Lately, January 4, 2023, I was listening to this sermon and I did not know that my ten-year-old son was listeing too at the other room. After I turned off the computer and was taking a nap, I overheard him talking to his mom that he wanted to be sure of going to heaven. My wife said "why?", he said, " I just heard a sermon about heaven that papa played a while ago". So my while told him to talk to Jesus, believe Him and recieve Him as his personal Lord and Savior. So, he, with tears, he prayed and revieved Jesus as his Lord and Savior. I praise God for your ministry. To God be the glory.
I'm 84 yrs. I've heard most every preacher.... this is the greatest teaching/ sermon and description of Rev. 21 etc._ (Heaven) that I have ever heard in my entire life of listening!!! God Bless This man and his unique , glorious, capability that passes my understanding and comes straight from God ALMIGHTY. HOW WONDER FUL!!! I'M PASSING IT ONTO EVERYONE I KNOW. 😇
I know I agree! Heard him talk about a similar talk about 20 years ago! It was amazing, I was driving in my car to bring my husband lunch. I remembered and typed his name in UA-cam and well this was just what my soul needed to hear. Thank you Jesus!
Thank you this is so awesome and we have glorius hope. Thank you Jesus we pray to you . You are our Saviour. Thank you for saving me, you died for me. You gave me Eternal Life. We Worship Lord Jesus. Amen
Don't bother, this preacher had no idea what he's talking about. Revelation 21 is describing conditions on EARTH, not Heaven. There are no tears and mourning in Heaven and death, these are earthly things that will be done away with in the Millennium.
To the sound of thunder and heavy rain on this nite of the 14th Sept,2022, in the old city of Malacca in Malaysia, I am following Pastor Skip's brilliant teaching . Such a blessing to be able to learn from God's anointed.
When I first became a Christian and encountered Jesus in a personal and vivid way, I began to learn about what His Word had to say. One of the main things I wrestled with, was the concept of Heaven. It sounded so glorious, but also strange - which made me anxious for some reason. I remember talking to Him in prayer and saying “Lord, it all sounds so wonderful, but it’s so unfamiliar I feel afraid!” Clear as a bell He instantly replied “You know me don’t you?” I said ‘Yes, Lord - I know you, but not Heaven, it doesn’t sound like anything I am familiar with here!” He replied “All you have to know is, that where I Am - there Heaven IS”. I felt immediately reassured and I am sure He also impressed upon me that He would show me around when I got there. That was many years ago and now I am old, I do sometimes fear any painful process of dying, but again, His promise is that when we are in that shadow of death we shall not fear for He is with us and He will comfort us and welcome us to our new and everlasting home. PS. I also love that C S Lewis quote in this video which says “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world”. Heaven is our true HOME!
No, Heaven is not our true home, the earth was created to be our home. The only humans who enter Heaven are the 144,000, dumb preachers have been lying about Heaven, giving millions a false hope that will never come true! (Psalm 37:29) The righteous will possess the EARTH, And they will live forever on it.
watching from the philippines, april 12, 2021. Thank you for your videos. I don't have any church anymore in my country. Our churches are closed. Those that are open do not preach on the Book of Revelation. And the others are of different beliefs. God bless America!
Thank you for asking God to bless America. My husband and I have church online listening to some good biblical preachers. Check out Jan Markell she has a talk show where she speaks with preachers on end times. The one she has on today is very good. God bless you ! April 30 ,2021
Have you seen John Hagee and Perry Stone? Hagee is a FANTASTIC, straightforward great man of God. Perry Stone is so down to earth, and he's a teacher, preacher and a prophet.
For the one from Philippines I recommend you visit online “Family In Christ”, Pastor Marcos, Navales. He’s in Manila. A GOD FEARING MAN OF GOD!! GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS. Mabuhay! Philippians 4:13
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on IG name (pastor_orphanage) as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
Hi Pastor Skip: I am blessed through your teaching. Your church is blessed to have a well equipped Minister of the Word. God bless you, your family and Church.
Skip, a very drear friend of mine passed away last Wednesday, ( February 1) he was the head Preacher at my Church he had been sick for a while, but I know where he now. His death hit very hard, because he and I talk 2 times a week about the Bible even though I was not able to go to Church. His name was Jerry and his wife,s name is Vicky. PLEASE PRAY for Jerry and Vicky,
This was an AWESOME message and explained so much. I have heard all of those scriptures my entire life and was often confused but when you described where we would go as being in different phases, it made complete sense. We have mixed it all up telling people that the departed have "a new body" etc when those things have not yet even happened. It was comforting to know that no matter the phase, our family who knew the Lord is WITH HIM right now!
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on IG name (pastor_orphanage) as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
I had the most peculiar dream 5 years after my father had passed away, he came to me and it was soo REAL, I had not dreamt of him in a very long time. He said he loves me. He is fine, he wonte see me again because hes off to another level. I woke up crying, it was that real. I called my mom, she burst into tears, I asked her why is SHE crying🤣, then she explained about the different levels. This makes alot of sense. What an awesome teaching. Thank you
We usually hear about the dangers of hell and to keep righteous. Now this talk was about Heaven and the new earth and New Jerusalem. We should look forward to it and do good to be in it.
You have no choice so be patient my friend. To get through the hard times imagine the last day on this earth. If you make it through the Tribulation . You will see JESUS on a great white horse breaking over the horizon with thousands and thousands of angels . It will suddenly become silent and everyone including the wicked will be confessing JESUS is King and the struggle will over . You will have fought the greatest battle ever fought. The battle for you soul .
