Will there be mansions in heaven?

[angels4u]

If that is not the case, and we do not know until we get there, I don't need a mansion

If you promise your child something big and she would tell you that she not really wants it,would this sound ungrateful to you ?

 

Once I was clothed in the rags of my sin

Wretched and poor lost and lonely within

But with wonderous compassion the King of all Kings

In pity and love took me under his wing.

Oh yes, oh yes, I'm a child of the King

His royal blood now flows in my veins

And I who was wretched and poor now can sing

Praise God Praise God I'm a child of the King.

Now I'm a child with a heavenly home

My holy father has made me his own

And I am cleansed by his blood and I'm clothed in his love

And someday I'll sing with the angels above.

Oh yes, oh yes, I'm a child of the King

His royal blood now flows in my veins

And I who was wretched and poor now can sing

Praise God Praise God I'm a child of the King...

 

Thank you Jesus for all the things You have in store for us and most of all to see you face to face.

 

Revelation 21:21

 

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

 

We will walk those streets of gold~~

[Marilyn C]

`let us lay aside every weight & the sin which so easily ensnares us & let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, LOOKING UNTO JESUS, the author & finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, & sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.` (Heb. 12: 1 & 2)

 

So what is the joy that was set before Jesus - `...bringing many sons to glory,...` (Heb. 2: 10)

 

The so - called mansions are our eternal bodies - `...to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,..` (2 Cor. 5: 2)

 

Marilyn.

[Marilyn C]

I will just be Blessed to see Jesus face to face.That is what I am awaiting.

Hi bopeep1909,

 

You`ve said it there. So very, very true. And it`s good to remember -

 

`...that the genuineness of your faith, being MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD THAT PERISHES,.....` (1 Peter 1: 7)

 

We live in such a materialistic society that often we don`t understand true riches, which are in Christ -

 

`...in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom & knowledge.`  (Col. 2: 3)

 

`...& let no one defraud you of your reward,.......and not holding fast to the Head,..` (Christ) (Col. 2: 18)

 

 

We are so blessed to know our precious Lord & what He has done for us. He is our reward, our life, our treasure, there is nothing, there is no one compared to Him.

 

Marilyn.

[Openly Curious]

If that is not the case, and we do not know until we get there, I don't need a mansion

If you promise your child something big and she would tell you that she not really wants it,would this sound ungrateful to you ?

 

Once I was clothed in the rags of my sin

Wretched and poor lost and lonely within

But with wonderous compassion the King of all Kings

In pity and love took me under his wing.

Oh yes, oh yes, I'm a child of the King

His royal blood now flows in my veins

And I who was wretched and poor now can sing

Praise God Praise God I'm a child of the King.

Now I'm a child with a heavenly home

My holy father has made me his own

And I am cleansed by his blood and I'm clothed in his love

And someday I'll sing with the angels above.

Oh yes, oh yes, I'm a child of the King

His royal blood now flows in my veins

And I who was wretched and poor now can sing

Praise God Praise God I'm a child of the King...

 

Thank you Jesus for all the things You have in store for us and most of all to see you face to face.

 

Revelation 21:21

 

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

 

We will walk those streets of gold~~

Oh...angels4u you done went and made me cry with all the words in your post here. It a good cry though.

[Guest]

What I am trying to say is that should not be the number one thing we are focusing on....

 

To look at all the treasures I will have in heaven....

 

 

Whom have I in heaven but thee?

 

and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

 

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Psalms 73:25-26

[Kan]

Jesus made all things, both visible and invisible, He made the worlds, the universe and all the things in it.

I don't know of a greater materialist than Jesus.

 

Some people spiritualize everything away.

The resurrection is replaced by a ghost experience,

the coming of Christ - "only spiritual eyes" will see that,

people are secretly whisked away into heaven without notice,

heaven is a cloudy, out of focus, happy white fog,

the flood was only a spiritually symbolic myth,

Adam and Eve were just a figure of speech,

"mansions" in heaven means "small bark huts" - the new MT Bible.

[angels4u]

 

 

If that is not the case, and we do not know until we get there, I don't need a mansion

If you promise your child something big and she would tell you that she not really wants it,would this sound ungrateful to you ?

 

Once I was clothed in the rags of my sin

Wretched and poor lost and lonely within

But with wonderous compassion the King of all Kings

In pity and love took me under his wing.

Oh yes, oh yes, I'm a child of the King

His royal blood now flows in my veins

And I who was wretched and poor now can sing

Praise God Praise God I'm a child of the King.

Now I'm a child with a heavenly home

My holy father has made me his own

And I am cleansed by his blood and I'm clothed in his love

And someday I'll sing with the angels above.

Oh yes, oh yes, I'm a child of the King

His royal blood now flows in my veins

And I who was wretched and poor now can sing

Praise God Praise God I'm a child of the King...

 

Thank you Jesus for all the things You have in store for us and most of all to see you face to face.

 

Revelation 21:21

 

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

 

 

We will walk those streets of gold~~

Oh...angels4u you done went and made me cry with all the words in your post here. It a good cry though.

 

Dear Openly Curious,we do have so much to look forward to,don't we?

Some day we walk and dance  the streets of gold and spend all the time in the world with our Savior!

Forever and ever

[Guest shiloh357]

The word "mansion" doesn't mean in the Greek the same thing as our western materialistic minds think of when we think of "mansions."     The false teachers and false prophets have used this verse to incorrectly present the word 'dwelling places"  to refer to something akin to 150 room mansions for every believer.   

 

It was common in ancient Jewish culture to refer to heaven as God's house.   Jesus was not talking about each believer living in something akin to Buckingham palace. He was using the imagery of a slave being honored by being given a room in the house of the master.    Jesus, in no way, was talking about the purely western, concept of a mansion.

[Kan]

We could do a study on heaven and find out for sure.

 

Say for instance, in Hebrews it says that Abram looked for a city whose builder and maker is God.

 

It has a wall, great and high, 144 cubits or 79 meters thick and high. 

 

Heaven is big enough to give everyone a mansion - a big roomy house, plus acreage.

 

The City of God is a mountain as wide as our moon, in it's diagonal measurement.

It is like a planet on its own, except that it has a square base which follows the contour of the planet it is on. The surface area of this mountain-like structure is about the same as the whole of North America, that is, Canada and the US, and none of it is uninhabitable.

 

One human being has lived there for over 5,000 years and yet it is very likely that human eyes have never seen many parts of heaven to this day, despite the presence of thousands of other human beings who came there with the resurrection of Christ.

It has millions of individual landscapes, there is plenty of room for real mansions.  

[Guest Thallasa]

I agree with you that God makes most beautiful things .I am now Lucky to live in a countryside with flowers and herbs of bright colours ,

and churches built to His glory ,but I never really looked for that ,as although I love beauty ,simple beauty not too rich like in India

for example,tommorow if He takes it away I am ready to do without . It is of the heart and mind that I need my God and if He gives me other gifts I will not refuse them .

When you look at history the rich and powerful and often pagan had beautiful mansions,and jewels ,

and fancy clothes ;Now they have aéroplanes ,and limousines,and they will probably be taken from them ,as they thay have looked in the wrong places for their treasures  .Only that which God gives you  is permanent ,and He has promised to give to those of  meek and humble  hearts which  are generous  to others ,not searching personal gratification . So even if God has the most beautiful places in heaven , they are not to be  'lusted after ' . If He gave to the 'lustful',  how could He trust them not have 'followed 'HIm just for material gain ?   There must be a transformation of the heart first  ,and a willingness to do without, until God decides what you can have .

Edited April 18, 2015 by Thallasa