Week 3 – Going To Heaven
February 1, 2025

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 3:1-2

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next…It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Then Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25:8

At Your Departure
You Will Be Alive!!!
You’re Conscious, You Can Think, Feel, Speak and Remember –
You Will Be You!!!

But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but the God of the living.
Mark 12:26-27

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26

There Are Two Exit Door
Death or Rapture

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep (Not Died or Dead), lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-15

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up (Greek- harpazo / Latin – rapturo) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18

Angels Usher You Into Heaven

So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 16:22

You Will Go North

For exaltation comes neither from the east
Nor from the west nor from the south.
Psalms 75:6

For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
Isaiah 14:13-13

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
Job 26:7

There is an empty place or void in the north of our universe. It was first discovered with the 200-inch telescope on Mount Palomar, California, and is now being studied by three separate observatories across the country.

This empty place has been found to be so large that it could contain 2,000 Milky Ways. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. That would mean that light traveling at 186,000 miles per second would take 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other. It’s possible that heaven is located in that void in the north of our universe.

At Your Departure You Immediately Enter God’s Presence!!!!
So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8

You Will Be Welcomed Into The “City of God”, The New Jerusalem, Mount Zion

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the city of our God, In His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
Psalms 48:1-2

Jerusalem
1,500 Miles Wide, 1,500 Miles Long, And 1,500 Miles High
(The Size of the Moon)
12 Gates With the Twelve Tribes of Israel
Foundation Is Twelve Layers
Foundation Is Filled With Precious Stones
Entire City Made of Gold and Jewels
Walls Made of Pure Diamond
Each Gate Made of One Pearl
City of Gold Clear As Glass
God Lights The City Through The Stones
A River From God’s Throne As Clear As Crystal
We Will See God Face To Face

1. In Heaven, There Is No Fear of Death, No Death At All
Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews 2:14-15

2. In Heaven, Sin Is Completely Defeated
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:50-52

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:53-58

3. In Heaven, There Is No More Curse
And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
Revelation 22:3

Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
Revelation 21:5

New Heaven
New Earth
New Relationships
New Revelations
New Body
New Mind

You Don’t Want To Miss It For Anything!!!
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
Revelation 21:7