A LOOK INTO HEAVEN "SIX"

 

PART SIX

IS ANYBODY SLEEPING?

Man I sure do enjoy my sleep this side of heaven, my body gets tired and sometimes exhausted, I just need to lay down and rest. But will we need to do that in heaven?

In Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested from all His work which He had done.

Now we know that God needs no rest, He was before He began to create the earth, He was and always was and always will be. So what happened and why did God rest from all His work? God, knew all life that He had created would need to rest their physical bodies, so in that moment God created Rest, not for Himself but for mankind.

Multiple times in scripture it speaks of entering into His rest. That time we stop trying through our works and begin to trust in Jesus and His finished work.

Matthew 11:28 Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Will our incorruptible bodies require sleep probably not, for we are at rest in Christ forever and ever and ever. In the beginning God created both day and night for us a time to work and a time to rest. But in the new heaven and the new earth there will be neither, sun, moon or stars. We cannot know for certain if we will sleep, or just spend time resting, fellowshipping with our loved ones and the saints of old, worshipping our Savior. But we won't be floating around on fluffy clouds with halos, wings and playing harps. 

Heaven will not be boring, angels around, Jesus presence, God in all His authority sitting on His throne, the Holy Spirit present, the singing, the shouting, the dancing in heaven. The eating! WHAT! Will we eat in heaven? We'll see! 😁

EATING WHAT WILL WE EAT?

Oh like Jesus did after His Resurrection we will have a body like His, which is very capable of eating.

Luke 24:40-43 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and feet. But while they still did not believe for joy and marveled, He said to them, "Have you any good here?" So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb. And He took it and ate in their presence.

It doesn't say that Jesus was actually hungry, or did He want to show them He was not a ghost but in fact the risen Savior.

Mark 14:25 Assuredly I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day I drink with I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

Some scholars believe this could be speaking of the earthly millennial kingdom, but I must say perhaps it is speaking of the Marriage Supper Of The Lamb.

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage supper of the Lamb, has come and His wife has made herself ready.

In Jewish customs The Marriage Supper lasted 7 days, it was the consummation of the bride and groom. Notice how suddenly the church has changed from being called the bride to being called His wife.

Look with me in Revelation 22:1-2 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for healing of the nations.

This fruit we will access to and eat from. Remember the tree of life in the Garden of Eden, had been forbidden to eat from, but now we are given the freedom to eat as we are now in our new eternal bodies which has been completely freed from sin and we will live forever and ever.

While talking to a friend about this subject we both thought that it will be as it was in the Garden of Eden before man's sin brought a curse on the land.

Genesis 1:29 And God said, "See I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it shall be good".

Here is the list of the kinds of food that was eaten in Jesus day and in the Old Testament. If we are eating most likely it will not be the high sugar content we enjoy now, but rather the healthy meals as was eaten in Jesus day, also most likely no meat going back to the garden of Eden:

MEATS: goat, lamb, cows, small fowl, fish

BREADS: wheat grain made into a flat bread

FRUITS: fresh figs, melon, apricots, dates, dried fruits

OTHER: cheese and curdled milk (compared to liquid yogurt) made from sheep or goats milk

Olives, onions, cucumbers, lettuce, pine nuts, lentil stew, soups, garlic

HERBS & OIL: olive oil, cumin, black cumin, coriander, salt.

I sure didn't see my honey buns in that list 😁.

The truth is we cannot know the extent of our eating and what we will eat, nor how often we will eat. We do know that whatever we eat or not eat, being in the presence of Jesus is more important than food.

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we shall be like Him as He is.

NEXT BLOG POST WILL FINISH THIS "A LOOK INTO HEAVEN."

We will look at what we will actually do in heaven. And we will look at the New Heaven and New Earth and who is not there.