I am grateful to say that I am a born again Christian and have been since I was 19.......yes indeed i enjoy listening to this dear man of God and I much pray God's peace and comfort on him and his family each and everyday and that God uses him and his ministry mightily to much glorify and lift high the king of kings and the lord of lords!!!!!! to God Be All The Glory!!!!! Great Things He Hath Done!!!!!! and all hail king Jesus!!!!! the king of kings and the lord of lords!!!!!! however folks these days are getting darker and Christ is coming soon and if you don’t know Christ as your savior then it burdens my soul to think that you are headed for a terrible place called Hell where the Bible says the fire is never quenched and the worm dies not! Folks you are not promised tomorrow! If you want to know how to be saved from this horrible reality then please by all means don’t hesitate to comment right back so I can lead you to the savior! 2 Corinthians 6:2 clearly states “now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation!” And Hebrews 3:15 clearly states, “Today if you hear his voice don’t harden your hearts! it is not me but the Holy Spirit that I pray reveals to you the truth of his precious gospel......John 3:16 says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes on him will not perish but have everlasting life! V 17 says then V 18 says whoever believes on the son is not condemned but whoever does not believe on the son is condemned already because he has not believed on the son whom God has sent! Also Acts 16:30-31 what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house I am not threatening anyone but just warning them what will happen if they reject this precious gift of eternal life! Christ died a horrible criminals death! He was beaten brutally mocked spit upon and endured countless hours of torture pain for all of our sins! Ppl go to hell because they reject that pardon for their sins! And Jesus is saying to them in Matthew 25:41 depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels! Hell was only prepared for Satan and his angels! It is not God who threatens anyone it is the craziness of rejecting the free pardon of salvation! It’s like if you’re in court you’ve committed a crime say you murdered someone! Now if you say to that Judge hey I know I’ve done a terrible thing of murdering that person but I hear you’re a good judge and so I know you’ll be fair to me...... the judge is going to reply well yes you’re right about one thing I am a good judge and because I’m a good judge I’m going to see to it that you’re punished and that justice is served! Well then all of a sudden someone you don’t even know comes forward and says you know what I know he’s committed the crime he’s committed and he deserves to go to jail but I really don’t want to see him go to prison so I’ll just go to prison for him so he can go free! So if you accepted that offer you’d be free to leave the courtroom but if you didn’t well you’d be crazy and go to prison yourself! Well that’s exactly how it was 2,000 years ago! He is God in human flesh and he came to this earth lived a perfect sinless life and even though he knew that we had sinned and because of our sins deserved to die miserably but he said no I don’t want to see them suffer so I will go and take their punishment for them! Even though he did absolutely nothing wrong still he chose to take the punishment for our sins so we can be set free from the power bondages and consequences of our disobedience to God! Romans 5:8 says For God commends his love toward us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us! 1 John 2:2 says he was made to be the propitiation for our sins! And not just for our sins but the sins of the whole world! 2 Corinthians 5:21 He who knew no sin became Sin for us that we would be made his righteousness! The truth is if you had to get to Heaven by your own effort then you cannot do it! Because Romans 3:10 says there is not one that does good! No Not One! Romans 3:23 says For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God! Romans 6:23 says For the wages of sin is death! But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord! But the good news is Romans 10:9 If we confess with our mouth and believes in our hearts that Christ died for our sins then was raised from the dead we will be saved! V 10 For it’s with the heart we believe and it’s with the mouth confession is made unto salvation! God gave us 10 commandments to follow and we’ve broken every one of them! And because God is a good God he cannot allow our disobedience to him to go unpunished! Well then like I just mentioned above his son Jesus stepped forward and said no I don’t want to see them punished so I will take their punishment for them! And also like I said he died a terrible substitute criminal’s death for us on a cross so now all we have to do is accept that payment for our sins and we can escape the terrible wrath of God that is to fall on them who do not accept this atonement that was sacrificed for our sins! Praise the lord Romans 10:13 says Whoever calls on the name of the lord shall be saved! And 1 Peter 1:4 you’re an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you! Christ clearly said in John 14:6 I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father but through me! Acts 4:12 clearly states that there is no other name given unto Heaven or earth by which we must be saved as there is salvation in no other! Jesus clearly states that there is clearly only one way to Salvation and it’s him that’s it! There is no other way! God Bless everyone who reads!
@GODS Messenger 1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. 2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am also.'' (John 14 :1-3)
I love this surmon, The sentence from CS LEWIS , that when we feel not satisfied by any experience on Earth that probably means that we are created for another world.
Prayers for this new Administration I have fallen on deaf ears we've never seen more corruption and more send being committed than we have at this time
Several years ago, the adult class where I attend church studied Revelation for Dummies. We talked about things being literal, or not, and I said, "Why not literal? God is God. He can do what He wants."
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: A young man my kid's age is in the hospital with a very bad infection. This infection could kill him, His name is Reemer. He is a close friend and has no family. He needs all the prayers he can get. Please lift him up to the Lord. Thank You All and God Bless
I would love to sit and talk to Pastor Heitzig. There are so many questions I would ask him. His sermons are wonderful. Blessings to all my brothers & sisters in Christ. Pray for Israel. 🙏🏻
@VonDa in... The world is a very sad place today. Then we just are sad sometimes. Chin up, buttercup, and I will remember you, VonDa, in prayer, sister. Maranatha 👑
@GODS Messenger, I suggest you reread your Bible then, because it clearly says “to be absent from the body IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD”. The dead body sleeps in the grave, but the spirit/soul returns to Jesus. So, right now in Heaven there’s many disembodied souls with Jesus, and waiting for the resurrection of their dead bodies. Jesus said Lazarus IMMEDIATELY went to Abraham’s Bosom, Old Testament Paradise, and the rich man IMMEDIATELY went to Hell. This was NOT a parable, Jesus NEVER used people who had names in a parable. Jesus Himself, His spirit, went to the belly of the earth, to Abraham’s Bosom to “lead captivity captive and gave gifts to men”, speaking of leading the Old Testament Saints to the 3rd Heaven where God’s throne is. Only Jesus’ dead body was in the grave. Our spirit is eternal, it cannot die, which is why Jesus preached more on Hell than Heaven, because people need to know that their eternal soul is going to spend eternity in either Heaven, or Hell. I know my soul is eternal because I died and I literally watched the rescue workers doing CPR on my dead body to bring me back to life, and I was just as conscious then in my spirit, as I am now in my flesh. I wasn’t dead for long, but it was long enough to know the spirit leaves the dead flesh body and continues to live. When they stoned Stephen to death and he died, his spirit left his dead flesh and saw Heaven open, and Jesus waiting to receive him. Jesus said on the cross just before He died that He commended His spirit into His Father’s hands. Jesus also says His Father did not leave His spirit in Hell, and what Jesus is referring to is the belly of the earth, where Hell and Abraham’s Bosom sat side by side, separated by a great chasm that couldn’t be crossed, so Jesus was in Abraham’s