{"id":997,"date":"2018-10-08T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2018-10-29T07:51:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:51:46","slug":"heaven-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Heaven Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"regular\"><span class=\"reftext\">The beginning of this message did not record, so it picks up in progress.\u00a0 We started with Revelation 21:1-5 which says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\"><em><span class=\"reftext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/revelation\/21-1.htm\"><b>1<\/b><\/a><\/span>Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.\u00a0<span class=\"reftext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/revelation\/21-2.htm\"><b>2<\/b><\/a><\/span>And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.\u00a0<span class=\"reftext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/revelation\/21-3.htm\"><b>3<\/b><\/a><\/span>And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, \u201cBehold, the dwelling place<span class=\"footnote\"><sup><a title=\"Or tabernacle\" href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/esv\/revelation\/21.htm#footnotes\">a<\/a><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,<span class=\"footnote\"><sup><a title=\"Some manuscripts peoples\" href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/esv\/revelation\/21.htm#footnotes\">b<\/a><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0and God himself will be with them as their God.<span class=\"footnote\"><sup><a title=\"Some manuscripts omit as their God\" href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/esv\/revelation\/21.htm#footnotes\">c<\/a><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"reftext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/revelation\/21-4.htm\"><b>4<\/b><\/a><\/span>He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.\u00a0<span class=\"reftext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/revelation\/21-5.htm\"><b>5<\/b><\/a><\/span>And he who was seated on the throne said, \u201cBehold, I am making all things new.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-997-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10-7-18.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10-7-18.mp3\">http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10-7-18.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Heaven right now is not the way it always will be.<\/p>\n<p>Revelation 21:1-5<\/p>\n<p>The present Heaven is not visible to us&#8230; but some have seen glimpses of it.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is there now&#8230;\u00a0and so are the believers who have died.<\/p>\n<p>2 Corinthians 5:6, 8 \u201cWe know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord\u2026 and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The present Heaven engages in worship.<\/p>\n<p>Revelation 6:9-11<\/p>\n<p>The present Heaven is concerned about what\u2019s happening on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Luke 15:7, 10<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 12:1<\/p>\n<p>Heaven right now is cheering you on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of this message did not record, so it picks up in progress.\u00a0 We started with Revelation 21:1-5 which says: 1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.\u00a02And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heaven Right Now<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-things-new","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}