:11.079 what the Bible says. But I don't know everything I 131 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:13.439 know the mind of God. I don't know how he 132 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.199 does what he does, or why he does what he does. 133 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.600 I don't know all the facts and the details. But 134 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:18.959 he says, but then when I get to have an 135 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.279 it'll all make sense and I'll know everything completely. 136 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:23.360 So you and I memorize it, and now I know 137 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.759 in part. Then I shall know fully even as I 138 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.199 am fully known. Yeah. So Paul teaches that our knowledge 139 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.680 will be expanded, not erased, and we will know fully, 140 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.639 implying that memory and understanding will be perfected, not forgotten, 141 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.720 and so yeah, to be able to ask the questions 142 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.879 to get them answered. It stands the reason, right and 143 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:50.519 all of that. But like, isn't there isn't there an indication? 144 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:56.879 Didn't Jesus say it is not yet? Didn't he say, goodness, 145 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:58.040 I'm just going by memory here? 146 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:58.319 Yeah? 147 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.040 But didn't he say it is not for for yet? 148 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:06.839 For what am I thinking here? It is not meant 149 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:11.680 for you to know yet, right, the Kingdom of Heaven, 150 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.439 the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, sure, right, indicating 151 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:18.279 that one day you will right right, which which again 152 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:22.040 is more knowledge about the Kingdom of Heaven. So yeah, 153 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.319 I believe that we'll be able to interact with others, right. 154 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.279 I believe that we'll know their identities. I believe that 155 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.879 we will have our memories, which means if we have 156 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.639 our memories, then hopefully I'll retain some of my same curiosities. 157 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:36.560 Yeah right, So I mean that's. 158 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:38.160 Really what we're talking about. We're talking about like, if 159 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.759 I'm wondering about something here on the earth, will I 160 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.240 still will it not matter? Or will I still have 161 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:44.480 my same curiosities? 162 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:48.240 Well? And Andrea Bee asks a similar question, So, Hi, 163 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.199 Andrea B, Hi Andrew B. And she asks, will we 164 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:53.959 have knowledge of our life on earth and our relationships 165 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:55.879 after we are gone? 166 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:56.480 Right? 167 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.120 And I think she means after we go to heaven. 168 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:03.560 Yeah, And then she says, or is our memory just wiped? Right? 169 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:10.759 So the here's what we know at the Mountain of 170 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:15.120 Transfiguration Matthew, Chapter seventeen, Jesus goes up on the mountain. 171 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.560 That's a good one, and he's got Peter, James and 172 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:21.360 John with him, and Moses and Elijah come and are 173 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:26.319 talking with Jesus, and Peter, James, and John know exactly 174 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.160 who each person is, even though they never met Moses 175 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:32.320 or Elijah. Moses died two thousand years before they were alive, 176 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.960 or a thousand years, thousand years before they were alive. No, 177 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:36.720 it's more than that. Two thousand years before they died, 178 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:42.799 before their life. Elijah was fifteen hundred years before they 179 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:46.039 were alive. Right, But they recognize these two. They know, Hey, 180 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.200 that's Moses and that's Elijah. And so in the spiritual 181 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:53.679 realm there seems to be this perfect knowledge. 182 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.639 And how would they know that unless they were given 183 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:56.159 knowledge of it? 184 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.519 Maybe that's what I'm saying they were. I think the 185 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.799 amount of transfiguration and this was a spiritual environment on 186 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:04.000 earth in the moment, I think they stepped into the 187 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:06.120 spiritual realm, right. I don't know that. I think that 188 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:09.840 Elijah and Moses showed up physically with blood and bones 189 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.440 and muscles, right. I think it was that Jesus walks 190 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:15.240 into the spiritual That's why when he walks back out 191 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.720 he's glowing. Right. Yeah, So I think that God just 192 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:20.919 God opened their eyes to be able to see the spiritual. 193 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:26.399 Very similar to when Elijah's servant can't see and he's 194 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:27.840 all afraid that they're going to get wiped out by 195 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:31.320 the army, and Elijah says, if you could see what I 196 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.919 could see, We're surrounded by all these people. God show him, right, 197 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.240 and he sees all these fiery tarts all around them. 198 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.440 God's protecting them in the moment. He gave him a 199 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.519 glimpse of what was spiritual. I think that's what's happening 200 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.000 for them. Only this is Jesus in his spiritual form 201 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:45.840 with Moses and Elijah. 