Heaven

Have you ever wondered...?

What is Heaven really going to be like? What will we look like? What will we do every day? Won’t Heaven get boring after a while? We all have questions about what Heaven will be like, and after twenty-five years of extensive research, Dr. Randy Alcorn has the answers.

In the most comprehensive and definitive book on Heaven to date, Randy invites you to picture Heaven the way Scripture describes it―a bright, vibrant, and physical New Earth, free from sin, suffering, and death, and brimming with Christ’s presence, wondrous natural beauty, and the richness of human culture as God intended it.

This is a book about real people with real bodies enjoying close relationships with God and each other, eating, drinking, working, playing, traveling, worshiping, and discovering on a New Earth. Earth as God created it. Earth as he intended it to be.

The next time you hear someone say, “We can’t begin to image what Heaven will be like,” you’ll be able to tell them, “I can.”

1. Opening Credits
2. Introduction
3. Part 1: A Theology of Heaven
4. Section 1: Realizing Our Destiny
5. Chapter 1: Are You Looking Forward to Heaven?
6. Chapter 2: Is Heaven Beyond Our Imagination?
7. Chapter 3: Is Heaven Our Default Destination . . . or Is Hell?
8. Chapter 4: Can You Know You’re Going to Heaven?
9. Section 2: Understanding the Present Heaven
10. Chapter 5: What Is the Nature of the Present Heaven?
11. Chapter 6: Is the Present Heaven a Physical Place?
12. Chapter 7: What Is Life Like in the Present Heaven?
13. Section 3: Grasping Redemption's Far Reach
14. Chapter 8: This World Is Not Our Home . . . or Is It?
15. Chapter 9: Why Is Earth’s Redemption Essential to God’s Plan?
16. Chapter 10: What Will It Mean for the Curse to Be Lifted?
17. Section 4: Anticipating Resurrection
18. Chapter 11: Why Is Resurrection So Important?
19. Chapter 12: Why Does All Creation Await Our Resurrection?
20. Chapter 13: How Far-Reaching Is the Resurrection?
21. Section 5: Seeing the Earth Restored
22. Chapter 14: Where and When Will Our Deliverance Come?
23. Chapter 15: Will the Old Earth Be Destroyed . . . or Renewed?
24. Chapter 16: Will the New Earth Be Familiar . . . like Home?
25. Section 6: Celebrating Our Relationship With God
26. Chapter 17: What Will It Mean to See God?
27. Chapter 18: What Will It Mean for God to Dwell among Us?
28. Chapter 19: How Will We Worship God?
29. Section 7: Ruling on the New Earth
30. Chapter 20: What Does God’s Eternal Kingdom Involve?
31. Chapter 21: Will We Actually Rule with Christ?
32. Chapter 22: How Will We Rule God’s Kingdom?
33. Part 2: Questions and Answers About Heaven
34. Section 8: What Will the Resurrected Earth Be Like?
35. Chapter 23: Will the New Earth Be an Edenic Paradise?
36. Chapter 24: What Is the New Jerusalem?
37. Chapter 25: What Will the Great City Be Like?
38. Chapter 26: Will There Be Space and Time?
39. Chapter 27: Will the New Earth Have Sun, Moon, Oceans, and Weather?
40. Section 9: What Will Our Lives Be Like?
41. Chapter 28: Will We Be Ourselves?
42. Chapter 29: What Will Our Bodies Be Like?
43. Chapter 30: Will We Eat and Drink on the New Earth?
44. Chapter 31: Will We Be Capable of Sinning?
45. Chapter 32: What Will We Know and Learn?
46. Chapter 33: What Will Our Daily Lives Be Like?
47. Section 10: What Will Our Relationships Be Like?
48. Chapter 34: Will We Desire Relationships with Anyone Except God?
49. Chapter 35: Will There Be Marriage, Families, and Friendships?
50. Chapter 36: Whom Will We Meet, and What Will We Experience Together?
51. Chapter 37: How Will We Relate to Each Other?
52. Chapter 38: What Will New Earth Society Be Like?
53. Section 11: What About Animals?
54. Chapter 39: Will Animals Inhabit the New Earth?
55. Chapter 40: Will Animals, Including Our Pets, Live Again?
56. Section 12: What Will We Do in Heaven?
57. Chapter 41: Will Heaven Ever Be Boring?
58. Chapter 42: Will There Be Arts, Entertainment, and Sports?
59. Chapter 43: Will Our Dreams Be Fulfilled and Missed Opportunities Regained?
60. Chapter 44:Will We Design Crafts, Technology, and New Modes of Travel?
61. Part 3: Living in Light of Heaven
62. Chapter 45: Reorienting Ourselves to Heaven as Our Home
63. Chapter 46: Anticipating the Great Adventure
64. Appendix A: Christoplatonism’s False Assumptions
65. Appendix B: Literal and Figurative Interpretation
66. Closing Credits