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Question from a reader: Isaiah 65:20 says “he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.” It sounds as if Isaiah is saying that in the new heavens and new earth people will die. How do you interpret this text?

It is not forever—we will be reunited in Heaven and never have to worry about leaving each other again, and my dad will be able to walk by me with no pain.

Books and Resources that Mostly Assume an Old Earth, and Books Specifically Defending a Young Earth.

Let me share with you some relevant excerpts from my book Heaven, related to a New Universe, other planets, aliens and space travel.

Scripture gives no indication of a “memory wipe” that will cause us not to recognize our loved ones and others we’ve known.

I am really torn on this one. There’s no way to know what products are made through forced labor of religious and political prisoners, though I would guess it would be less than 10 percent.

When a Christian dies, he or she enters into what theologians call the intermediate state, a transitional period between our past lives on Earth and our future resurrection to life on the New Earth.

We will have an eternal perspective, we will know that God has been just in his judgments, and will not be plagued by doubt.

In this one and half minute video clip, Randy Alcorn talks about how God's original plan for the earth is still His plan. God has never abandoned his original plan that righteous human beings will inhabit and rule the earth.

Many people have lost loved ones who didn’t know Christ. Some people argue that people in Heaven won’t know Hell exists. But this would make Heaven’s joy dependent on ignorance, which is nowhere taught in Scripture.

In this clip, Randy Alcorn advises us to not settle for distractions in life. Desiring God's Don't Waste Your Life

In this interview with Lee Strobel on Faith Under Fire, Randy Alcorn talks about what being face-to-face with God will be like.

I research extensively and love doing it. While what follows isn’t comprehensive, it does contain many of the books I read while working on If God Is Good.

Question from a reader: If when we die we are judged and go immediately to the intermediate Heaven as Randy states, how can Revelation 20:5 be true? This verse is talking about the transition period between the intermediate and the Eternal Heaven. Verse 5 is pre-eternal Heaven.