It Is Written Bible Study Guides
Lesson 5 As Good as It Gets – Answers
1. Is there a place called heaven?
I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
2. What is the Bible actually referring to when it mentions heaven?
So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air.
I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
3. Is heaven a physical place to which God’s people can go?
An inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, would have told you.
4. How will we get to heaven?
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
5. What is heaven going to be like?
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.
6. Has anyone ever seen heaven and written about it?
He was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words.
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven.
7. What have Bible writers seen in heaven?
Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.
8. What other significant aspect of heaven is revealed in the book of Revelation?
Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple.
9. Where is Jesus now, and what is He doing?
We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected.
10. Will God’s people be in heaven for all eternity?
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
11. What will the New Earth be like?
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
12. What does God intend to do throughout eternity?
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
13. How is the New Earth described in the book of Revelation?
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life.
14. Discover these remarkable facts about the New Earth that
God will make.
And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
15. What does the Bible say God’s people will do in the New Earth?
They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
16. How else does God describe the blessedness of our forever home?
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them.
17. How can a person have the assurance that he or she can look forward to eternity with God?
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
18. What great promise did Jesus make us with regard to heaven?
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.