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Mostly I care about seeing Jesus face to face along with all of my other dearly departed loved ones,.. but what does it mean that we will get new glorified bodies in Heaven? Will we still look like ourselves? Will we be wearing robes of white just like in the cartoons and movies? Will we recognize each other? What does Heaven look like? What will we do there? I can't help but have so many questions about it.
 
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Mostly I care about seeing Jesus face to face along with all of my other dearly departed loved ones,.. but what does it mean that we will get new glorified bodies in Heaven? Will we still look like ourselves? Will we be wearing robes of white just like in the cartoons and movies? Will we recognize each other? What does Heaven look like? What will we do there? I can't help but have so many questions about it.

1 Corinthians 2:9
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

1 John 3

1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is

and .... Amen
 
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My guess is that all new arrivals in heaven are immediately shuttled off to quarantine in a sort of boot camp where they're indoctrinated with the 100% correct interpretation of the Bible so there'll be no debating with the general population when they get out.

Also, in boot camp, they're schooled in etiquette because people just in from the world can't expect they'll fit right into heaven's peaceful society upon arrival. I'd imagine that those of us who make it to heaven will need some pretty large adjustments made to our manners; most of all, how to keep a genuinely civil tongue in our heads.

"Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt." (Col 4:6)

Grace can be defined as kind, courteous, gentle, patient, lenient, inclined to good will, generous, charitable, altruistic, compassionate, sympathetic, thoughtful, cordial, affable, genial, sociable, cheerful, warm, sensitive, hospitable, considerate, and tactful.

I gather from the language and grammar of Matt 5:13, Mark 9:50, and Luke 14:34 that the primary purpose of salt is to enhance flavor and make otherwise naturally insipid and/or bad-tasting things palatable, viz: salt can be thought of as diplomacy; roughly defined as conversation that makes an effort to maintain peace rather than provoke conflict and/or annoy people and make them uncomfortable.
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One thing is there's 12 gates made from 12 pearls - one pearl per gate "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass." Rev 21:21 kjv "The twelve gates are twelve pearls—each gate made of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, clear as crystal.' TPT
 
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