Bosom, and not on the other side of the chasm in Hell, but the vicinity of the 2 were in the same area, in Sheol. You can’t kill a spirit, and even the disciples knew spirits of the deceased continue to live, and only the flesh body is in the grave, because when they first saw Jesus after the resurrection they were frightened and thought He was a spirit, and Jesus told them to touch Him, because spirits don’t have flesh and bones like He had. Jesus was in His glorified body. The souls of the beheaded Tribulati0n Saints are in Heaven, their dead body is still on the earth. Paul said it would be better for him for his flesh to die and his soul to go be with Jesus, but it would be better for the Church of Christ for him to continue in the flesh. So, even Paul taught that our soul/spirit continues to live after the flesh dies, and the soul is with Jesus, but the flesh is in the grave. Jesus said nobody has ASCENDED to Heaven. Do you know what Jesus is referring to? His ability to ascend on His own righteousness as God incarnate on the Shekinah glory clouds to Heaven. He’s not talking about the spirit being received to Him after the flesh of a Saint dies. Jesus is the only one who can ascend to Heaven on His own righteousness, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the soul leaving the body and entering the spirit realm. You do know spirits are all around us and can see us, right? The Bible says we each have a Gaurdian Angel watching over us, and angels are spirits and are invisible to us, but they have the ability to become visible, as we see the 2 angels who appeared to Lot were changed into a visible form. The body of flesh and the soul are 2 different creations. The flesh body was formed from the dust of the earth, but God breathed our soul into us. You are twisting scriptures. You don’t know how to rightly divide. Man dies once, and (IMMEDIATELY) after is the judgement, as we see both the rich man and Lazarus were immediately judged after death. That’s why demons exist, because they can’t be killed, YOU CAN’T KILL A SPIRIT, but Jesus is going to lock them up one day for good, with Satan in the lake of fire. Just like the angels who sinned in Genesis 6 are locked in chains in Tartarus. You can’t kill a spirit, so when I die, my spirit immediately goes back to Christ, and my empty flesh goes in the ground. Absent from the body IS PRESENT WITH JESUS. That’s pretty straightforward, as well as are the other verses that say an empty body goes in the grave, not the spirit/soul. So, are you calling God’s word a lie, simply because you can’t understand scriptures and you’ve twisted the scriptures to suit you, just like Satan does?
When I think about the Kingdom not having any water at all and no dogs in heaven, this makes me very sad. Because I love my dogs and I also love the ocean. I feel a lot tranquility whenever I stare at it and lay down on the sand. 😢
It's so reassuring to have this condensed and crystal clear explanation of our life after death, and I must say that, among the dozen of videos from other pastors about the same subject, I find this one is the most complete that brings the most satisfying answers to a Truth seeker minded watcher as I am. But I still have a question that needs a precise answer and wasn't covered in this video , that is: When a believer in Christ dies, he is immediately translated to the presence of God, but what would happen to a person who never accepted Christ. Since there is no such thing called purgatory, and since the final judgement is yet to come at the end of the millenium, where this unbelieving person spend this span of time? In Hades ? or elsewhere?
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on IG name (pastor_orphanage) as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
Anything using weights and measures is never going to be other than literal. For example, the 50kg hailstones in Revelation 16 v 21 - if they aren't literal hailstones, then why mention a weight for them - it wouldn't make a smidgen, an iota, a kernel of sense to talk of 50kg hailstones if they are not literal.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on IG name (pastor_orphanage) as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
No more sea.. revelation 21:1. I think he is talking about the deep is removed from heaven. Note the context that New Jerusalem is coming down from heaven hence no body of water to go through. Also what an amazing thought that God’s glory will fill the universe.
To change the subject, but me and my sister were having a conversation about hypnosis and I would like for you to do a sermon on hypnosis so I can get a real fast from you thank you and Simmers
“In Revelation 22 and John said he saw a pure river of the water of Life..” No need for salt water.. We are the salt of the earth.. We’re with Jesus in Heaven.. Lions lay down with lambs.. They all eat hay.. and aquatic creatures will all live in fresh pure Living Waters!
Where is this church located? I use to listen to him all the time on radio. But do not recall where he is located. Glad I found him online. Need more preachers preach the Gospel and speak the truth
Consider this ... the sea is refer in the Bible as a place where the Beast (bad being) came out, maybe the connotation that refers as no more sea is that wouldn't be anymore a place where bad beings would come out from. SEE REVELATIONS 13:4 AND 20:8 AND OTHER PLACES OF REVELATION THAT SPEAK ABOUT THE SEA.
Just one point though, it says that the city will be square mentioned separately from the new earth. I don't think it necessarily means that the new earth will be square.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on IG name (pastor_orphanage) as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you..,,,...,,....
41:20 the word of god tells us it is not it is not for our interpretation and that it interprets itself. when it does not, we find david, for example, asking for understanding from god. the word of god is of infinite mind. we have finite minds. we need the infinite mind to explain what is beyond our finite minds. we need to approach the word of god in humble prayer seeking to find truth to live by that god may be given honor and glory.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on IG name (pastor_orphanage) as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
Revelation 9:6 [6]And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. how many times have you died!
Appreciate your message! It's very comforting. There is just one small thing, where you talk about interpreting the Bible literally. You're totally right! But why do you interpret the Bible literally except when it comes to scientific records? Genesis 1? The Firmament between the waters? Josuah 10:13 "the sun stood still in the middle of the heaven... and the moon" ... and 200 or more other verses? why is that not literal but everything else is? You think God doesn't know how to explain processes in His creation? Or can it be that our perception of reality has been polluted by satan?
"Thousand" is also a figure of speech. "My father owns the cattle on a thousand hills." - (How about 2 thousand hills?) - "A thousand years is as one day to God." -(So two thousand years are as two days? That would be strange considering time does not exist in Heaven). It's just saying God owns all the cattle (everything) and that God doesn't live within time.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done (pastor_orphanage) as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
Pastor Skip, please touch again on what happens when you die. The KJV Bible does say that Paul said while we are here we are present in body but absent from the Lord. Then in verse 8, he said he would RATHER be absent from the body and present with the Lord. The Bible also says that King David is still in his grave. "The dead in Christ will rise first." Well if the dead are already with Christ, then who is rising?
Sadly, many preachers misrepresent 2 Corinthians chapter 5, Chris. There is nothing in this passage about going to heaven. Let's take a closer look. In verse two we read: _"...we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven...."_ Note that he says "from" heaven. Then in verse five we read: _"....we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed"._ That is to say, "we do not wish to be disembodied; we want to swap our mortal body for our glorified body." And believers will do just that, at Christ's second coming.
To your last point; this is referring to the resurrection when we receive our perfect, resurrection bodies, those incorruptible ones that we have to inhabit eternity. Our souls are joined to that body at that time, having been with the Lord in spirit form.
