Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10132 The relationship between the Millennium and the eternal state is one of the most important structural questions in biblical eschatology. These are not the same thing, and confusing them distorts the prophetic picture Scripture paints. The Millennium is a defined period with specific characteristics and a definite end. The eternal state is what…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10095 The Millennium is not the final chapter in God’s redemptive story. A thousand years of Christ’s righteous rule on earth, remarkable as that period will be, gives way to a concluding series of events that brings the present created order to its end and ushers in the eternal state. What happens at the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10126 It may seem like an odd question, but it is one that many believers quietly wonder about: will we eat and drink in heaven? If our resurrection bodies are glorified and imperishable, will they need food? And if they do not need food, will we still enjoy it? The question touches on something…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10123 One of the more curious details in the Bible’s description of the eternal state is the statement in Revelation 21:1 that in the new heaven and the new earth, “the sea was no more.” For readers who love the ocean and find it among the most awe-inspiring features of the natural world, this…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10133 The question of whether God will destroy the present creation and replace it with something entirely new, or whether He will renew and transform what already exists, has been debated by careful Bible students for centuries. It is not a question on which the whole of Christian theology hangs, but it touches on…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10060 The Bible’s story doesn’t end with souls floating around in heaven forever. Instead, it culminates in “a new heaven and a new earth” where God dwells with His people in physical bodies on a renewed creation. This is the biblical vision of eternity, and understanding it transforms how we think about heaven, our…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10169 The question of where heaven is located is asked with genuine sincerity, and the honest answer is that Scripture gives us considerably less spatial information than many assume. The Bible speaks with absolute clarity about the reality of heaven, about what it is like, and about who is there. On the question of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10109 The idea that heaven might be boring is remarkably common, and it is rooted in a picture of the afterlife that owes far more to medieval art and popular caricature than to anything Scripture actually describes. Clouds, harps, white robes, and an eternity of singing the same hymn on repeat: this is the…