Heaven and then Resurrection? | What Comes Next Week 2 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Revelation 6:9-11 NIV: When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

The Now Heaven: An Intermediate Heaven

The Later Heaven: An Eternal Heaven

Revelation 21:1-2 NIV: Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

The Now Heaven — What Can We Conclude?

1. When you die on earth, you move to .

Revelation 6:9 NIV: … I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

2. When you move to heaven, are still !

3. In heaven, you will have a !

Revelation 6:10 NIV: They called out in a loud voice…

4. In heaven, you will need to .

Revelation 6:10 NIV: …“How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”

5. In heaven, you will know at least something about what’s happening on earth.

6. In heaven, there will be !

Revelation 6:11 NIV: Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

7. In heaven, we will be part of the universal church.

We Await the Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15:50-55 ESV: I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

So What?

1. What awaits you is worth for.

2. What awaits you is worth for.

3. What awaits you is worth for.