When the word heaven first appears in the Bible,
it appears next to another word. The very first sentence of the Bible,
Beretshit bara Elohim 'et hashamayim v'et ha'aretz. In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. Or God created heaven and earth. Now that's the beginning, Genesis.
At the end of the Bible, and that's the very first sentence, in the end of the Bible
Book of Revelation, near the very end, it says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
Same thing. It's always heaven and earth. Heaven and earth. Heaven and earth go together.
What does that tell you right there? Heaven and earth. There are two realities.
Two places. There's heaven, and there's earth. Now earth here also means
the world, means creation. More than earth. But heaven and earth. So what does that tell you?
First of all it tells you that they're different. Because there are these
two different realities. So heaven is different from Earth. It contrasts.
It's from whatever we know on earth, there's something so different. But it also means
they are related to each other. There's a connection between heaven and earth.
They're, they, they correspond to each other. What happens on heaven, in heaven
is linked to earth. What happens on earth is linked to heaven. And notice it's never
earth and heaven. It's always heaven and earth. Why? Heaven is first. What does that
tell us? What revelation is there? It tells us first of all, we think of heaven
as being last. In other words heaven is the place you go to at the end.
But the truth is, heaven is first. Before the earth. Heaven is the original reality.
It's the, it's the, it's the more natural reality than Earth. It's more, it's more
real than this world. It's the real life. This world is second. We tend to think
in, in terms of earth, we, because we're earth, we, we grow up on earth. We have earth-based
thoughts, earth-based feelings, earth-based life. Heaven's up there.
I'm down here. I'm struggling on earth. Here's heaven. We're on earth. Heaven's there.
Heaven's the other place. But the Bible saying that heaven is first.
It's the original place. It's actually home. It's actually more home than where we are right now.
When we get to heaven it's not gonna be strange.
I mean it's gonna be very different, but it's gonna be home.
... for the first time we'll say, we're home. So the secret is to learn to think
in heaven-based thoughts, heaven-based feelings, a heaven-based life. You're on earth
And you've got heaven. heaven is lofty, above. You've got,
you've got that. But, but here it's, what it's saying is that there's, it's saying that
there's more to our lives here. Shamayim has the im, but arets, earth. Say arets.
Try them together. Shamayim, that's heaven. Arets, that's earth.
So notice the difference. Shamayim has the im. Arets, earth,
doesn't have any im. What does that tell you? Heaven is plural. Earth is just singular.
That, what does that mean? What does it mean? The earth is finite. Creation is finite.
It's singular. Finite. Heaven is infinite. Heaven. Earth is limited, in time.
Heaven goes on in time, forever. There's more, is what it's saying, there's more going on.
So what does that tell you right now? It means right there you can never
fulfill what God, you know God says, the Bible says God put eternity in your heart.
So you're always longing for eternity. You're longing for infinity.
You're longing for that. But you can never fulfill that with things on earth
because earth is only finite. It's singular. You can't fulfill your heart with things
of Earth. It just doesn't work. You can, you can, you can for a moment feel
something, but then it's gonna pass. You can never fulfill a heavenly shaped
vacuum within, with earthly finite things. So for instance you get a new car.
Yeah, you think that's it. Wow. You know you think about it all day.
You got a new car. You look out the window. Hi car. You park it about 400 feet away
from all the other cars because you don't want a scratch on it. But after a little while
the honeymoon's over. It's just a car. You know, so even a new
car is of the arets. So it's limited. Its singular. It's finite. It can never fill you.
But what if you get, what if I ... get more things? I get more things down here.
What if I get more money, more possessions, more status, more success.
I get. Well that'll give you a little thrill at the beginning. But then it's
gonna wear off as well. Because all those things are of the arets. Arets is singular.
Finite. So doesn't matter how many finite things you have it's never gonna be infinite.
That's why it can never fill your heart and all these things that
are finite are limited. So the more things you have you're just gonna be more
limited. ... you can get more weighed down if you put your trust in that. That's why
people, the world is filled with people who have all the money they could ever use
and can never use and that, and more fame than they can handle, and they're
miserable. And there are people without any of that and who are full of joy.
Because one is filling themselves up with the arets. The other's filling themselves up with
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