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Amazing Facts

Heaven

Joe Crews

Heaven Part 1

Heaven Part 2

Heaven Part 3

Modern research has extended the average lifespan by its amazing new medical discoveries.

How far can science go in prolonging human life?

I'll be back in a moment with news about a breakthrough which will add centuries to the average present lifespan.

♪ Hello, this is Joe Cruz and the Amazing Facts broadcast, facts which affect you.

You know, friends, our world teems with advertising gimmicks about products designed to preserve or restore youth.

Many millions are being spent each year for highly touted rejuvenators and artificial age erasers.

The world has simply stormed after every possible plan for staying young or at least for looking young.

The sale of hair rinses and other artificial aids to disguise the marks of age have set new records during the past year.

This frantic pursuit of youth is understandable, perhaps, but years wait for no 1.

The wrinkles form, the body deteriorates, until finally death calls upon every human being.

In spite of shots, drugs, antibiotics, and every medical aid, that last moment comes to the highest and the lowest, the rich and the poor alike.

Now it is true the life span has been extended by some amazing medical breakthroughs in certain disease studies.

Geriatric medicine, for instance, is becoming a major field of practice as facilities for dependent elderly are expanded under the government planning.

Their living accommodations are not perfect and their years become more wearisome as infirmities increase, but life at least has been prolonged, it has been extended.

Now listen, friends, a breakthrough is nearing that will eliminate the problems of the elderly poor and make the whole poverty program absolutely obsolete.

That breakthrough is a breaking through the clouds of heaven by Jesus Christ to deliver His people.

The great plan of God will finally be revealed in a beautiful new world as the eternal home of the saints.

The final act of God in restoring that which was lost will be to restore this earth to its original Edenic beauty and perfection.

Every pocket of poverty will be eliminated in that wonderful new earth.

Living conditions will be so ideal that human language cannot even portray it.

Now a lot of people are asking this question about this wonderful world of the future.

Are we going to recognize each other there?

My friends, we certainly will know 1 another.

We are not going to be just animated numbers.

We are going to know more in heaven than we know right here.

Let's look at a text now in 1 Corinthians 13, 22.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.

Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Now if I understand the English language at all, this means that we will know 1 another better when we get over there than we know each other here on this earth.

We misunderstand each other so easily, but we won't do that in the new earth.

We will know each other clearly and plainly.

The Bible further says that we will sit down with Abraham and Isaac in the kingdom.

We will have to know those people in order to sit down with them and eat around that great table.

Yes, many people have lost interest in going to heaven because they thought they wouldn't recognize their loved ones.

Listen, I look forward to heaven because I love reunions, and I love homecomings, and I like to see old friends and renew old acquaintances.

I don't think I could enjoy heaven either if I didn't know anybody there.

It would be terrible to think of going to heaven and not meeting a single individual that I have known in this world.

I want to meet a lot of people there who will come up to me and say, It was you who helped me get here.

Don't you want to hear that also, friends?

I think that part of the reward in heaven will be to have folks come and tell you that you helped them find their way to that beautiful place.

Now here is another text in Philippians 4, verse 3, And I entreat thee also, true yokefella, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with others my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

Now Paul said to those people in the early church, Your names are written down in heaven in the book of life.

Well, now, tell me, what was written down there?

Some strange angelic name, or the name that their mothers had given them at birth?

Why, of course, they had the same names written down, John, Dick, Tom, Elizabeth, Sarah, all written down in heaven, the very names they had in this earth.

Now I read in the book of Revelation about a vision of the beloved John, and he saw that great Holy City, the New Jerusalem that we are talking about, and as he got closer and closer to it, the glory of it almost overwhelmed him.

And then he saw 12 foundation stones, each with a different color of precious stones, and each 1 of them had a name written.

Do you remember the names written there, friends?

Well, they were the names of the 12 apostles, 1 of them on each foundation stone.

What a thrilling experience it must have been for him.

But now listen, those were the very same names that the Judean mothers had given their little babies when they were born.

You see, when Jesus called His disciples, He didn't change their names.

He didn't give them some strange mystical names when they became His disciples.

They kept the same names, and those names are written unto the 12 foundation stones of heaven, and our names are written down in heaven, just as we have them here.

All right, we are going to have a city home when we get there, and we will have a country estate also.

Jesus said that He had gone to prepare a mansion for us.

Now that, I am sure, would be the city hall.

He said, I go to prepare a place for you, John 14, 2.

And notice who He was to make that mansion for?

He said, for you, and you can put your own name in that text if you like to, because it's true.

He went to get a place ready, and your name will be on it.

I like that, because the Lord is a builder who knows exactly what I'd like to have the most.

Now, I visited a lot of people who built their own homes.

They drew the plans themselves, made it according to their own specifications, and yet they are never completely satisfied.

They say, you know, if I had to do this again, I would change that closet over there, or I wouldn't have this door like this.

Haven't you heard people say that, friends?

They are never quite pleased with it after it is built.

But the Lord knows exactly what we would like to have, and He is going to prepare a mansion for us that will please us and suit us exactly.

I think, in fact, the Lord is going to meet each 1 of us and show us through that holy city.

Surely He is going to conduct us down those golden streets and show us all the different places of interest in the New Jerusalem.

And we'll walk along beside the River of Life, for example, and he'll tell us about that tree which grows over the river, bearing 12 manner of fruit every year.

And as he takes us down 1 street after another, finally we're going to see a certain mansion.

Perhaps as soon as we see it, a responsive chord is going to strike in our heart, and we'll think, My, that's just what I've always wanted.

That's the kind of mansion I'd like to have.

And Jesus will interrupt and say, This is yours.

I've prepared it for you, and I knew exactly what you'd want, and this is made especially for you." Yes, friends, maybe we are using some imagination here, but don't you think that's the way it's going to be?

Jesus plainly said that He would prepare mansions, and He certainly will prepare 1 that will make us completely happy.

Then of course we are going to have a country home, but we are going to build that ourselves.

You remember in Isaiah 65 it tells about building houses and inhabiting them.

The whole beautiful world is before us and we can find the choice of spot that will fit our own personality and put our house right there.

I can just close my eyes sometimes and try to think of a place that would please me and I think of lots of them that would make me happy.

A place without any spot of sin, without any curse at all in the entire land.

I've talked to poor people whose homes had burned, destroying all their possessions.

I talked to 1 family who had robbers break in while they were gone, taking almost everything out of the house, even the bedclothes and the clothes in the closets were gone.

Now somebody says, well, I don't know how to build.

Listen, friends, don't think it will be laborious work, the kind you see poor carpenters doing in this world.

No, it's not going to be like that at all.

As for your building knowledge, don't worry about that either for a moment.

There will be no limit to what you can learn.

You will have a whole eternity before you to learn and understand.

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