Would you rather see heaven or hell?

[~Shalhevet~]

Hell.........NO!!!! I want nothing of Satan!

We can't avoid Satan, he is already on Earth, he even seems to have some limited access to heaven.

Satan cannot come into heaven.

[MorningGlory]

Hell.........NO!!!! I want nothing of Satan!

We can't avoid Satan, he is already on Earth, he even seems to have some limited access to heaven.

Satan cannot come into heaven.

He does have some access...that's how he accuses us before the Lord.....

Job 2

Job's Second Test

¹ On another day the angels ^[a] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. ² And the LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"

Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it." ³ Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."

⁴ "Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give all he has for his own life. ⁵ But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face."

⁶ The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life."

⁷ So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. ⁸ Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.

⁹ His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"

¹⁰ He replied, "You are talking like a foolish ^[b] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

[nebula]

Hell.........NO!!!!

[~Shalhevet~]

But Satan has no power over us in heaven. Correct?

[JCMS]

I can already imagine that Heaven is an amazingly beautiful place.

I'd like to see a glimpse of hell, just to see exactly how bad it is. For me, I feel it'd motivate me even more to turn from my sin, and walk as closely with God as possible.

[gozreht]

But Satan has no power over us in heaven. Correct?

Satan only is allowed into the presence of God but why was he there? To do his duty!!! He has to still obey God. I love that passage in Job...he came to present himself too just like the other angels. He could not enter on his own! He has no power in heaven whatsoever. He also has no power over us on earth either. We allow him into our lives. Greater is HE who is in me than he who is the world!

The original question......I think 10 minutes of heaven would be too much to witness and as someone already said, I don't know if I would want to come back. 10 minutes of hell and I would be too depressed to go on. I guess hell if I had to take one because then I could tell people what it was like and when someone says "how do you know?" then I can tell them because I've been there.

Good question though.

[MorningGlory]

But Satan has no power over us in heaven. Correct?

From the way I read it, he has no power except to accuse us before the Lord. This will not always be so; satan will be cast out of Heaven and that's when it's going to get REALLY bad here, on earth

[georgedrw81]

Imagine the encouragement of seeing what He has in store for us! It would encourage me to work that much more for Him.

Well said and even right now He gives us joy every instant.

Blessings

[Openly Curious]

if you were allowed a divine vision for 10 minutes would you rather glimpse heaven or hell

In the word of God you have more than a 10 minute divine vision of heaven. Read (Revelation 21) The heavenly New Jerusalem coming down. This will give you a divine revelation and a glimpe of heaven.

All throughout Revelation you can see a divine glimpse into hell more than 10 minutes.

The four gospels has much to give us in the way of a glimpse of hell more than 10 minutes worth.

I think it is a good thing to study both heaven and hell in light of holy scripture which gives us the truth. We should study both heaven and hell and not pick one over the other.

blessings

OC

[ellarose]

I wouldn't survive hell, and I wouldn't survive heaven in this body.

If I could see just one second of Heaven I am pretty sure it would be too overwhelming, if I even survived it!

We have no idea, and can't have any kind of comprehension of the greatness of heaven, being in God's presence and living in God's light. Making a judgement about whether we would prefer to see heaven or hell is not even a possible decision... We couldn't survive seeing either with these weak hearts and brains.

Reading the Gospels, epistles and Revelation are as close as we need to get to either at the moment. God gave us this amount of information for a purpose, and it definately gives us hope and anticipation for heaven! There have been things which I have seen, which I am not sure if they were reality or my imagination, but they were only for a second... And they were just a shadow of the real places. I know that many people here on Worthy have seen and heard things which overwhelmed and amazed them... But really that is nothing compared to even a second of what heaven will be. We can truly have no idea of that truly awesome place.

And since I honestly can't express even what I'm thinking about how great that place will be, i'll stop talking because now I'm just repeating myself