Musing – What will we be doing in Heaven?

Hebraic Musing – What will we be doing in Heaven?

In a recent study of the book of Revelation, we asked “What will there be for us to do in this Perfect Heaven described in Chapter 21’s description of the “New Jerusalem”?  Eternal time on our hands!  What will we be doing? 

Before discussing what we will not be doing, we did decide it may take eternity to understand the Almighty-ness of Almighty God.  I was reminded of my favorite line in “Fiddler on the Roof”.  Tevye was singing ♫“If I were a Rich Man” ♫ and after many dreamy things he wanted to do, he concludes contemplatively “If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack …To sit in the synagogue and pray… And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall….And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day….That would be the sweetest thing of all.”  So that is what we could be doing in Heaven.  I like it!

What would we not have to do?

In Genesis we have God’s first commandment to us, or to Adam and Eve.  He commanded them to “Be fruitful and multiply” Gen.1:28   That is all God wanted them to do.  In the last verse in Gen.1 God explains to Adam that the garden and the beasts are all provided.  The self-sustaining Garden of Eden was provided by God, no work required of us.  Can this be the state we will be restored to in Heaven?

What went wrong?  Man sinned.  We did not obey God’s second command – “Do not eat of the tree of Good and Evil.”  Thus the curse in Gen 3:17-19 "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.  It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.  By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." NIV   And so here on earth to this day we are focused on the need to ‘work’ or to be working.

We have just discussed two views on what we will be doing in Heaven:

1.      Studying to gain all the knowledge and understanding from Almighty God.

2.      Obeying God’s first commandment.  But how?  “No marriage in heaven”; and no need to evangelize in heaven.

Point to ponder

Are we breaking God’s first commandment – “To be fruitful and multiply”?

What do you think we will we be doing in Heaven for eternity?

Lord, how can we get more souls to enjoy heaven with us?

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                                   January 17, 2016

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