| LESSON 9 | *May 23 - 29 |
Heaven |  |
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| SABBATH AFTERNOON |
Read for This Week's Study:
Eccles. 9:5, 6; Col. 1:10-14; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 21:1-4, 8. |
Memory Text:
" '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. . . . I will come back and take you to be with me' " (John 14:2, 3, NIV). |
| For many the word heaven has become meaningless, a concept that belongs to the realm of the fairy tales. We delude ourselves, they say, if we think there is some kind of life beyond this earthly existence. Some go so far as to say that it is positively wrong to tell people that there is a heaven. They argue that it keeps people from putting all their efforts into what they could achieve in life here and now. Even many Christians struggle with the concept. They are not so sure that heaven is a real place. Should heaven rather be interpreted as a state of mind? On the other hand, there are many who believe that at death the soul is released and enters heaven to live with God. They are confident that their father, mother, husband, wife, or child—who has preceded them in death—is now with God in heaven and that a few years at most separate them from a reunion with their loved ones. What's the truth on this important topic? |
The Week at a Glance:
Why is the promise of heaven so important to us? What will life be like there? How can we experience a foretaste of it now? What destiny awaits those whose choices exclude them from heaven? |
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, May 30.
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