What Does the Bible Actually Say About Heaven?

The pearly gates are in the Bible. So are the streets of gold. What surprises most people is what they are attached to — a city with walls, foundations and measurements, coming down onto a renewed earth. Here is what the text actually describes, and where the clouds and harps came from. Every claim in this video is sourced on screen. SCRIPTURE CITED (King James Version) Matthew 6:10 · Revelation 21:1–4 · Isaiah 65:17–23 · Revelation 21:18–21 · Revelation 21:22 · Revelation 22:1–5 · 1 Corinthians 15:20, 15:35–44, 15:50 · Romans 8:19–23 · Luke 24:39–43 · John 20:27 · Luke 23:43 · Philippians 1:23 · 2 Corinthians 5:8 · 1 Thessalonians 4:13 · 2 Corinthians 12:2–4 · Matthew 22:30 · Hebrews 1:14 · John 14:2 ON THE HISTORY OF THE POPULAR IMAGE Dante, The Divine Comedy, completed c. 1320 John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar, November 1868 — written during the last year of the American Civil War; roughly 80,000 copies sold in America and 100,000 in Britain; by the 1880s "Gates Ajar" was a standard funeral flower arrangement On John 14:2: the Greek word is monai, meaning a dwelling place or room. It occurs only twice in the New Testament, both in John 14 If you have not seen it, the companion video asks whether we will recognise the people we have loved. New videos every Tuesday and Friday. Take your time.