Just before my father passed away I asked him about his baptism, recently revealed to me. As a youth, he’d been baptized in a Baptist church. He admitted, he had. Though he’d not attended church frequently, I knew that Dad belonged to The Lord, and I placed him in the hands of Lord Jesus. Today I know that Dad is in Heaven.
How can you get to Heaven?
There is only one way:
“‘You know the way where I am going,’ Lord Jesus said to His disciples.”
“Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?’”
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.’” (John 14:4-6)
God the Father is in Heaven and Lord Jesus sits at His right hand. (Mark 16:19)
He who believes upon the Name of The Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. (Acts 2:21)
Saved? From what?
From eternal death, from hell, from fiery flames, from the worm that doesn’t stop. From horrors. (Mark 9:42-48 Luke 16:19-31)
To believe and be saved is to be saved for God, to God and have eternal life in Heaven, where God’s throne is. Also present are believers who have gone before, angels, and Holy Spirit.
There is a heavenly city, full of dwelling places, a place prepared for believers. Lord Jesus prepared Heaven for His people. (John 14:2-3)
Free of sin, shame, pain, and death.
It is where all babies, both the born and unborn, and the children who have died now live. (Matthew 19:14)
Heaven is free of marriage, we are to be as the angels, joined only to God. (Matthew 22:23-30)
Before He came to Earth, believers in the true living God did not go to Heaven. They went to Abraham’s Bosom, also called Paradise. (Luke 23:43) It was a resting place for the faithful to God in the center of the earth (Matthew 12:40) until Lord Jesus came, preached (1Peter 3:18-19) and through the atonement (the wiping away of sin) of His Blood, made them one with Him. (John 17:20-21, 24)
Upon a believer’s death, angels carried his spirit to Abraham’s Bosom. Abraham’s Bosom was visible from Hell. Even a voice could be carried across the great chasm between the two places. There were cool waters where Abraham lived and fires of agony in Hell. (Luke 16:19-31)
In the Old Testament, Exodus 3:6, God spoke to Moses: “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
These patriarchs were yet alive, though dead in the flesh!
Lord Jesus echoed those Words, the Truth about life after death: “But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” (Matthew 22:31-32)
When Lord Jesus rose from the dead, Holy Spirit did the work. (Romans 8:11)
When Lord Jesus ascended to Heaven, Holy Spirit did the work. (Acts 1:2)
No longer are angels necessary to carry believers’ spirits to a resting place. (Luke 16:22) We have the Blood of Lord Jesus upon us, giving us access to Heaven and we have Holy Spirit within us, Who will carry us to Heaven, just as He carried Lord Jesus. (Romans 8:11)
After Lord Jesus rose from the grave, He ascended to Heaven. Those in Abraham’s Bosom, Paradise, went to Heaven with The Lord.(Ephesians 4:8-10) Abraham’s Bosom is closed. Something better was given to these saints.
When we go to Heaven, it will be as simple as closing our eyes on earth and in seconds, we’ll be with the Lord, where there is something much better waiting for us. (2Corinthians 5:8-9)
There is no other way to Heaven. And there is no other Jesus who will get you through the gate. The Jesus of Islam is false, and is seen as a prophet only. The Jesus of the occult is false and is just another idol. All other ways, methods and means are not true. The true Lord Jesus lives! (Matthew 27:52-53 1Corinthians 15:3-9)
The gates of Hell are yet open for those who choose not to name Jesus as Lord. (Revelation 1:18)
God wants you in Heaven. He loves you. This is why He sent Lord Jesus, so that we might be where He is, in Heaven.
Where will you choose to be?
(C) 2020 Kelly Jadon