John 14:2-3

John 14:2-3

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."

He will come back when the Father says it is time. 

Jesus is away now preparing mansions for His bride (the Christians). 

He is preparing a place for us and when His Father says the time is right, 

He will come back for us and take us home with Him.

Heaven is a place and the eternal hope of the saved. 

Scripture describes it as a beautiful city where the redeemed will live for eternity. 

The activities in heaven include

singing (Rev. 15:3);

worship (Rev. 5:9);

serving (Rev. 22:3);

ruling (2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 22:5);

fellowship with others (Matt. 17:3)

And

 eating Revelation 2:17

The quality of existence in heaven is a life of fellowship with God (Rev. 22:4); 

a life of rest (Rev. 14:13); 

a life of service (Rev. 22:3); 

a life of growth (Rev. 22:2); 

and a life of worship (Rev. 19:1).

The glories of heaven belong only to those who have personally trusted Christ for their salvation.

John 14:3 

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; 

that where I am, there ye may be also."

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The features in this description do not describe Christ coming to earth with His saints 

to establish His kingdom (Rev. 19:11-15), 

but taking believers from earth to live in heaven. 

Since no judgment on the unsaved is described here, 

this is not the event of His return in glory and power to destroy the wicked 

(Matt. 13:36-43 and 47-50).

Rather, this describes His coming to gather His own who are alive 

and 

raise the bodies of those who have died to take them all to heaven. 

This rapture event is also described in (1 Cor. 15:51-54; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). 

After being raptured, the church will celebrate the marriage supper (Rev. 19:7-10), 

be rewarded (1 Cor. 3:10-15; 4:5; 2 Cor. 5:9-10), 

and later return to earth with Christ 

when He comes again to set up His kingdom (Rev. 19:11-20:6).

(1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep." "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.") 

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