202 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.679 Sure that I have ever thought that it wasn't a physical, 203 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:53.759 earthly physical Elijah and earthly physical. 204 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:55.639 Well, I think what I'm trying to say is this 205 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:59.200 was blended the spiritual physical in a way that they 206 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:02.000 never saw the spiritual because that clearly Peter, James and 207 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:03.759 John were in their physical body, Jesus was in his 208 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:06.600 physical body, yeah right, But I don't think that was 209 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.480 the focus of Moses and Elijah, whether they had a 210 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.840 physical body in the moment or not. What these guys 211 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.200 were seeing was a blending of the spiritual realm in 212 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:14.360 this in the physical realm. 213 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.440 But it is possible, I believe that Adam and Eve 214 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.720 had a physical body in the spiritual realm. Yes, right, 215 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.399 that's the Garden of Eden exactly. So you did God, right, 216 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.360 that's yeah, right, yeah, yeah. So my question is did 217 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.039 Moses and Elijah. I mean, we'll be giving bodies in 218 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.639 heaven so that they will have had a physical body, 219 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.159 but like but but but for. 220 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:35.440 Yeah, but are they in heaven? Now we've talked about that. 221 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.240 Yeah yeah, yeah, right, right, right, right, right, right, yeah right. 222 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.200 So if so, if so, if Peter, James and John 223 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:44.320 were able to just sort of pass through into a 224 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.240 spiritual realm, then that means perhaps they not only did 225 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:51.080 they see Moses Elijah, but they could have perhaps seen other. 226 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.559 Things, yeah, or that the spiritual realm came to them. 227 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.799 But yes, yeah, yeah. So so anyways, you have this 228 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.960 where where Peter, James and John know who Elijah and Moses, 229 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.080 which means there's a conscious awareness of an individual and 230 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:08.240 knowledge beyond their current knowledge base. Right right where Paul says, 231 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.559 we we know only partially now, but then we will 232 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.320 know completely. That's a very different thing. The Bible talks 233 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:19.360 about the marriage supper of the Lamb and and a 234 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:23.559 feast right and everybody's feasting and celebrating together. There's a 235 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:27.600 consciousness and an engagement in things we normally do as 236 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:32.159 humans today. They're sitting around a great feast, they're celebrating Jesus. 237 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:35.799 They recognize Jesus. He says, we will know and be known. 238 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:41.919 The Bible says, so, uh, there's there's Basically, I think 239 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:45.799 people struggle with their concept of heaven. That's that's it. 240 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:50.200 And we've talked about this before. But so Jesus said, 241 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.759 I go and prepare a place for you. When when 242 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:58.240 when we read the part with with Lazarus and the 243 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:02.879 rich Man and Abraham, at that time the place of 244 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:07.879 the dead seemed to have paradise and judgment right, Jesus 245 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.320 says in one passage, and in hell the rich man 246 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.840 opened up his eyes, lifted up, his eyes called out 247 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:19.840 to Abraham. So you have paradise and hell nearer, then, 248 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:25.080 the Bible says at Jesus. During Jesus' time in the tomb, 249 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.320 Corinthian says, he leads captivity captive, and a lot of 250 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:33.240 theologians believe that means he took then those that were 251 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.000 in paradise, not those in hell, but those are in 252 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.320 paradise to the place that he prepares for us. Jesus said, 253 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.159 I go and prepare a place for you. That's what 254 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.080 we think of is heaven. In my father's house. There's 255 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.360 many rooms right now, John fifteen, Right right, we think 256 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.080 of that. So there's a place. And if it were 257 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.559 not so, I would have told you I'm going to leave, 258 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:52.000 and when I'm going to come back and get you 259 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:53.759 and take you to where I'm that you may be 260 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:57.639 where I am. But then when it's all done, you 261 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:00.440 get to the end of the Book of Revelation, Book 262 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:02.960 a Revelation says that God finally destroys the heaven and 263 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.480 the earth, and everything is done. While there's this great 264 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:10.399 judgment in eternity. There's the judgment see to Christ, there's 265 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:14.000 the great White Throne judgment. Everybody's going to stand before 266 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.200 God in that moment. And then when that's all done, 267 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:19.440 the Bible says, he said, behold, I make everything new. 268 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:22.240 Lookie makes a new Heaven and a new Earth. When 269 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.399 he talks about heaven, he's talking about atmosphere, he's talking 270 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.440 about space, and he says, I'm making a new Earth. 