Puritanhead
Puritan Board Professor
What can we ascertain from divine revelation about the continuity between this temporal realm and heaven? In particular, what of the relationships we forge here on earth during our lifetime with Christian brothers and sisters? The Scriptures inform us that the former things will pass away and melt in the fervent heat of the elements, when God consummates His Kingdom. Are there any verses that come to mind? I know when David lost his son, he said his son could not return to him, but one day he would go to him. Hence, an anticipation of family reunion.
I don't fully fathom the metaphysics of God's redemptive working, but I believe the transition to Heaven is in the twinkling of an eye upon our death. My intuitive sense tells me what we do in this lifetime echoes in eternity, including those we cultivate fellowship and friendship with, and especially our families.
Another thing that boggles my mind... if the former things pass away, does that include all memory of this sinful temporal realm we redeemed sinners now dwell in? Too my sinful mind, it seems more glorifying to God, that some faint, or selective memory of this sinful world would linger in the mind of the redeemed flock in the Heavenlies, that it might be to the glory of God, for us to know what we were redeemed from. Does that make any sense? Our Lord Jesus in his earthly ministry possessed cognizance of the reality of sin, and knowledge of good and evil, and yet it did not taint him, nor malign his nature, for He was perfect and without sin. Couldn't the resurrected believer being conformed to the image of Christ, be affored a similar cognizance of the former reality of sin, without tainting us with the leaven of sin, since we are raised in an incorruptible vessel and perfect, and thus without the taint of sin and its consequences?
I don't fully fathom the metaphysics of God's redemptive working, but I believe the transition to Heaven is in the twinkling of an eye upon our death. My intuitive sense tells me what we do in this lifetime echoes in eternity, including those we cultivate fellowship and friendship with, and especially our families.
Another thing that boggles my mind... if the former things pass away, does that include all memory of this sinful temporal realm we redeemed sinners now dwell in? Too my sinful mind, it seems more glorifying to God, that some faint, or selective memory of this sinful world would linger in the mind of the redeemed flock in the Heavenlies, that it might be to the glory of God, for us to know what we were redeemed from. Does that make any sense? Our Lord Jesus in his earthly ministry possessed cognizance of the reality of sin, and knowledge of good and evil, and yet it did not taint him, nor malign his nature, for He was perfect and without sin. Couldn't the resurrected believer being conformed to the image of Christ, be affored a similar cognizance of the former reality of sin, without tainting us with the leaven of sin, since we are raised in an incorruptible vessel and perfect, and thus without the taint of sin and its consequences?