@@preoccupied4800 *"...having been with the Lord in spirit form."* Good grief. That is not true. How do I know? The Bible says so. (Psalm 6: 5, Psalm 115: 17, Psalm 146: 4, Ecclesiastes 3: 19-20, Ecclesiastes 9: 5, Ecclesiastes 9: 10; John 5: 28-29)
@@IsaacNussbaum You are misrepresenting these verses (for example, Psalm 6 is David lamenting before God it's not describing the afterlife) One shouldn't take a couple of verses and make a whole theology out of them, they have to be understood in the broadest context. Christ himself says to the thief on the cross "Today you will be with me in Paradise" meaning, that very day; Jesus parable about the rich man and Lazarus clearly shows consciousness after death for those who are saved though the body is buried, Paul writes about this in 1 Thessalonians 4 13-18 These things only apply to those who die in Christ, it is important to keep that in mind. Nothing is said here of the resurrection of those who are not in Christ. That is referrred to in that passage you cite John 5:28, 29. but also in Acts 24:15. That is for unbelievers not Christians. WE go to be immediately with the Lord
@@preoccupied4800 Good grief, man. Don't you even read a passage when you refer to it? 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18 says that the very first time that Christians will be with Jesus is at His second coming. 13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who *SLEEP--SLEEP--SLEEP* in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be *CAUGHT UP--UP--UP* [ NOT come down ] together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. *AND SO [ **_IN THIS WAY; THUS_** ] WE WILL BE WITH THE LORD FOREVER.*
God himself is going to destroy this Earth. Correction: God is not a destroyer God is kind, is love, isccreative and wise. The new heaven and new earth is already in the coming: God brings in the new without destroying the old. The old fades away and the new arrives. The new era, the new order is already in the making in the new world. There shall be no wars There shall be food for everyone.
We need info about this destination. Thank you for this sermon. FYI were there there actually 12 tribes Skip? Actually 13 because Josephs two sons are included along with his 11 brothers! The mentions of the tribe''s names in Scripture leaves one tribe out to give twelve. It is likely that the missing tribe in these mentions are the naughtiest at the time. I don''t believe the total number of disciples is so easy to nail down either. While the Bible mentions 12 disciples if you add the members up in different passages you'll get more than 12! Í think I counted 15 or so. If these are the guides to interpretation we may have to allow for Scripture's description of heaven to be non literal in places. After all it is describing things outside our experience.
I respectfully hope that Skip is wrong about there being no ocean on the New Earth. I prefer to spend eternity on an earth with an ocean, as well as a sun, moon, and night, over one without those things. I also hope that we will get to do the (non-sinful) stuff we love here on Earth on the New Earth as well.
City is the bride of Christ, we are his body, can't be his body, and his bride at the same time, the Holy City is his bride. Notice that a city, an actual city is called HOLY, I thought that was reserved for beings only? The Holy City is adorned as a bride for her husband.
Question Skip...NT Wright is one of my mentors. Amazing man and theologian. He indicates “no Rapture.” Farewell to the Rapture is the paper on it. Your thoughts if possible. Thank you
Even had Jesus been a real person, rather than a character in a book, meant to start a new religion ... he would have said, "I was born perfect as a baby Jew, to parents that followed the perfected doctrines of Judaism, so don't lie that I left my position of being a Jewish Rabbi, to preach a doctrine of Christianity."
Lately, January 4, 2023, I was listening to this sermon and I did not know that my ten-year-old son was listeing too at the other room. After I turned off the computer and was taking a nap, I overheard him talking to his mom that he wanted to be sure of going to heaven. My wife said "why?", he said, " I just heard a sermon about heaven that papa played a while ago". So my while told him to talk to Jesus, believe Him and recieve Him as his personal Lord and Savior. So, he, with tears, he prayed and revieved Jesus as his Lord and Savior. I praise God for your ministry. To God be the glory.
Praise The Lord !!!❤️🙏😊
Glory be to God!
A beautiful story. God bless the children.
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❤ Praise The Lord!
I'm 66 I feel our time is coming , the Lord Jesus Christ is coming to take us home
@GODS Messenger people trying not gonna
Amen! Yes, He is!
I'm 84 yrs. I've heard most every preacher.... this is the greatest teaching/ sermon and description of Rev. 21 etc._ (Heaven) that I have ever heard in my entire life of listening!!! God Bless This man and his unique , glorious, capability that passes my understanding and comes straight from God ALMIGHTY. HOW WONDER FUL!!! I'M PASSING IT ONTO EVERYONE I KNOW. 😇
I know I agree! Heard him talk about a similar talk about 20 years ago! It was amazing, I was driving in my car to bring my husband lunch. I remembered and typed his name in UA-cam and well this was just what my soul needed to hear. Thank you Jesus!
Thank you this is so awesome and we have glorius hope. Thank you Jesus we pray to you . You are our Saviour. Thank you for saving me, you died for me. You gave me Eternal Life. We Worship Lord Jesus. Amen
How fine your grammar is! You are intelligent, and I would enjoy hearing some of your life experiences. God bless your sweet soul!
So the word of God when he said “Fear Not” is now more clear…❤❤❤
Don't bother, this preacher had no idea what he's talking about. Revelation 21 is describing conditions on EARTH, not Heaven. There are no tears and mourning in Heaven and death, these are earthly things that will be done away with in the Millennium.
To the sound of thunder and heavy rain on this nite of the 14th Sept,2022, in the old city of Malacca in Malaysia, I am following Pastor Skip's brilliant teaching . Such a blessing to be able to learn from God's anointed.
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I love Skip. He preaches even the parts of the Bible churches run from. I have been listening for years now.
me too
This is my first time listening to this preacher so he didn’t preach the truck will be the next president I hope
Exactly!!!
The Pastor is correct . And let’s be right in studying the Word Of God . God bless you all !
This is absolutely brilliant. A Spirit filled teaching.
Let your Kingdom come Lord. Thank you Pastor for uplifting our minds and spirit. Bless you. From NZ
How refreshing to listen to a man of God who demonstrates the greatest gift of the Spirit, LOVE for ALL, thank you.
