Our New Mansions

[Dennis1209]

I had a couple of questions pertaining to: John 14:2 (KJV) 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.

I could not find the answers I was looking for in any of my commentaries. So, I reached out and asked my questions to a well-known Bible expert and host of a program. His response surprised me. I had not even thought about that possibility about our new mansions. Ever heard of this thought, and what do you think?

Quote: What I was after in my original reply was that there might be some other line of thinking in regards to the "room" that Jesus mentions in John 14:1-3. Too often we get stuck on the KJV or NKJV translation "mansions." That really is a poor translation for our contemporary audience. If we skip the KJV and go straight to the Greek, we see that the word is "dwelling places." 

I brought up 2 Cor 5 because Paul is discussing his new glorified body or "dwelling places" (not made with hands which is eternal in the heavens). Paul was alive at the time, but was talking about his new glorified body (building) already existing in the heavens!

We might ask, "What do you mean, Paul? How is your new eternal body existing right now in the heavens?"

I think the answer would be when Jesus said He was going to prepare a "dwelling for us" (John 14:2-3), He was really referencing not a mansion, but He was going to heaven to prepare our NEW BODIES for us so that when He returns at the rapture/resurrection, we will get those new bodies in which we will dwell and live forever.

We can show this further because 2 Cor 5:1-2 is showing a contrast between our earthly tent (current weak body) and the new building (eternal) .... where? In the heavens!

Something to at least ponder. :)

Blessings to you!

 

[Ancient]

Or, it can be viewed from the Hebrew perspective and the Hebrew betrothment period. As often the bridegroom would go back to his "father's house" or property and prepare a room or place for his future bride. When the father was happy and approved of the new room or dwelling then he would allow the son to go and take his bride to be.

Don't you just love understanding the Bible and idiomatic expressions through the original culture and language it was written in. As they were Hebrews and they all would of understood exactly what Yeshua was referring to and why. No one knows the day or hour except the Father.

Halleluyah!!!

Shalom

[enoob57]

16 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

I could not find the answers I was looking for in any of my commentaries. So, I reached out and asked my questions to a well-known Bible expert and host of a program. His response surprised me. I had not even thought about that possibility about our new mansions. Ever heard of this thought, and what do you think?

The Bible is clear- what will be there is not comparable to here ... so when we try to make it such we are just spinning our wheels and ignoring Scripture...

[Leonardo Von]

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Our New Mansions

Our real habitation is the heart of people.

[JohnR7]

20 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

Too often we get stuck on the KJV or NKJV translation "mansions." That really is a poor translation for our contemporary audience. If we skip the KJV and go straight to the Greek, we see that the word is "dwelling places." 

Yet the KJV is the translation that God uses. If He can work through the KJV then how much more is He able to do a work in us and through us. God confused language at the tower of Babel but we still have the Ancient Hebrew Language in our Old Testament. Still God is able to work through the Greek. Even though this is a confused language. 

[JohnR7]

20 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

We might ask, "What do you mean, Paul? How is your new eternal body existing right now in the heavens?"

Paul will not receive his glorified body until the resurrection. There will be a new heaven and a new earth and we will receive our new body at that time. This is why Paul says that when we die we sleep. The body sleeps. Our soul goes to Heaven to be with Jesus. 

[missmuffet]

The night before Jesus was crucified, He told His disciples that He would be leaving them and that they could not go with Him (John 13:33). Peter asked where He was going and why they couldn’t go with Him, and Jesus assured them that they would follow Him eventually (John 13:36-37). Jesus said, "In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also" (John 14:2-3).

This saying of Jesus has confused many because of the King James Version’s rendering of the words “house” and “mansions.” The Greek word translated “house” means “an abode,” literally or figuratively, and, by implication, “a family.” The word translated “mansions” or “rooms” means literally “the act of staying or residing.” So, putting the Greek together, Jesus is saying that in God’s home (heaven) there will be many people in the family of God all abiding together. Within God’s heavenly house, Christians will live in the presence of the Lord. This is quite different from the idea of rows of mansions on streets of gold, which is the image many people have of what Jesus was saying.

Jesus Christ prepares a place in heaven for His own, those who have come to Him in faith, and the Holy Spirit prepares the redeemed on earth for their place in heaven. Revelation 7:9 tells us that there will be a "great multitude in heaven that no one could number" all standing before the throne. Here, again, the imagery is of multitudes together, not living separately in different mansions.

https://www.gotquestions.org/mansions-heaven.html

Edited October 16, 2021 by missmuffet