271 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:30.840 And he says, I'm going to be with them, and 272 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:33.360 I will be there. God, they will be my people. Right, 273 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.639 and describes there'll be no more tears, There'll be no 274 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.000 more disease, There'll be nothing. And it says that the 275 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:42.159 new Jerusalem comes down to Earth, and this new Jerusalem 276 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:46.519 is fifteen hundred miles cubed, fourteen hundred, fourteen hundred miles high, 277 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:51.399 fourteen hundred miles wide, fourteen hundred miles deep. And this 278 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.600 city that comes down, this new Jerusalem that comes down 279 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.480 to the new planet Earth that God makes. I think 280 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:00.840 that's the place Jesus said I'm going to make for you, right, 281 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:02.759 that's the place you and I think of as heaven. 282 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.159 But God's plan is to meld. Then the spiritual, this 283 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:10.240 new Jerusalem with the new physical that he creates on earth. 284 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.039 And then he's taking us back to what He always 285 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:15.399 originally planned in the garden for Adam and Eve, right 286 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.320 this perpetual communion with Him and full on human society 287 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:20.960 the way it was supposed to be. So the Bible 288 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.600 describes that new city, that new Jerusalem, has twelve gates 289 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.919 and commerce coming in and out. There's kingdoms and rulers, 290 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.960 and there's food, and there's animals, and there's all that. 291 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:36.360 There's trees, there's rivers, there's all the things that makes 292 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:39.720 up a perfect paradise that we were supposed to be 293 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:42.519 in in the Garden of Eden that sin broke, God 294 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.879 brings it back. And now just as Adam and Eve 295 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.600 could walk with God in the spirit even while they 296 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.440 were flesh, we will be able to do the same thing. 297 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.840 We live both in the spiritual realm and the spiritual 298 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.000 realm combined. What died when we died was the spirit 299 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.559 side of us, right when we died in sin. Even 300 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:01.799 though our bodies are alive, we died in sin, and 301 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.639 the spirit side died of a died in us. Christ 302 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:08.080 then resurrects the spirit side of us and in eternity, 303 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:09.720 we'll have the ability to live both in the physical 304 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.240 and spiritual. That's what that is. So these questions, of course, 305 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:15.039 you're going to know people, You're going to know your name, 306 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:16.039 You're going to know events, You're going to know a 307 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.200 those things. But God's going to wipe every tear from 308 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.559 our eyes. We're not going to have grief over what 309 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:24.399 we experienced on Earth. It's going to be gratitude and 310 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.879 awareness learning. Hey, not going to do that again, right. 311 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:32.639 So let me ask you this question. So it says 312 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:36.039 answering your questions in heaven. So when you go to heaven, 313 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.840 are there any questions off the top of your head 314 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:42.639 that you think? Man, I'm gonna definitely ask. 315 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.360 Oh, we've said that so many times, haven't we have we? Yeah, 316 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:47.240 we've said that on the thing. Hey, when I get 317 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:48.360 to have it, I'm going to ask. 318 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.639 Oh, just in passing yea, yeah, yeah, gee, I wonder 319 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:52.679 about that. Yeah, but off the top of your head 320 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.720 now without reading a passage in the moment, so I'll 321 00:15:55.720 --> 00:16:00.679 throw out one. Okay, explain to me how dinosaurs were 322 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.360 on the arc? Were they on the arc or not 323 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.799 on the arc? Like, what's the timeline. Right, So we 324 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:08.799 know that dinosaurs, by the way, existed with mankind. Right, 325 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:14.600 So Joe talks about Leviathan. So yeah, I believe that dinosaurs, 326 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.000 by the way could have been on the arc because 327 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:18.399 there could have been baby dinosaurs. 328 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:23.440 Oh sure, yeah, in egg form, baby form something. Yeah. Yeah, 329 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.120 so yeah, so you'd ask God that question. I would 330 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:29.200 ask that's one of them. Yeah. I think I've got 331 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.720 a lot of whys. Yeah, why those are the Biggins 332 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.360 And I think that that's the purpose of him saying listen, 333 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:41.240 you only know in part right now, but in eternity 334 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.799 you'll know completely. I think it's going to make sense 335 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.799 when we start to see all of human existence from 336 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.559 God's perspective and not ours. I've used this illustration before. 