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NASB | John 14:2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 14:2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you. |
Bible Question:
Greetings Hank, I know it's been a while since this discussion, but I was strolling around and came across the comments here and found them to be quite interesting. It also stirred a question in me. Is the Lord actually describing heaven here or do you think it's more probable that He is assuring His disciples that a "place" is being prepared especially for them in the Father’s family. The reason I ask this question is, often throughout the Bible, the mention of house is in reference to family. Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. In telling them, “I go and prepare a place for you” could it be that He was on his way to be offered up and thus make a way for them to become sons of God and members of the Father’s house [family]? In verse 23 of the same chapter the same word again is used, but translated as abode in the KJV. Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He's not saying that He is going to heaven to build a place, but rather, "we [He and the Father] will come unto him [the believer] to make their abode. Bendiciones! Aspilos |
Bible Answer: Hi Aspilos, I appreciate the point that you are making. Jesus in this passage of Scripture is not only speaking of leaving to prepare a place for us. And by the way, He is speaking as God when He says in verse 1, "Believe in God, believe also in Me." If they had known this Spirit, this God who had been with them so long, they would have known the Father. But now this Man is going back to the Father. When the Man gets back to the Father, they will send the Spirit of truth. He will come to us. John 14:28 has between 7 -10 pronouns of Deity in it depending on the translation and the manuscript used. Rest assured that the One indwells us. So I praise God with you that we can experience having Him with us and we can be in Him even now and we can know the everlasting Life. Joshua 24:24 says, "And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God and we will obey His/ voice." John 14:6, "Jesus said to him, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life/; no one comes to the Father, but through Me." John 6:65, "And He was saying, "For this reason I/ have said to you, that no one can come to Me, unless it has been granted him from [My, NKJ] (Father)...to whom shall we go? You/ have words of eternal life." This Life/ has words of eternal life from the Father. John 6:69, "And we have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy (One) of God." I hope that some of these comparisons make sense to you. Of course the parentheses and slashes are in my personal copy and not in the NASB. Thank you for your thoughts. From the heart, Ray |