the promise of the new earth randy alcorn

Over the years I’ve received thousands of letters and had hundreds of conversations with people about the Heaven books. I’ve often regretted that great words of insight into Heaven and the New Earth have been left to sit unseen in hundreds of files in my computer!

I underlined particularly significant portions of many of these, but only a small amount of the most interesting material made it into that book or my other books on the subject, including In Light of Eternity, 50 Days of Heaven, TouchPoints: Heaven, Heaven for Kids, and We Shall See God. Anthropological evidence suggests that every culture has a God-given, innate sense of the eternal-that this world is not all there is.īut which beliefs are true? And which speculations are grounded on solidly biblical concepts? In researching my book Heaven, I collected and read 150 books on the subject, and I’ve read another dozen since writing it-nearly every book about Heaven I have ever been able to locate. Although various depictions of the afterlife differ, the unifying testimony of the human heart throughout history is belief in life after death. Native Americans believed that in the afterlife their spirits would hunt the spirits of buffalo. Mexicans, Peruvians, and Polynesians believed that they went to the sun or the moon after death. The early Finns thought it was an island in the faraway east. Australian Aborigines pictured Heaven as a distant island beyond the western horizon. The sense that we will live forever somewhere has shaped every civilization in human history. In your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

The promise of the new earth randy alcorn