Just started reading Randy Alcorn's book on 'Heaven' and am slowly understanding why I have a wrong perception that Heaven is of angels and us singing our whole eternity filled lives away to God. The simple reason: my information lacks a biblical source. I have turned instead to what the world in its news and ideas tells me. Here's what Alcorn wrote about the urgency of us knowing about Heaven and Hell:
[As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent. Unless Christ returns soon, we're all going to die. We don't like to think about death; yet, worldwide, 3 people die every second, 180 every minute, and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250,000 people every day go to either Heaven or Hell... Jesus came to deliver us from the fear of death, "so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death" (Hebrews 2:14-15)... What delivers us from the fear of death? What takes away death's sting? Only a relationship with the person who died on our behalf, the One who has gone ahead to make a place for us to live with Him (John 14:1-3). If we don't know Jesus, we will fear death and its sting - and we should.]
Who is your Mediator who can save you from death's sting? It can't be yourself. The Bible says so. So think more about after death my friends... it is not an eternity away as we think...
