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My Idea of Heaven |
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 "Heaven is not the end; it's only the beginning! Who knows what other worlds we may have to conquer, what other universes we may yet learn to rule!" |
For David, Heaven was not the end of life's
road, but just the beginning. He rejected some traditional "Christian" concepts
of the Afterlife, which often portray Heaven as a place where nothing ever happens. Heaven
was not only full of joy, happiness and rest from this life's weary toil, David wrote, but
also a place where each individual would be busy and challenged. "You're going to have lots of work to do in the Afterlife, but it's going to be a lot easier [than now], thank the Lord! There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. ... You're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy! -- You'd be unhappy if you didn't!" [143] "Some [Christians] are sitting down twiddling their thumbs waiting for Jesus to come, when they think He will solve all their problems and they'll just sit around and play their harps all day. "They'll be working 24 hours a day to establish the Kingdom of Christ on Earth, and it's going to be a big job, no simple small thing! If you think just because people have gone on to be with the Lord that their job is over, we can prove from the Bible [that] their job is far from complete! ... The spirit world is a heaven-of-a-lot busier than this hell-on-earth! "Heaven is not the end; it's only the beginning! God only knows how much more we'll have to conquer after we've conquered the Earth and all the souls who have ever lived on it and all the problems! Who knows what other worlds we may have to conquer, what other universes we may yet have to learn to rule! My idea of Heaven is not floating around on a cloud strumming a harp by some gift of God! That would be my idea of death! ... And it doesn't seem to be God's idea of Heaven either! His universe is full of movement, and He'll never stop! "Well, that's my idea and I believe it's God's and His Bible's idea, and we're a long way from the end! In fact, according to the Bible, for [Christians] there isn't going to be an end! -- Eternity has no end!" [144] |
