"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. And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." John 14:2-3
There are people who talk of heaven as if it will be this exclusive country club for the limited few. There are people who read Revelation and can give you an exact number, never mind that it is a symbolic one. There are people who want heaven to be limited, only people like them will be there, only the ones who went to the church with the same sign over the door that they went to. There are people who only want people of their political persuasion there. There are people who only want people of their own skin color there. There are people who only want people who speak their language there. There are a multitude of people who hope that there is not a multitude of people there.
The truth, all of those people couldn't be more wrong. There is no church with a monopoly on heaven. No skin color that is better than another. No country that gets special treatment. Heaven will be purple, not red, not blue. Heaven will be a place of diversity, which is how it should be.
There are people who talk about Jesus's second coming as if the purpose of it is to draw a line in the sand between the worthy and the unworthy. There are people who see Jesus's return as a time for judgment. There are people who think of hell with a glint in their eye. There is a multitude of people who hope that Jesus wipes out a multitude of people.
The truth, once again, couldn't be more wrong. Jesus isn't coming back for a horror movie sequence. Jesus isn't coming back to kick the nonbelievers down a notch. Jesus says why he is coming back in these two verses, he's coming back to take us where he already is. Jesus is coming back to gather people to him, to reform his family. To take those who are rightfully his to the place that is rightfully theirs. Will there be judgement, yes. What form will that judgement take? I don't know, but I believe that God's judgment is for the good of us, not the destruction of us.
+ Do you believe that Jesus is preparing a place for you?
+ Do you believe that Jesus will return to gather his flock back to himself?
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