Simple, clear balanced teaching. It's very helpful. Thank you brother
When I first became a Christian and encountered Jesus in a personal and vivid way, I began to learn about what His Word had to say. One of the main things I wrestled with, was the concept of Heaven. It sounded so glorious, but also strange - which made me anxious for some reason. I remember talking to Him in prayer and saying “Lord, it all sounds so wonderful, but it’s so unfamiliar I feel afraid!” Clear as a bell He instantly replied “You know me don’t you?” I said ‘Yes, Lord - I know you, but not Heaven, it doesn’t sound like anything I am familiar with here!” He replied “All you have to know is, that where I Am - there Heaven IS”. I felt immediately reassured and I am sure He also impressed upon me that He would show me around when I got there. That was many years ago and now I am old, I do sometimes fear any painful process of dying, but again, His promise is that when we are in that shadow of death we shall not fear for He is with us and He will comfort us and welcome us to our new and everlasting home. PS. I also love that C S Lewis quote in this video which says “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world”. Heaven is our true HOME!
No, Heaven is not our true home, the earth was created to be our home. The only humans who enter Heaven are the 144,000, dumb preachers have been lying about Heaven, giving millions a false hope that will never come true!
(Psalm 37:29) The righteous will possess the EARTH, And they will live forever on it.
I was so encourage
thank you Pastor Skip as you always are the best teacher!
Wonderful teaching, what a God we have🙏🙏
watching from the philippines, april 12, 2021. Thank you for your videos. I don't have any church anymore in my country. Our churches are closed. Those that are open do not preach on the Book of Revelation. And the others are of different beliefs. God bless America!
Thank you for asking God to bless America. My husband and I have church online listening to some good biblical preachers. Check out Jan Markell she has a talk show where she speaks with preachers on end times. The one she has on today is very good. God bless you ! April 30 ,2021
Have you seen John Hagee and Perry Stone? Hagee is a FANTASTIC, straightforward great man of God. Perry Stone is so down to earth, and he's a teacher, preacher and a prophet.
Church is a people not a place... church is in ur heart god gave u
For the one from Philippines I recommend you visit online “Family In Christ”, Pastor Marcos, Navales. He’s in Manila. A GOD FEARING MAN OF GOD!! GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS. Mabuhay!
Philippians 4:13
Hi A S! You may search Heavenly Bible Baptist Church!
What a very encouraging and uplifting message to listen to as a fellow believer.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on
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as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
This was a really good preach. I never get to hear heaven and hell preached. This one was very, very good.
Nobody seems to want to mention hell anymore. I grew up with fire and brimstone preachers .
I enjoyed this sermon
@@RepentfollowJesus heaven and he'll should be preach every day,especially the times the world is in now.
@@gamechangertmc3994 AND oh great expositor where is your proof of this random and careless proclamation?
Hi Pastor Skip: I am blessed through your teaching. Your church is blessed to have a well equipped Minister of the Word. God bless you, your family and Church.
Skip, a very drear friend of mine passed away last Wednesday, ( February 1) he was the head Preacher at my Church he had been sick for a while, but I know where he now. His death hit very hard, because he and I talk 2 times a week about the Bible even though I was not able to go to Church. His name was Jerry and his wife,s name is Vicky. PLEASE PRAY for Jerry and Vicky,
Randy Alcorn’s book “Heaven” is a great book! A must read for believers.
God bless you Pastor watching from Australia, love your teachings
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I love his teachings as well. Greetings from Melbourne.❤
This was an AWESOME message and explained so much. I have heard all of those scriptures my entire life and was often confused but when you described where we would go as being in different phases, it made complete sense. We have mixed it all up telling people that the departed have "a new body" etc when those things have not yet even happened. It was comforting to know that no matter the phase, our family who knew the Lord is WITH HIM right now!
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on IG name (pastor_orphanage)
as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
PRAYERS 4 ALL OF GODS CHILDREN🙏
Prayers and blessings for you. Amen.
I had the most peculiar dream 5 years after my father had passed away, he came to me and it was soo REAL, I had not dreamt of him in a very long time. He said he loves me. He is fine, he wonte see me again because hes off to another level. I woke up crying, it was that real. I called my mom, she burst into tears, I asked her why is SHE crying🤣, then she explained about the different levels. This makes alot of sense.
What an awesome teaching.
Thank you
Just loved this message, uplifting,clear and beautiful. Made me cry
So BLESSED to have found this channel and Skip🙏♥️👑
Very happy with all of what you shared with us today .Thank you .
Excellent ...and Profound..... teaching..on Heaven..
Thank you Pastor Skip... you are simply too good...
Very uplifting. What an assured and seamless delivery, made understandable by someone annointed by God. Thanks for clarification on heaven.
God bless you Pastor Skip..aware much of the Reality of Heaven for it is the Truth.Thank You for sharing🙏
We usually hear about the dangers of hell and to keep righteous. Now this talk was about Heaven and the new earth and New Jerusalem. We should look forward to it and do good to be in it.
We are definitely in the “season” for Jesus’s return for His Bride. Thank you sister for putting more icing on the wedding cake!
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Watching from Belfast Northern Ireland. Such wonderful balanced teaching. Thank you !
me too - just 2 years later!
i can't wait to get there.
Me either!!!!!!
You have no choice so be patient my friend. To get through the hard times imagine the last day on this earth. If you make it through the Tribulation . You will see JESUS on a great white horse breaking over the horizon with thousands and thousands of angels . It will suddenly become silent and everyone including the wicked will be confessing JESUS is King and the struggle will over . You will have fought the greatest battle ever fought. The battle for you soul .
