Resources by Topic: Heaven

Randy Alcorn discusses the topic of Heaven on the Janet Mefferd Show. March 2010.

There could have been no atonement without the incarnation. “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

Common Elements of Near Death and “After Death” Experiences

Our unbiblical assumption that Heaven won’t be a real, tangible, earthly place blinds us to what Scripture actually says.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C. S. Lewis

It is talking about the present Heaven, apparently, since the New Earth comes on the scene after the final judgment, and Revelation isn’t about the New Earth until Revelation 21-22. However, some aspects of the present Heaven may be shared by the future post-resurrection Heaven.

I believe the New Jerusalem is right now in the present (intermediary) Heaven because of my understanding of Revelation 10.

Heaven is an actual place, in a real location, designed by God with people in mind.

Video of Randy Alcorn taking about reader responses to his Heaven book.

God is the Father of this family we enjoy. We rightly sense that our relationship with them has not been terminated, only interrupted, and we know that some day each of us will be taken from this world, in one moment separated from some we love and in the same moment reunited with others we love, and above all with our Lord.

Randy Alcorn addressing he questions, "Why are people afraid to die?" at the Seed Company Invitational 2007.

So we will not be complete, fully perfected human beings until our sinless spirit is joined to a body no longer under the curse in the resurrection.

Hebrews 12 speaks of the Heavenly City as apparently already existing in the present Heaven, but we don't know exactly how that works...

It is the intermediate hell that is cast into the lake of fire.(Rev. 20:14)