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NASB | Revelation 10:6 and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS IN IT, that there will be delay no longer, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 10:6 and swore [an oath] by [the name of] Him who lives forever and ever, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS IN IT, that there will be delay no longer, [Neh 9:6] |
Bible Question:
What does the Bible say, if anything about what we will "do" in Heaven aside from worshiping our Savior. I have been asked this question and I have not been able to find anything as of yet. |
Bible Answer: Hi Sandy, Very good question Sandy and the Bible does indeed tell us what the duties will be for those "chosen" to go to heaven will be. Interestingly too, is the fact that the Bible tells us what the vast majority of us humans will do here on earth for an eternity. But for your question you asked, the Bible tells us the following: Speaking of those that will go to heaven, Revelation 20:6 says, “They will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.” Daniel 7:27 “‘And the kingdom and the rulership and the grandeur of the kingdoms under all the heavens were given to the people who are the holy ones of the Supreme One. Their kingdom is an indefinitely lasting kingdom, and all the rulerships will serve and obey even them.’ 1 Cor. 6:2: “Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world?” -Catholic Dy version. But you notice, I mentioned “chosen”? Here in 2 Thess. 2:13, 14 we are told who chooses those that will go to heaven: “We are obligated to thank God always for you, brothers loved by Jehovah, because God selected you from the beginning for salvation by sanctifying you with spirit and by your faith in the truth. To this very destiny he called you through the good news we declare, for the purpose of acquiring the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” And notice how Rom. 9:6, 16 adds to our understanding of this when it says: “Not all who spring from Israel are really ‘Israel.’ . . . It depends, not upon the one wishing nor upon the one running, but upon God, who has mercy.” So, God has “chosen” or “selected” those who will go to heaven. It’s interesting too that he has told us in the Bible exactly how many of us will go to heaven. Luke 12:32: “Have no fear, little flock, because your Father has approved of giving you the kingdom.” Rev. 14:1-3: “I saw, and, look! the Lamb [Jesus Christ] standing upon the Mount Zion [in heaven; see Hebrews 12:22-24], and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. . . . And they are singing as if a new song . . . and no one was able to master that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth.” Rev. 7:4-8: “I heard the number of those who were sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, Rom. 2:28, 29: “He is not a Jew who is one on the outside, nor is circumcision that which is on the outside upon the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one on the inside, and his circumcision is that of the heart by spirit, and not by a written code.” Gal. 3:26-29: “You are all, in fact, sons of God through your faith in Christ Jesus. . . . There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one person in union with Christ Jesus. Moreover, if you belong to Christ, you are really Abraham’s seed, heirs with reference to a promise.” Some believe that the 144,000 is just a symbolic number. Is it? The answer is indicated by the fact that, after mention of the definite number 144,000, Revelation 7:9 refers to “a great crowd, which no man was able to number.” If the number 144,000 were not literal it would lack meaning as a contrast to the “great crowd.” Viewing the number as literal agrees with Jesus’ statement at Matthew 22:14 regarding the Kingdom of the heavens: “There are many invited, but few chosen.” So now we have two groups; the 144,000 and the great crowd. What does the Bible say of the “great crowd”? Revelation does not say of them, as it does of the 144,000, that they are “bought from the earth” to be with Christ on heavenly Mount Zion.—Rev. 14:1-3. The description of them as “standing before the throne and before the Lamb” indicates, not necessarily a location, but an approved condition. The expression “before the throne” (Greek, e·no´pi·on tou thro´nou; literally, “in sight of the throne”) does not require that they be in heaven. Their position is simply “in sight” of God, who tells us that from heaven he beholds the sons of men.—Ps. 11:4; compare Matthew 25:31-33; Luke 1:74, 75; Acts 10:33. But we must realize that the “great crowd in heaven” referred to at Revelation 19:1, 6 is not the same as the “great crowd” of Revelation 7:9. Simply put, the ones in heaven are not described as being “out of all nations” or as ascribing their salvation to the Lamb; they are angels. Thus, the expression “great crowd” is used in a variety of contexts in the Bible.—Mark 5:24; 6:34; 12:37. I hope this gives you something to look into for an in depth study of Bible truths. |
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