Many Mansions in heaven! (Riches?)

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There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? (John 14:2)



Did you know your mansion is your inhabitation? A house is a humble abode, and always has everything you like inside of it for the most part.

Did you know that your own body is a mansion? Inhabitation. Your heart, is your home, unless your mind is. Either way your body is entirely yours.

Though have you ever thought about the mansions in heaven as a gift God gives that is pleasing to him to you, that might be the spiritual body you obtain after this life, from living by faith and loving God and loving others?

Maybe things are not so literal as we may see them sometimes.

Your thoughts?
 

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All those who are against Riches and money saving and spending now.....should want no parts of any mansions or material riches in heaven.....lest they be hypocrites for looking down on those who obtain riches now....while they are expecting and looking forward to it later.

For them, it is best not the literalize anything related to riches and mansions.

For me.....Im throwing a party in my mansion after I've had a week to decorate. You are all invited.
 
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There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? (John 14:2)



Did you know your mansion is your inhabitation? A house is a humble abode, and always has everything you like inside of it for the most part.

Did you know that your own body is a mansion? Inhabitation. Your heart, is your home, unless your mind is. Either way your body is entirely yours.

Though have you ever thought about the mansions in heaven as a gift God gives that is pleasing to him to you, that might be the spiritual body you obtain after this life, from living by faith and loving God and loving others?

Maybe things are not so literal as we may see them sometimes.

Your thoughts?

Well this actually is reference to the Jewish bridegroom customs. After the engagement the groom to be would leave and start work on some kind of new dwelling, which might be a new house, but often it was building some kind of an extension room or flour to the existing house of his father who he was living with.

So both literally and metaphorically Jesus is doing that for his entire Church aka the body of Christ. We get more than just a room, a floor or some new "house" that in today viewpoint is only a shack. We get a full blown Villa type mansion, at least metaphorically speaking in the Life to Come.


By the Way this also has a lot to do with Him coming back in the last days "As a thief in the Night", and the saying "no man no knows the hour" (of the day of the Lord) The Jews also had surprise wedding celebration custom, where the Bridge groom came back in the middle of the night or some other time not expected to take the bride away to the wedding celebration that was planned.
 
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Well this actually is reference to the Jewish bridegroom customs. After the engagement the groom to be would leave and start work on some kind of new dwelling, which might be a new house, but often it was building some kind of an extension room or flour to the existing house of his father who he was living with.

So both literally and metaphorically Jesus is doing that for his entire Church aka the body of Christ. We get more than just a room, a floor or some new "house" that in today viewpoint is only a shack. We get a full blown Villa type mansion, at least metaphorically speaking in the Life to Come.


By the Way this also has a lot to do with Him coming back in the last days "As a thief in the Night", and the saying "no man no knows the hour" (of the day of the Lord) The Jews also had surprise wedding celebration custom, where the Bridge groom came back in the middle of the night or some other time not expected to take the bride away to the wedding celebration that was planned.
Amen!

Revelation 21
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
 
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There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? (John 14:2)



Did you know your mansion is your inhabitation? A house is a humble abode, and always has everything you like inside of it for the most part.

Did you know that your own body is a mansion? Inhabitation. Your heart, is your home, unless your mind is. Either way your body is entirely yours.

Though have you ever thought about the mansions in heaven as a gift God gives that is pleasing to him to you, that might be the spiritual body you obtain after this life, from living by faith and loving God and loving others?

Maybe things are not so literal as we may see them sometimes.

Your thoughts?

This verse (John 14:2) is so good to reflect to!
 
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Figurative in our eyes is literal in God's eyes - so get ready to be surprised.

Cant say you are wrong. Though God doesn't really deal in material things, as much as he works through human beings by the spirit that is given by him.

God is spirit, though it seems sometimes some believe that after this life maybe we can have a physical applications in the spiritual world.

Are there any answers to that ?

Some use the new heaven, and new earth scriptures though I believe that is talking about how the kingdom of heaven resides in us, and changes the way we view the earth.

All those who are against Riches and money saving and spending now.....should want no parts of any mansions or material riches in heaven.....lest they be hypocrites for looking down on those who obtain riches now....while they are expecting and looking forward to it later.

