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November 21
Saturday


BEYOND
IMAGINATION

READ:
Revelation 21:1-8
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[It has not] entered into
the heart of man the
things which God has
prepared for those who
love Him.
__1 Corinthians 2:9
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A college professor at a Christian school perceived that his students held a distorted view of heaven; they considered it to be static and boring. So, to stir their imaginations, he asked them these questions:

"Do you wish you would wake up tomorrow morning to discover that the person you loved most passionately loved you even more? Wake up hearing music you have always loved but had never heard with such infinite joy before? Rise to the new day as if you were just discovering the Pacific Ocean? Wake up without feeling guilty about anything at all? Wake up breathing God as if he were air? Loving to love Him? And loving everybody else in the bargain?"

In response to that professor's intriguing questions, the students all lifted their hands. If that's what heaven will be like, and even infinitely more so, they certainly wanted to be there.

"I go to prepare a place for you," Jesus told His disciples (John 14:2). We all share the desire--really a deep-down yearning--to be in that glorious home forever. It is a place of indescribable bliss. And the supreme blessing will be the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself!

__Vernon Grounds
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`````````````````````When we all get to heaven,`````````````````
`````````````````What a day of rejoicing that will be!```````````````
``````````````````````When we all see Jesus,````````````````````
``````````````We'll sing and shout the victory. __Hewitt````````````
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The greatest pleasures of earth cannot be compared
to the joys of heaven.

****************Today's Bible Reading __ Revelatio 21:1-8*********

1 Now I saw a new heaven
and a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth
had passed away. Also there
was no more sea. 2 Then I,
John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a loud voice
from heaven saying,
"Behold, the tabernacle of
God is with men, and He
will dwell with them, and
they shall be His people.
God Himself will be with
them and be their God.

4 And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes;
there shall be no more
death, nor sorrow, nor
crying. There shall be no
more pain, for the former
things have passed away."

5 Then He who sat on the
throne said, "Behold, I
make all things new." And
He said to me, "Write, for
these words are true and
faithful."

6 And He said to me, "It is
done! I am the Alpha and
the Omega, the Beginning
and the End. I will give of
the fountain of the water of
life freely to him who
thirsts. 7 He who overcomes
shall inherit all things, and I
will be his God and he shall
be My son. 8 But the
cowardly, unbelieving
abominable, murderers,
sexually immoral, sorcerers,
idolaters, and all liars shall
have their part in the lake
which burns with fire and
brimstone, which is the
second death."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The coming of the new heavens and new earth are described in
verse 1. This event is also taught in Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; Matthew
5:18; and 2 Peter 3:10-13. Peter calls it "the home of righteousness"
(2 Peter 3:13 NIV). __SIM KAY TEE