TOPICS PAGE: http://www.eztech.com/bibletalks/topics.htm EMAIL: bibletalks@eztech.com Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Bible Talks about HEAVEN AND HELL. HEAVEN: (Heaven is not earned by good behavior. Heaven is not for people who have lived a life of obedience to laws, never hurt anyone, followed the Golden Rule, etc.). HEAVEN IS FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST. JOHN 14:6 "Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." ACTS 16:31 "So they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." EPHESIANS 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast." HEAVEN IS A PLACE OF PEACE, JOY AND PLEASURE. PSALM 16:11 "You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore" MATTHEW 5:12 "Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven,...." JOHN 10:28 "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand." ROMANS 8:18 "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." GOD CREATED SEVERAL HEAVENS. GENESIS 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Note the plural "heavens"). PSALM 115:15,16 May you be blessed by the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, (Plural) are the Lord's; But the earth He has given to the children of men." 2 CORINTHIANS 12:2 "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago.... - such a one was caught up to the third heaven." HEAVEN IS A HOME, A PLACE, A PARADISE, A REPOSITORY. DEUTERONOMY 26:15 "'Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven,...." MARK 16:19 "So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God." LUKE 23:43 "And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." JOHN 14:2 "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." 1 PETER 1:4 "...to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,...." THE BIBLE RECORDS MANY TANGIBLES AND INTANGIBLES AS COMING FROM HEAVEN. EXODUS 16:4 "Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you...." MALACHI 3:10 " Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it." MATTHEW 3:16 " Then Jesus, when He had been baptized, came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him." LUKE 17:29 "but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all." THE PRESENT HEAVENS AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY AND BE REPLACED WITH NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. 2 PETER 3:13 " Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." REVELATION 21:1 "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea." (A "new heaven and a new earth" is mentioned six times in the Bible). HELL: (The word "hell" is not in the Bible. But the Bible speaks of a place of eternal punishment. The word "hell" has been chosen to mean that terrible place. "Hades" is also sometimes used as a name for that place). THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT HELL. (Hell is reserved for people who have not believed in Jesus). MARK 16:16 ".... but he who does not believe will be condemned." JOHN 3:18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." HELL IS A PLACE OF EVERLASTING DARKNESS AND SUFFERING. MARK 9:43 ".... to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched." LUKE 16:23 "And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." 2 PETER 2:17 ".... to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever." CAN HELL BE LOCATED? (Heaven is above. Hell is below). PSALM 55:15 "Let death seize them; Let them go down alive into hell, ..." EZEKIEL 31:16 "'I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the depths of the earth." (Is hell beneath the surface of the earth?) HEAVEN IS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS. HELL IS FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN JESUS. In order to receive a particular Bible Talks, visit the web page at http://www.eztech.com/bibletalks/topics.htm to select a Bible Talks by topic. Click on the topic you want and print or read on the screen.