I am grateful to say that I am a born again Christian and have been since I was 19.......yes indeed i enjoy listening to this dear man of God and I much pray God's peace and comfort on him and his family each and everyday and that God uses him and his ministry mightily to much glorify and lift high the king of kings and the lord of lords!!!!!! to God Be All The Glory!!!!! Great Things He Hath Done!!!!!! and all hail king Jesus!!!!! the king of kings and the lord of lords!!!!!! however folks these days are getting darker and Christ is coming soon and if you don’t know Christ as your savior then it burdens my soul to think that you are headed for a terrible place called Hell where the Bible says the fire is never quenched and the worm dies not! Folks you are not promised tomorrow! If you want to know how to be saved from this horrible reality then please by all means don’t hesitate to comment right back so I can lead you to the savior! 2 Corinthians 6:2 clearly states “now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation!” And Hebrews 3:15 clearly states, “Today if you hear his voice don’t harden your hearts! it is not me but the Holy Spirit that I pray reveals to you the truth of his precious gospel......John 3:16 says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes on him will not perish but have everlasting life! V 17 says then V 18 says whoever believes on the son is not condemned but whoever does not believe on the son is condemned already because he has not believed on the son whom God has sent! Also Acts 16:30-31 what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house I am not threatening anyone but just warning them what will happen if they reject this precious gift of eternal life! Christ died a horrible criminals death! He was beaten brutally mocked spit upon and endured countless hours of torture pain for all of our sins! Ppl go to hell because they reject that pardon for their sins! And Jesus is saying to them in Matthew 25:41 depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels! Hell was only prepared for Satan and his angels! It is not God who threatens anyone it is the craziness of rejecting the free pardon of salvation! It’s like if you’re in court you’ve committed a crime say you murdered someone! Now if you say to that Judge hey I know I’ve done a terrible thing of murdering that person but I hear you’re a good judge and so I know you’ll be fair to me...... the judge is going to reply well yes you’re right about one thing I am a good judge and because I’m a good judge I’m going to see to it that you’re punished and that justice is served! Well then all of a sudden someone you don’t even know comes forward and says you know what I know he’s committed the crime he’s committed and he deserves to go to jail but I really don’t want to see him go to prison so I’ll just go to prison for him so he can go free! So if you accepted that offer you’d be free to leave the courtroom but if you didn’t well you’d be crazy and go to prison yourself! Well that’s exactly how it was 2,000 years ago! He is God in human flesh and he came to this earth lived a perfect sinless life and even though he knew that we had sinned and because of our sins deserved to die miserably but he said no I don’t want to see them suffer so I will go and take their punishment for them! Even though he did absolutely nothing wrong still he chose to take the punishment for our sins so we can be set free from the power bondages and consequences of our disobedience to God! Romans 5:8 says For God commends his love toward us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us! 1 John 2:2 says he was made to be the propitiation for our sins! And not just for our sins but the sins of the whole world! 2 Corinthians 5:21 He who knew no sin became Sin for us that we would be made his righteousness! The truth is if you had to get to Heaven by your own effort then you cannot do it! Because Romans 3:10 says there is not one that does good! No Not One! Romans 3:23 says For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God! Romans 6:23 says For the wages of sin is death! But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord! But the good news is Romans 10:9 If we confess with our mouth and believes in our hearts that Christ died for our sins then was raised from the dead we will be saved! V 10 For it’s with the heart we believe and it’s with the mouth confession is made unto salvation! God gave us 10 commandments to follow and we’ve broken every one of them! And because God is a good God he cannot allow our disobedience to him to go unpunished! Well then like I just mentioned above his son Jesus stepped forward and said no I don’t want to see them punished so I will take their punishment for them! And also like I said he died a terrible substitute criminal’s death for us on a cross so now all we have to do is accept that payment for our sins and we can escape the terrible wrath of God that is to fall on them who do not accept this atonement that was sacrificed for our sins! Praise the lord Romans 10:13 says Whoever calls on the name of the lord shall be saved! And 1 Peter 1:4 you’re an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you! Christ clearly said in John 14:6 I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father but through me! Acts 4:12 clearly states that there is no other name given unto Heaven or earth by which we must be saved as there is salvation in no other! Jesus clearly states that there is clearly only one way to Salvation and it’s him that’s it! There is no other way! God Bless everyone who reads!
AMEN 🙏🏻
Praise The Lord, God bless you pastor.
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I appreciate your political stand. And I believe by heart that you are guided by Holy Spirit...
Blessed! Thank you Skip!
@GODS Messenger 1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. 2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am also.'' (John 14 :1-3)
Lord Jesus Christ and also we pray that they repent for your GLORY! God bless all your chosen one!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌍
Thank you, I needed to hear that message of hope.
Thank you for the positive message about Heaven, you are a very compassionate person and preacher.
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I love this surmon, The sentence from CS LEWIS , that when we feel not satisfied by any experience on Earth that probably means that we are created for another world.
Prayers for this new Administration I have fallen on deaf ears we've never seen more corruption and more send being committed than we have at this time
Several years ago, the adult class where I attend church studied Revelation for Dummies. We talked about things being literal, or not, and I said, "Why not literal? God is God. He can do what He wants."
Thank you for this clarfication on Heaven.
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A young man my kid's age is in the hospital with a very bad infection. This infection could kill him, His name is Reemer. He is a close friend and has no family. He needs all the prayers he can get. Please lift him up to the Lord. Thank You All and God Bless
Where there is simplicity, love, meekness, there is Heaven***
I would love to sit and talk to Pastor Heitzig. There are so many questions I would ask him. His sermons are wonderful. Blessings to all my brothers & sisters in Christ. Pray for Israel. 🙏🏻
I'm an optometrist and I approve of this intro!!
Please Pray for me that God will bless me to do his Holy Work. Thank God
He works through us
Me too
I need prayer. I'm really sad, God knows why ♥
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@VonDa in... The world is a very sad place today. Then we just are sad sometimes. Chin up, buttercup, and I will remember you, VonDa, in prayer, sister. Maranatha 👑
@@RRodriguez1904 Chin's coming up. Maranatha ♥
Maranatha!
You are a good teacher
Just made perfect sense, so well said.