337 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:51.759 When I was a kid, you know, we didn't have 338 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.600 a TV, so we read a lot of books. We 339 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:56.759 played a lot of games. My mom was always doing 340 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:01.159 some crafty things, so making cross ditch or something, and 341 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.880 I can remember on multiple occasions sitting down on the 342 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.920 floor playing. We had a really small living room, we 343 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:09.400 didn't have a family room, we didn't anything. It was 344 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.400 a really small house and the eight hundred and twenty 345 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.039 five square feet or something was the house vicious. So 346 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.519 we were together when I wake up in the morn 347 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:18.799 moent and we're like, all right, Jeff, get you close 348 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.599 on go side, right right right. But you know, during 349 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.240 the winter and stuff, we were all in the house together, 350 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:28.079 and so a little little house. I remember watching my mom. 351 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.119 She'd have a hoop. You ever watch somebody do cross ditch, 352 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:32.720 they'd have like a hoop, stretch the fabric out, and 353 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.240 then she's making these x's and yeah, my mom, my 354 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.200 mom did that. Yeah, all these crust dish things like this. 355 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.640 She'd make these beautiful, beautiful things. She frame them sometimes 356 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:43.920 really beautiful. I remember looking but from the bottom it 357 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.519 was just like tangled thread. It didn't make any sense 358 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.440 at all, right, very very little sense. I could start 359 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.279 to realize, oh, I think she must be making a 360 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:53.599 house or something. But on the on the bottom side, 361 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.440 it was just all threads hanging down. Yeah, and it 362 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.200 didn't look great. But then when you come up and 363 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:01.880 from her perspective it was it was a piece of art. 364 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:05.000 From my perspective, there was kind of a vague awareness 365 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.359 of what she was making. I couldn't read the words, 366 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.039 I couldn't really see the faces. I couldn't see all 367 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.480 the colors and things, but on her side, I could 368 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:14.279 see it. I think that's going to happen for us 369 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:15.920 is right now you and I are kaive in the 370 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:20.839 tangled mess looking from down here up to God's perspective. 371 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.759 But in eternity will be in God's perspective. And then 372 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.160 I think it all makes so much more sense. Right 373 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.480 now we live a life that's built around us and 374 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:34.759 our needs and our perspectives. And then we will see 375 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.480 God's big picture that he's He's doing and the and 376 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.720 well we'll see the whole story. Have you ever done 377 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:43.599 any of those things? Have you ever read a book 378 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.599 where the author starts off at the first chapter, like 379 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:48.799 in the middle of clearly a story they're going to tell. 380 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:51.039 Well, a lot of movies do that. Yeah, movies will 381 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:53.240 do that, right, Yeah, it'll start with the end in mind. 382 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:57.559 What was the movie? Oh, oh, yesterday. I got home 383 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:01.160 late last night, and Jenna also got home late from work, 384 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:04.680 my daughter, and so her boyfriend was over, her fiance 385 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.000 was over at the house, and so they kicked back 386 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:08.880 on the couch and Jenna was like, oh, I've never 387 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:10.519 watched the cartoon Mega mind. 388 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:11.799 Wow. 389 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:13.319 So she wanted to watch it. 390 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:15.240 It's animated film, by the way. 391 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:20.240 Jenna, Yeah, and John goes, okay, whatever this is. This 392 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:21.799 is how you know that they're not married yet. Is 393 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.400 He's like, yeah, whatever you want to watch is fine 394 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:25.519 as opposed to going to me, Hey, you want to 395 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.759 go downstairs watch a fight? Right, so our football game. 396 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.640 So she she turns it on and it starts off 397 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:37.920 with the character Mega mind talking about some surprising things, 398 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.640 and then you realize he's falling to his death, right, 399 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:46.319 and then just before something bad happens, then it cuts 400 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:49.640 to the beginning of the story where he's being born. Right, 401 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:52.640