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Monday, February 14, 2005
If I were Satan III: A Place is Called Heaven

What if you die today, what would you be doing? What if you die this moment and come before God, and He asks you, "Why I let you into My place?" About 78 percent of American people said and believed that they are going to Heaven. If 78 percent of the people believe in Heaven, do they know how they will go to there? Maybe they go to the church and religious activity; they might think that God will let them.

Turn to John 14 as we conclude the message series. Heaven is a real place, but we cannot just enter into the place. It is a place for those who truly accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. If those who are not accept Christ and will face Him at the great white throne, they choose to go to Hell. Hell is a real place and it's reality. Jesus talked about Hell as twice as much than Heaven. But where you go after this life? That's the question. Please read the first four verses in John 14:

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many room, if it were not so, I have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going." (John 14:1-4.)

In the Book of Revelation, Heaven has many angels that we can't count (5:11). There will be the New Earth and New Jerusalem when we die and live for eternity. Jesus said there will be many rooms in Heaven. On the final day, God will bring the New Jerusalem to the earth to prepare as a wedding ceremony (21:2). He will call all His glooms, the Church, to celebrate with Him. New Jerusalem will be 1,400 miles in length and as wide and high as it long (that is about 2,200 km) and 144 cubits thick by man's measurement (that's about 65 meters or 200 feet). There will be no more pains, tears, problems in our lives. There will be no more handicapped. The land will be altogether and it will not be separated. For now, we are living on this physical world with 30 percent of the land in whole earth, but in haven there will be 100 percent of the land. There will be fruits, food, and drink that we never will be hunger and thirsty again. There will be a lot activities are going on that we never will get tire and worry from them. All the problems which we are experiencing now will be disappeared when we enter the Heaven gate.

But there will be only few of us enter the kingdom of God (Matthew 7:14). Although Jesus doesn't like to hear that many people will find wide gate and spend the eternality in Hell, He does have no choice to send them to Hell. In Heaven, there will be no more sins. Sins cannot enter the Heaven, because God wants us to be peace, enjoy, and loved our lives each other in His place. He knows our struggling against sins in this moment of the time. He knows that we want to be saved by the grace of God through Jesus Christ. He knows that some of us want to be saved by our own deeds and He lets them go until they would come to Him, but He is still calling him/her to lead into the right direction. Jesus said that we do not let our hearts be troubled and be trusted in God and in Him (John 14:1-2). He didn't to go back to the Heaven, so that we could have many pains. No. He went back to the Heaven to prepare a place for us to rest and enjoy our lives for eternality. While we are living on this earth, God wants to have the personal relationship with each of us. James said, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything" (1:2-4).

There will be a rapture of the Church before the Antichrist would appear on the mass of Media. There will be many believers will be disappear at the twinkle of eyes. Airplane pilots will be disappeared because they believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Out of the streets, there will be many people will be left behind and will have many confusions and sadness, because they miss the opportunity to repent their sins and go with Jesus Christ to His place. There will be the second rapture of the Church during the Great Tribulation. But the people will experience many pains and sufferings before Jesus comes again to those are left behind.

When we stand before God, the book of life will be opened to us. This book will be determined to spend our eternal life. John wrote, "Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books." (Rev 20:11-12.) If God can't find any of us in the book of life, then He will throw that person to the Lake of Fire (Rev 20:14-15). To understand the place is called the Lake of Fire, we cannot put the fire out, because it's very hotter than the earthly heat. In Luke 16, Jesus described the Hell as torment. Even the rich man is in the torment and is called for help; God doesn't change His mind to take him out from burning furnace.

But God gave us the second chance to repent our sins while we are physically living. He brought His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us, 2000 years ago, to demonstrate that He loves and cares us, so we may have the eternal life with Him.

Are you saved? Are your love ones and friends saved in the grace of God through Jesus Christ? The purpose of this ministry is to share with you how much God loves you and me and wants to come in our own life to take us through any obstacles in our daily life. As Jesus said, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms, if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." (John 14:1-3

If you are lukewarm in your relationship with Jesus Christ and want to know Him as your personal Savior and Lord of your life, please consider asking Him to forgive your sins and invite Him into your life. Paul says, "That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believed and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." (Romans 10:9-10.) If you have done in your private room or workplace, then you need to tell to your friends or love ones about what you have done, so they may rejoice with you and want to have that relationship with Christ in their own life. There are many occultisms in the world, which do not know the love of God and His great plan for those who believe in Him. As it is written in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


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