The delusion of confusing “heaven” with the new Earth

The delusion of confusing “heaven” with the new Earth

When we ask the average believer today about eternal life, most of the time he will not talk about the new Earth and new heavens or the resurrection of the body as described in the Bible. Instead, he will most likely answer that after physical death, the human soul goes to a place most often called “heaven”, where it will reside for eternity.

Heaven or Earth?

Of course, the Bible in no way denies the existence of God’s sphere, the Third Heaven, and life in it. However, this is not the final place of residence of the righteous, but only a temporary state. People in the Third Heaven are waiting in separate compartments for God’s judgment and for the resurrection of the body. At the resurrection (which will occur at the second coming of Jesus Christ), the human spirit then returns to our physical space and unites with a resurrected, immortal body that will eternally inhabit the new Creation, the new heavens and the new Earth that God will make:

“Blessed are the humble, for they shall inherit the earth; behold, I will create new heavens and new Earth… this is just a fraction of the Bible verses that clearly identify the (new) EARTH as the final place for God’s faithful.”

And they shall resort to fables…

The shelves of church organization libraries are filled with books containing fictitious stories and made-up “testimonies” of alleged sojourns and experiences in heaven. Instead of sound teaching, pastors and preachers engage in heavenly fictions and FABLES, which are propagated by the unlimited power of the Talking Image of the Beast. This phenomenon is so widespread that it completely corresponds to the Bible prophecy that in the last days people will not tolerate sound teaching, but will resort to fables.

By confusing the temporary state (heaven) with the final (new heavens and earth), church organizations in their rhetoric and teaching relegate the biblical resurrection to the background and instead preach the outlandish rhetoric of an eternal afterlife in “heaven.” This confusion is a huge blasphemy and spitting in God’s face, because it is a reduction of the biblical message and God’s plan (which mainly includes Man, but also the whole Creation) to the level of pagan religions, in which there is also an afterlife where human souls are supposed to dwell forever (Elysium, Reed fields, etc.).

This confusion also leads to incorrect conclusions and incorrect description of the facts in out-of-body experiences, so-called OOBEs. In addition, if we follow these experiences by their fruit (that is, according to how it manifests itself and what it leads to), then we will find that the vast majority of people who have experienced near-death experiences (NDEs) did not turn to God based on them, but found infatuation with demonic teachings.

The influence of Gnosticism on the churches today is HUGE

According to these teachings, the human body is not created in God’s image and part of the integrity of the human being, but is considered as a kind of husk that the “true self” of a person only temporarily wears, so that it can finally be discarded as no longer needed and ascend into the ether. This idea stems from Gnosticism, whose main premise is that all material physical things are inherently evil, which cannot exist in any holy form, and therefore the only way to escape sin is to shed the body and become a purely immaterial, ethereal being . This is completely contrary to the Bible, which states that God made all His Creation as GOOD and that the source of all evil thinking is not the FLESH, but the treacherous human HEART.

Compromising interpretations

Some Church Organizations try to enforce a compromise between Gnosticism and the Bible, for example, by speaking of the resurrection, but at the same time claiming that the resurrected body is not a real body of flesh and bones, but something ethereal and abstract. Or that the new heavens and the new earth are not HEAVEN and EARTH, but just some metaphorical designation for Heaven. All these compromise interpretations are just an attempt by church organizations to bypass the biblical message of the resurrection and dilute it into meaningless gnostic heresies (so that the gnostic can eat himself and the Bible remains whole…). The very idea that a body can be some immaterial abstraction is the same as the idea that there can be a round square or a square circle. It is logical nonsense and attributing properties to concepts that, in principle, must have a completely different property.