Is eternity in Heaven really pleasing?

Well as long as you are not suffering there will be little reason to end it all.
As for boredom, it depends on the type of minds and psychology that we will have in part but assuming minds like we have now more or less, chances are that God will keep on creating and there will always be things to do.
Just think how long it would take to explore this universe if you could live long enough let alone whatever else there may be out there or outside of this universe.
If you are experiencing joy then you probably won't have much to complain about.

Maybe you could just go to sleep for a couple of thousand years at a time and just wake up to catch up what has happened in the meantime before going back to sleep once you started to get bored again.

Fish14 said:

"Heaven" is described in the Revelation as a new Earth and new heavens with God present among us. It sounds amazing, but why don't you get bored after a few millenia and anxious about the infinite years still ahead of you?

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I don’t think we quite comprehend a love that surpasses all understanding. I think this will add so much to our lives and bring us so mNy new experiences.

If God created
Such a good life here with beauty, plants, animals and hobbies who knows what great things He is preparing for us.

Fish14 said:

"Heaven" is described in the Revelation as a new Earth and new heavens with God present among us. It sounds amazing, but why don't you get bored after a few millenia and anxious about the infinite years still ahead of you?

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Truth is our flesh is just addicted to this sinful earth. As much as we don't want to leave it we will be much better off in our next life.

Now to just convince the flesh of that.

M-Bob

We have no idea what GOD has prepared for us.

Larry Yoder said:

We have no idea what GOD has prepared for us.

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Probably for the best though the Bible does give us a few hints.

Fish14 said:

"Heaven" is described in the Revelation as a new Earth and new heavens with God present among us. It sounds amazing, but why don't you get bored after a few millenia and anxious about the infinite years still ahead of you?

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At what point do young adults long for death and decay?
With eternal youth and eternal life -- who would "long for cancer"?

BTW Rev 21 is not heaven -- rather the Holy City comes down out of Heaven - to Earth and the Earth is made new.

The science to explore not just an entire galaxy - but the entire universe of galaxies -- would take a vast eternity

Mountainmanbob said:

Probably for the best though the Bible does give us a few hints.

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Satan's work of ruin is forever ended. For six thousand years he has wrought his will, filling the earth with woe and causing grief throughout the universe. The whole creation has groaned and travailed together in pain. Now God's creatures are forever delivered from his presence and temptations. "The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they [the righteous] break forth into singing." Isaiah 14:7. And a shout of praise and triumph ascends from the whole loyal universe. "The voice of a great multitude," "as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings," is heard, saying: "Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Revelation 19:6.

While the earth was wrapped in the fire of destruction, the righteous abode safely in the Holy City. Upon those that had part in the first resurrection, the second death has no power. While God is to the wicked a consuming fire, He is to His people both a sun and a shield. Revelation 20:6; Psalm 84:11.

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"I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away." Revelation 21:1. The fire that consumes the wicked purifies the earth. Every trace of the curse is swept away. No eternally burning hell will keep before the ransomed the fearful consequences of sin.

One reminder alone remains: Our Redeemer will ever bear the marks of His crucifixion. Upon His wounded head, upon His side, His hands and feet, are the only traces of the cruel work that sin has wrought. Says the prophet, beholding Christ in His glory: "He had bright beams coming out of His side: and there was the hiding of His power." Habakkuk 3:4, margin. That pierced side whence flowed the crimson stream that reconciled man to God--there is the Saviour's glory, there "the hiding of His power." "Mighty to save," through the sacrifice of redemption, He was therefore strong to execute justice upon them that despised God's mercy. And the tokens of His humiliation are His highest honor; through the eternal ages the wounds of Calvary will show forth His praise and declare His power.

"O Tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto Thee shall it come, even the first dominion." Micah 4:8. The time has come to which holy men have looked with longing since the flaming sword barred the first pair from Eden, the time for "the redemption of the purchased possession." Ephesians 1:14. The earth originally given to man as his kingdom, betrayed by him into the hands of Satan, and so long held by the mighty foe, has been brought back by the great plan of redemption. All that was lost by sin has been restored. "Thus saith the Lord . . . that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited." Isaiah 45:18. God's original purpose in the creation of the earth is fulfilled as it is made the eternal abode of the redeemed. "The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever." Psalm 37:29.

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has led many to spiritualize away the very truths which lead us to look upon it as our home. Christ assured His disciples that He went to prepare mansions for them in the Father's house. Those who accept the teachings of God's word will not be wholly ignorant concerning the heavenly abode. And yet, "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." 1 Corinthians 2:9. Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the righteous. It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite mind can comprehend the glory of the Paradise of God.

In the Bible the inheritance of the saved is called "a country." Hebrews 11:14-16. There the heavenly Shepherd leads His flock to fountains of living waters. The tree of life yields its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations. There are ever-flowing streams, clear as crystal, and beside them waving trees cast their shadows upon the paths prepared for the ransomed of the Lord. There the wide-spreading plains swell into hills of beauty, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits. On those peaceful plains, beside those living streams, God's people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home.

"My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places." "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise." "They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: . . . Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands." Isaiah 32:18; 60:18; 65:21, 22.

There, "the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree." "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall

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lie down with the kid; . . . and a little child shall lead them." "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," saith the Lord. Isaiah 35:1; 55:13; 11:6, 9.

Pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of heaven. There will be no more tears, no funeral trains, no badges of mourning. "There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying: . . . for the former things are passed away." "The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity." Revelation 21:4; Isaiah 33:24.

