In the last post I wrote about the new bodies that all Christian believers will receive when they go to meet the Lord in the air at the rapture. It may be hard to imagine, but it is true. Everyone will be pinching them selves to see if it's real, but there will be no pain there so I don't think that will work. We will just have to accept God's goodness and kind generosity that He so graciously provides to all those who believe in Him.
Everyone in heaven will be made perfect so that we will be like Jesus. Everyone you meet there will be kind and godly. Even you yourself will be as loving and as kind as the Lord wanting to show love to everyone that you meet. No one there will ever talk behind your back ever again. No one will ever laugh at you or make fun of you. You will always be accepted by everyone forever and will experience the perfect love and joy of the Lord.
No one will ever try to harm you in heaven or take advantage of you or be abusive toward you in any way ever! You will be in a completely safe and secure environment forever throughout eternity.
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." -2 Peter 3:10
"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." -2Peter 3:13
So after the final judgment we can expect that God will make all things new. That's what the bible says is going to happen. So that new heavens and earth is going to be in heaven. In fact the entire universe that is new will be in heaven. Because our new heavenly glorified bodies are physical and spiritual they will match the new environment of heaven perfectly. In heaven we will be in a physical environment with new laws of physics. And we will interact with the spirit realm at the same time. These two realms, the physical and the spiritual will be inseparable in heaven. They will be made one together. The only thing that will be separate from us is hell and the lake of fire which are separated from God for eternity. We will be able to eat for instance and at the same time see the activities of the angels working around us.
Speaking of eating, there will be fruit in heaven! In the book of Revelation the bible speaks of trees:
"In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." -Revelation 22:2
Possibly this fruit is the same as the fruits of the Spirit? I'm not sure. There are nine fruits of the Spirit spoken of in the bible that I know of. They are in the following scriptures:
"22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering(patience), gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance(self-control): against such there is no law." -Galatians 5:22,23
I am missing three fruits if there are twelve different ones on these trees in heaven. If I find out what they are, I will come back and update my post to include it. The leaves are for healing but they are not a fruit. This would make a great bible study. There again maybe these twelve fruits on the trees represent something other than the nine fruits of the Spirit.
Please see my next post for the continuation of this article entitled: What will heaven be like? (Part 3)
