We all know the Jdubs boast about the Earthly hope. They also love to boast about their conversations with those who feel they have a heavenly hope. They will mention how when they ask people this question: "What will you do in heaven?", that the only answer ever given is "to be with the Lord", that individual having no real idea of what he would be doing. Personally I've never had such an experience so I'm curious as to how others might answer it....
How did/do/will you answer the question..."What will you do in heaven?"
by stillstuckcruz 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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cantleave
I'll be snorting Christ's Cocaine!
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Bella15
Hmmmm ... one of Christ's followers quoting from Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4 "Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.) said "However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" ...
Abraham considered himself an alien here on earth: Hebrews 11:9 - By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; 10 for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand that is by the seashore. 13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
The book of Revelation gives a glimpse of that "country" ...
As far as your question "what will you do in heaven?" I cannot answer that in the flesh, I think of this things in the Spirit, I can only give my testimony of how when I found out I was in the "LIE" - the thought of "heaven" opened for me not because someone "sold" it to me it was during reading the bible, it was a process, the Holy Spirit teaching me to the point that I was afraid and was thinking to myself I don't want to live in "heaven" I wan to be here on "earth" with my children, then a voice in my mind said, "it is not up to you", I know when that voice is not me because it is like an echo in a med size white room and I immediately get convicted and I have to kneel down and praise God and submit myself to His will ... trust me it is nothing spooky or religious experience, it is sweet as honey to feel that connection, it is a relationship in the Spirit with God, with Jesus. By this I don't mean I am going to the "heaven" people talks about and knows nothing of it , by this I mean I understood the city Abraham look forward to, its dwellers, the reward. Like Abraham I take this by Faith. It is all there, spreadout throught the pages of the Bible. Some christians get confused becaused they keep denying that God has kept and will keep His promises to Abraham. The Apostles didn't teach that. God Himself will make the new earth and heaven, the home of righteousness according to His promise (to Abraham); He says: Look I am making everything new (He himself not humans)
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Voices
I don't think i'll ever get to see the heaven....i'm too much of a horrible person, and have SO many issues that there's no way I could 'let go of them all' so that i am holding onto 'nothing' in heaven. But If I did...
I would like to feel the love and just bask in it's ever ending comfort, under the sky, the tree's. (if those things are there) I would just....want....love. Freedom from my mind and every form of judgement, pain or suffering. I would hope that I am used for a special purpose.. or have special abilities...but I think that's just fuckin' arrogant.
But there's just too much wrong with me.
Me
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tec
I don't know. What we were intended to do from the beginning. Live, love, flourish. I don't have specific details, but life is life.
Peace,
Tammy
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factfinder
I was born to live on earth. Its what i want to do. the earthly paradise appealed very much to me. I don't believe in going to heaven. It is an alien realm-the things I enjoy are on earth.
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punkofnice
I'll ask God if I can take a ride on his 'active horse'.
TBH. It isn't something I think too much about, probably because I'll really not sure what I believe anymore.
I honestly cannot see that any of my prayers have ever been answered.
What does annoy me is the way JDubs sneer and ask: 'What are you going to do? Float around on clouds playing harps?'
Twots!!
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sizemik
I'll probably volunteer for attendant . . . doing the meet and greet thing. That will have me working with Br Pete on the door.
There's some JW's who are going to have to eat some humble pie when they arrive and see me there with Pete.
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cofty
Apparently those in heaven will spend an eternity singing songs to god to tell him how awesome he is - what a bunch of sycophants.
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Qcmbr
I suspect I'll be looking for good wifi connection so I can see what's happening on JWN.