For them, it is best not the literalize anything related to riches and mansions.

For me.....Im throwing a party in my mansion after I've had a week to decorate. You are all invited.

Raymond, to your point, the apostles worked with their own hands so that they would not have to ask anyone for anything, though I believe the Philippians were the only ones to have helped them at one point in time.

Jesus was a carpenter so it is a good thing to work, save money, pay bills, and ultimately live life.

Thank you for your invitation to your home to come by and visit.

A question comes to mind, is this even the goal we are looking forward to as Christians?

Or are we looking towards being able to live a spiritual life in the inhabitation with God, as close as we can ?

Well this actually is reference to the Jewish bridegroom customs. After the engagement the groom to be would leave and start work on some kind of new dwelling, which might be a new house, but often it was building some kind of an extension room or flour to the existing house of his father who he was living with.

So both literally and metaphorically Jesus is doing that for his entire Church aka the body of Christ. We get more than just a room, a floor or some new "house" that in today viewpoint is only a shack. We get a full blown Villa type mansion, at least metaphorically speaking in the Life to Come.


By the Way this also has a lot to do with Him coming back in the last days "As a thief in the Night", and the saying "no man no knows the hour" (of the day of the Lord) The Jews also had surprise wedding celebration custom, where the Bridge groom came back in the middle of the night or some other time not expected to take the bride away to the wedding celebration that was planned.

Have you ever noticed that the Lord is being addressed as that of a thief, he sure is sneaky. Life can be taken away at a moments notice. What a steal!

Who gives life, who takes life?
 
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There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? (John 14:2)



Did you know your mansion is your inhabitation? A house is a humble abode, and always has everything you like inside of it for the most part.

Did you know that your own body is a mansion? Inhabitation. Your heart, is your home, unless your mind is. Either way your body is entirely yours.

Though have you ever thought about the mansions in heaven as a gift God gives that is pleasing to him to you, that might be the spiritual body you obtain after this life, from living by faith and loving God and loving others?

Maybe things are not so literal as we may see them sometimes.

Your thoughts?
Jesus told people in Jerusalem his body is the temple of YHWH when he said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it up in three days.” (John 2)

I am reminded of a passage from Christ’s “Sermon on the Mount.”

Matthew 6:6 (WEB) “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, 4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

Some chief priests of the Sanhedrin wanted everyone to know they were helping the poor. They impoverished widows to squander their income on a life of luxury. In those days tithes were mandatory. According to the Talmud the chief priests sent agents to the threshing floors at harvest time to collect the tithes of grain.
 
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All those who are against Riches and money saving and spending now.....should want no parts of any mansions or material riches in heaven.....lest they be hypocrites for looking down on those who obtain riches now....while they are expecting and looking forward to it later.

For them, it is best not the literalize anything related to riches and mansions.

For me.....Im throwing a party in my mansion after I've had a week to decorate. You are all invited.

Just what would those riches and possessions be in heaven? I am curious to know.
 
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Raymond, to your point, the apostles worked with their own hands so that they would not have to ask anyone for anything, though I believe the Philippians were the only ones to have helped them at one point in time.

Jesus was a carpenter so it is a good thing to work, save money, pay bills, and ultimately live life.

Thank you for your invitation to your home to come by and visit.

A question comes to mind, is this even the goal we are looking forward to as Christians?

Or are we looking towards being able to live a spiritual life in the inhabitation with God, as close as we can ?

I believe we are free to set our own goals......We can build a world that we desire....and say it is good......and if we change our minds, we can wash it all away and start over again.

Not all of us will desire and want the same things. To your point....There will be a section with people go to read and stat in perpetual silence..... It will be the library mansion.

You can feel free to stay there as many years as you would like and visit mine occasionally.
 
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Just what would those riches and possessions be in heaven? I am curious to know.
What is it that you believe riches and possessions are now? If we were to both answer at the same time, we would both say different things. Likewise, you will have what you want there, and I what I want.

In my father's house, there are many mansions. But it you prefer to feel more holy and live in a tent instead, you can do so, and reap the benefits of my praise and admiration for you, as I look upon you from my top floor mansion window.
 
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