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1 | Is "Paradise" the same as heaven? | Luke 23:43 | June | 347 | ||
Paradise is not the same as heaven. Paradise was an underground compartment that was a place of comfort called Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:22) where all the Old Testament saints who had accepted the Lord were kept after death, awaiting the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Across from paradise was a place of agony, and between the two, God placed a chasm that was fixed so one could not pass over to the other. The good news is that when Jesus Christ died and was buried in the heart of the earth, he wasn't just lying there. He was conqueroring sin and death so that you and I may live with him in heaven for eternity. And when it was finished, I can just imagine Jesus handing the saints the keys to the kingdom of heaven just as he described to Peter in Matt. 16:19. I suppose the theif on the cross didn't have a very long stay in paradise. Revelation 1:18 says that Jesus Christ still holds the keys of death and Hades. Eventually, these people will be thrown into the lake of fire. Say yes to Jesus Christ. He is a free gift. God is a God of love, but he is also just. |
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2 | Is "Paradise" the same as heaven? | Luke 23:43 | soladescriptura | 434 | ||
Eph 4:8 Therefore it says, "WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN." I believe Jesus did this, and took the Thief with him to 'paradise' or heaven. |
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3 | Is "Paradise" the same as heaven? | Luke 23:43 | June | 580 | ||
Jesus did not ascend to heaven until after the resurrection. And before his death and his redemptive work on the cross, the red letter words of Jesus in John 6:46 says, No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God. How do explain where the Old Testaments believers that had died were? Luke 23:43 says, Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, TODAY you will be with me in paradise." Jesus still had three days and three nights to be in the heart of the earth. Matt. 12:40 "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three nights in the heart of the earth." We know that his body was not buried in the earth, because the Bible tell us he was placed in a tomb. |
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