There is the New Jerusalem, the metropolis of the glorified new earth, "a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God." "Her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal." "The nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it." Saith the Lord: "I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people." "The tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God." Isaiah 62:3; Revelation 21:11, 24; Isaiah 65:19; Revelation 21:3.

In the City of God "there shall be no night." None will need or desire repose. There will be no weariness in doing the will of God and offering praise to His name. We shall ever feel the freshness of the morning and shall ever be far from its close. "And they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light." Revelation 22:5. The light of the sun will be superseded by a radiance which is not painfully dazzling, yet which immeasurably surpasses the brightness of our noontide. The glory of God and the Lamb floods the Holy City with unfading light. The redeemed walk in the sunless glory of perpetual day.

"I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." Revelation 21:22. The people of God are privileged to hold open communion with the Father and the Son. "Now we see through a glass, darkly."

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1 Corinthians 13:12. We behold the image of God reflected, as in a mirror, in the works of nature and in His dealings with men; but then we shall see Him face to face, without a dimming veil between. We shall stand in His presence and behold the glory of His countenance.

There the redeemed shall know, even as also they are known. The loves and sympathies which God Himself has planted in the soul shall there find truest and sweetest exercise. The pure communion with holy beings, the harmonious social life with the blessed angels and with the faithful ones of all ages who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, the sacred ties that bind together "the whole family in heaven and earth" (Ephesians 3:15)--these help to constitute the happiness of the redeemed.

There, immortal minds will contemplate with never-failing delight the wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love. There will be no cruel, deceiving foe to tempt to forgetfulness of God. Every faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. There the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized; and still there will arise new heights to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend, fresh objects to call forth the powers of mind and soul and body.

All the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of God's redeemed. Unfettered by mortality, they wing their tireless flight to worlds afar--worlds that thrilled with sorrow at the spectacle of human woe and rang with songs of gladness at the tidings of a ransomed soul. With unutterable delight the children of earth enter into the joy and the wisdom of unfallen beings. They share the treasures of knowledge and understanding gained through ages upon ages in contemplation of God's handiwork. With undimmed vision they gaze upon the glory of creation--suns and stars and systems, all in their appointed order circling the throne

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of Deity. Upon all things, from the least to the greatest, the Creator's name is written, and in all are the riches of His power displayed.

And the years of eternity, as they roll, will bring richer and still more glorious revelations of God and of Christ. As knowledge is progressive, so will love, reverence, and happiness increase. The more men learn of God, the greater will be their admiration of His character. As Jesus opens before them the riches of redemption and the amazing achievements in the great controversy with Satan, the hearts of the ransomed thrill with more fervent devotion, and with more rapturous joy they sweep the harps of gold; and ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of voices unite to swell the mighty chorus of praise.

"And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." Revelation 5:13.

The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.

Fish14 said:

"Heaven" is described in the Revelation as a new Earth and new heavens with God present among us. It sounds amazing, but why don't you get bored after a few millenia and anxious about the infinite years still ahead of you?

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Hi Fish! I've had this question cross my mind as well. My thought is that God is fully capable of keeping life interesting for us. You know the verse:

but just as it is written, "THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."
(1 Corinthians 2:9 NASB)

Place your hope in God, who in all His fullness makes heaven what it is!

Q: ...why don't saved believer's "get bored" in the heavenly realms for eternity with the TRI-UNE GOD, angels, and other saved believers ??.....

A: the heavenly realms is a SPIRIT kingdom of God/heaven. We are free of flesh: body + soul. We have "spirit bodies" who have their "eyes" focused on Jesus.

Hebrews 12:2
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God

All believers will have "spirit-bodies" LIKE Jesus the God-Man WITHOUT ANY needs of the "flesh"...
needs of their old deceased Body / Soul combo.

Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die (BODY/SOUL combo) once
and after this comes judgment,(of immortal SPIRIT)

1 Corinthians 15: 42-49 (NASB) ...Jesus' Resurrection promises all believers a "spiritual body"

Philippians 3 : 10, 20 (NIV1984)
Jesus' "glorious body"

1 John 3:2 (NASB)
2 Beloved (fellow believers), now we are "children of God", and it has not appeared as yet what we will be.
We know that when He appears, we will be LIKE Him,
because we will see Him just as He is.(GOD + MAN)

Romans 6:5 (NASB)
5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the LIKENESS of His resurrection,

Romans 8:11 (NASB)
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give (immortal) life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Ecclesiastes 12: 1-8 ...Remember God in Your Youth...because the Body / Soul deteriorates until death
7 then the dust (Body/Soul combo) will return to the earth as it was (Genesis creation!2:7),
and the (Man's) SPIRIT will return to God who gave it.(Genesis 1:26)

Mark 12:25
For when they rise from the dead,
they neither marry nor are given in marriage,
but are LIKE ANGELS in heaven. (spirit beings)

Revelation 21(NASB)...ETERNAL SPIRITUAL PEACE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD IS NOT "BORING"!
3b “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men,
and He will dwell among them,
and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,
4 and He will:
wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will
no longer be any death; there will
no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain;
the first things have passed away.

Fish14 said:

It sounds amazing, but why don't you get bored after a few millenia....

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A universe made by an infinite God could be interesting for a very long time, but boring people can be bored with anything.

Fish14 said:

"Heaven" is described in the Revelation as a new Earth and new heavens with God present among us. It sounds amazing, but why don't you get bored after a few millenia and anxious about the infinite years still ahead of you?

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When one learns to live in the moment, time loses its meaning.