@GODS Messenger, I suggest you reread your Bible then, because it clearly says “to be absent from the body IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD”. The dead body sleeps in the grave, but the spirit/soul returns to Jesus. So, right now in Heaven there’s many disembodied souls with Jesus, and waiting for the resurrection of their dead bodies. Jesus said Lazarus IMMEDIATELY went to Abraham’s Bosom, Old Testament Paradise, and the rich man IMMEDIATELY went to Hell. This was NOT a parable, Jesus NEVER used people who had names in a parable. Jesus Himself, His spirit, went to the belly of the earth, to Abraham’s Bosom to “lead captivity captive and gave gifts to men”, speaking of leading the Old Testament Saints to the 3rd Heaven where God’s throne is. Only Jesus’ dead body was in the grave. Our spirit is eternal, it cannot die, which is why Jesus preached more on Hell than Heaven, because people need to know that their eternal soul is going to spend eternity in either Heaven, or Hell. I know my soul is eternal because I died and I literally watched the rescue workers doing CPR on my dead body to bring me back to life, and I was just as conscious then in my spirit, as I am now in my flesh. I wasn’t dead for long, but it was long enough to know the spirit leaves the dead flesh body and continues to live. When they stoned Stephen to death and he died, his spirit left his dead flesh and saw Heaven open, and Jesus waiting to receive him. Jesus said on the cross just before He died that He commended His spirit into His Father’s hands. Jesus also says His Father did not leave His spirit in Hell, and what Jesus is referring to is the belly of the earth, where Hell and Abraham’s Bosom sat side by side, separated by a great chasm that couldn’t be crossed, so Jesus was in Abraham’s Bosom, and not on the other side of the chasm in Hell, but the vicinity of the 2 were in the same area, in Sheol. You can’t kill a spirit, and even the disciples knew spirits of the deceased continue to live, and only the flesh body is in the grave, because when they first saw Jesus after the resurrection they were frightened and thought He was a spirit, and Jesus told them to touch Him, because spirits don’t have flesh and bones like He had. Jesus was in His glorified body. The souls of the beheaded Tribulati0n Saints are in Heaven, their dead body is still on the earth. Paul said it would be better for him for his flesh to die and his soul to go be with Jesus, but it would be better for the Church of Christ for him to continue in the flesh. So, even Paul taught that our soul/spirit continues to live after the flesh dies, and the soul is with Jesus, but the flesh is in the grave. Jesus said nobody has ASCENDED to Heaven. Do you know what Jesus is referring to? His ability to ascend on His own righteousness as God incarnate on the Shekinah glory clouds to Heaven. He’s not talking about the spirit being received to Him after the flesh of a Saint dies. Jesus is the only one who can ascend to Heaven on His own righteousness, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the soul leaving the body and entering the spirit realm. You do know spirits are all around us and can see us, right? The Bible says we each have a Gaurdian Angel watching over us, and angels are spirits and are invisible to us, but they have the ability to become visible, as we see the 2 angels who appeared to Lot were changed into a visible form. The body of flesh and the soul are 2 different creations. The flesh body was formed from the dust of the earth, but God breathed our soul into us. You are twisting scriptures. You don’t know how to rightly divide. Man dies once, and (IMMEDIATELY) after is the judgement, as we see both the rich man and Lazarus were immediately judged after death. That’s why demons exist, because they can’t be killed, YOU CAN’T KILL A SPIRIT, but Jesus is going to lock them up one day for good, with Satan in the lake of fire. Just like the angels who sinned in Genesis 6 are locked in chains in Tartarus. You can’t kill a spirit, so when I die, my spirit immediately goes back to Christ, and my empty flesh goes in the ground. Absent from the body IS PRESENT WITH JESUS. That’s pretty straightforward, as well as are the other verses that say an empty body goes in the grave, not the spirit/soul. So, are you calling God’s word a lie, simply because you can’t understand scriptures and you’ve twisted the scriptures to suit you, just like Satan does?
😇 Thy will be done on earth (first) as it is in Heaven.
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in Heaven.
While I do have some clarity, for which I am thankful, I am still thoroughly confused and somewhat scared.
Watching (religiously... tee hee) from Kentucky.
Good message. I enjoyed very much.
Love this teaching!
Thank you!
Sadly... many of us will not make it. May God have mercy
When I think about the Kingdom not having any water at all and no dogs in heaven, this makes me very sad. Because I love my dogs and I also love the ocean. I feel a lot tranquility whenever I stare at it and lay down on the sand. 😢
Fantastic. Thank you.
Thank you, ❤❤❤❤❤love you
Sore you’re treasures in heaven ❤❤
Great message! Seminary Student looking at your Sermon Archive on Logos. WIsh I could see how you prep.
April 2023, 👍 from Perth Australia 🇦🇺
Amen thank you pastor
It's so reassuring to have this condensed and crystal clear explanation of our life after death, and I must say that, among the dozen of videos from other pastors about the same subject, I find this one is the most complete that brings the most satisfying answers to a Truth seeker minded watcher as I am. But I still have a question that needs a precise answer and wasn't covered in this video , that is: When a believer in Christ dies, he is immediately translated to the presence of God, but what would happen to a person who never accepted Christ. Since there is no such thing called purgatory, and since the final judgement is yet to come at the end of the millenium, where this unbelieving person spend this span of time? In Hades ? or elsewhere?
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on
IG name (pastor_orphanage)
as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
Anything using weights and measures is never going to be other than literal. For example, the 50kg hailstones in Revelation 16 v 21 - if they aren't literal hailstones, then why mention a weight for them - it wouldn't make a smidgen, an iota, a kernel of sense to talk of 50kg hailstones if they are not literal.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on
IG name (pastor_orphanage)
as you do May God bless you and deliver you from the hands of enemies send your donations to them God bless you........,,,..,,..,,
THANK YOU!!!!!!😊
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Yes,the mention of the sea not being there,made me overthink.Really looking for answeres.
talking about heaven the Lord came and took my momma home i kinda wish he would have took me along with her
No more sea.. revelation 21:1. I think he is talking about the deep is removed from heaven. Note the context that New Jerusalem is coming down from heaven hence no body of water to go through. Also what an amazing thought that God’s glory will fill the universe.
Please pray for my country South Africa
To change the subject, but me and my sister were having a conversation about hypnosis and I would like for you to do a sermon on hypnosis so I can get a real fast from you thank you and Simmers
“In Revelation 22 and John said he saw a pure river of the water of Life..”
No need for salt water..
We are the salt of the earth..
We’re with Jesus in Heaven..
Lions lay down with lambs..
They all eat hay.. and aquatic creatures will all live in fresh pure Living Waters!
Where is this church located? I use to listen to him all the time on radio. But do not recall where he is located. Glad I found him online. Need more preachers preach the Gospel and speak the truth
Consider this ... the sea is refer in the Bible as a place where the Beast (bad being) came out, maybe the connotation that refers as no more sea is that wouldn't be anymore a place where bad beings would come out from. SEE REVELATIONS 13:4 AND 20:8 AND OTHER PLACES OF REVELATION THAT SPEAK ABOUT THE SEA.
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Just one point though, it says that the city will be square mentioned separately from the new earth. I don't think it necessarily means that the new earth will be square.
Jesus is Lord
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on
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41:20 the word of god tells us it is not it is not for our interpretation and that it interprets itself. when it does not, we find david, for example, asking for understanding from god. the word of god is of infinite mind. we have finite minds. we need the infinite mind to explain what is beyond our finite minds. we need to approach the word of god in humble prayer seeking to find truth to live by that god may be given honor and glory.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done reach us on
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Revelation 9:6
[6]And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. how many times have you died!
Hallelujah AMEN N AMEN!🙏🌳🐑❤👑👑👑😊😊😊❤
describing something youve never seen is impossible...😇
Appreciate your message! It's very comforting. There is just one small thing, where you talk about interpreting the Bible literally. You're totally right! But why do you interpret the Bible literally except when it comes to scientific records? Genesis 1? The Firmament between the waters? Josuah 10:13 "the sun stood still in the middle of the heaven... and the moon" ... and 200 or more other verses? why is that not literal but everything else is? You think God doesn't know how to explain processes in His creation? Or can it be that our perception of reality has been polluted by satan?
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"Thousand" is also a figure of speech. "My father owns the cattle on a thousand hills." - (How about 2 thousand hills?) - "A thousand years is as one day to God." -(So two thousand years are as two days? That would be strange considering time does not exist in Heaven). It's just saying God owns all the cattle (everything) and that God doesn't live within time.
may you be blessed beyond your expectations,may God blessings be upon you and your household,may the gates of heaven open and pour its blessings on you,beloved I don't know you but God knows you very well as I was meditating while reading your comment God show me a vision about you,in that vision I saw spiritual attack,I saw accident and I also saw suffering,the enemies are trying to frustrate you so you can lose faith in God but child of God I tell you there a solution because the Bible says the devil came to steal and destroy in also that bible God say it can not stand neither can it come to pass,child of God"God said I should tell you to sow a seed of liberation and freedom into the lives of children suffering from leukemia in mercy foundation located in Metz France because God said in (proverb (19:17)Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done (pastor_orphanage)
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Pastor Skip, please touch again on what happens when you die. The KJV Bible does say that Paul said while we are here we are present in body but absent from the Lord. Then in verse 8, he said he would RATHER be absent from the body and present with the Lord. The Bible also says that King David is still in his grave.
"The dead in Christ will rise first." Well if the dead are already with Christ, then who is rising?
Sadly, many preachers misrepresent 2 Corinthians chapter 5, Chris. There is nothing in this passage about going to heaven. Let's take a closer look. In verse two we read: _"...we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven...."_ Note that he says "from" heaven. Then in verse five we read: _"....we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed"._ That is to say, "we do not wish to be disembodied; we want to swap our mortal body for our glorified body." And believers will do just that, at Christ's second coming.
To your last point; this is referring to the resurrection when we receive our perfect, resurrection bodies, those incorruptible ones that we have to inhabit eternity. Our souls are joined to that body at that time, having been with the Lord in spirit form.
@@preoccupied4800 *"...having been with the Lord in spirit form."* Good grief. That is not true. How do I know? The Bible says so. (Psalm 6: 5, Psalm 115: 17, Psalm 146: 4, Ecclesiastes 3: 19-20, Ecclesiastes 9: 5, Ecclesiastes 9: 10; John 5: 28-29)
@@IsaacNussbaum You are misrepresenting these verses (for example, Psalm 6 is David lamenting before God it's not describing the afterlife)
One shouldn't take a couple of verses and make a whole theology out of them, they have to be understood in the broadest context. Christ himself says to the thief on the cross "Today you will be with me in Paradise" meaning, that very day; Jesus parable about the rich man and Lazarus clearly shows consciousness after death for those who are saved though the body is buried, Paul writes about this in 1 Thessalonians 4 13-18
These things only apply to those who die in Christ, it is important to keep that in mind. Nothing is said here of the resurrection of those who are not in Christ. That is referrred to in that passage you cite John 5:28, 29. but also in Acts 24:15. That is for unbelievers not Christians. WE go to be immediately with the Lord
@@preoccupied4800 Good grief, man. Don't you even read a passage when you refer to it? 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18 says that the very first time that Christians will be with Jesus is at His second coming.
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who *SLEEP--SLEEP--SLEEP* in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be *CAUGHT UP--UP--UP* [ NOT come down ] together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. *AND SO [ **_IN THIS WAY; THUS_** ] WE WILL BE WITH THE LORD FOREVER.*
God himself is going to destroy this Earth.
Correction:
God is not a destroyer
God is kind, is love, isccreative and wise.
The new heaven and new earth is already in the coming: God brings in the new without destroying the old. The old fades away and the new arrives.
The new era, the new order is already in the making in the new world.
There shall be no wars
There shall be food for everyone.
We need info about this destination. Thank you for this sermon. FYI were there there actually 12 tribes Skip? Actually 13 because Josephs two sons are included along with his 11 brothers! The mentions of the tribe''s names in Scripture leaves one tribe out to give twelve. It is likely that the missing tribe in these mentions are the naughtiest at the time. I don''t believe the total number of disciples is so easy to nail down either. While the Bible mentions 12 disciples if you add the members up in different passages you'll get more than 12! Í think I counted 15 or so. If these are the guides to interpretation we may have to allow for Scripture's description of heaven to be non literal in places. After all it is describing things outside our experience.
I respectfully hope that Skip is wrong about there being no ocean on the New Earth. I prefer to spend eternity on an earth with an ocean, as well as a sun, moon, and night, over one without those things. I also hope that we will get to do the (non-sinful) stuff we love here on Earth on the New Earth as well.
Are we Conscious that we are in heaven? Right away?
It kind of sounds like we will have no emotions in heaven, no crying ,no sadness ,no pain , will we be like robots? Having no emotions?
There's joy and laughter and happiness...
Correct, it would be impossible to have a personality, free will Etc.
Joy laughter no pain no death no disabilities addictions violence can't wait to go there meet our Lord God and Savior others .
Lots of emotions in Hell pain anguish regret no hope joy love or rescue.
City is the bride of Christ, we are his body, can't be his body, and his bride at the same time, the Holy City is his bride.
Notice that a city, an actual city is called HOLY, I thought that was reserved for beings only?
The Holy City is adorned as a bride for her husband.
Difference between christ and jesus can be found in scripture through God's word only...acts4:12
Question Skip...NT Wright is one of my mentors. Amazing man and theologian. He indicates “no Rapture.” Farewell to the Rapture is the paper on it. Your thoughts if possible. Thank you
Even had Jesus been a real person, rather than a character in a book, meant to start a new religion ... he would have said, "I was born perfect as a baby Jew, to parents that followed the perfected doctrines of Judaism, so don't lie that I left my position of being a Jewish Rabbi, to preach a doctrine of Christianity."
The confusion with what happens after death is between bc & ad
The earth is curved, but the New Jerusalem is 1,500 miles flat sided. So, does it hover over the earth?