Heaven & Hell....Reality Check.

First off Heaven is not for everybody but those God called elected and has chosen and whom have answered God's call with a yes Lord. Not a physical yes, but a spiritual yes. Heaven is specifically set apart for the set apart. Heaven is not another physical plane of existence but it is spiritual in nature. Everything in Heaven reflects Jesus, the Light of Heaven which is why the streets are clear Gold and the walls are of precious stone to reflect as much Light (Jesus)as possible. The rest? Spiritual as well for your bodies no longer exist in the natural state but in a transfigured state to further reflect Jesus and His Light. heaven is not about your rewards physically, but about your rewards spiritually. You get rewarded with a crown related to your works which you cast at the feet of God because those works were not done for man, or simply for some blessing of God, but God Himself. You get rewarded with no sickness, no pain and no death because you are back in the original state of creation. A people for God's glory dwelling in God's glory. Everything in Heaven is spiritual and God-related in it's nature. No. Heaven is not for you because it wasn't earned by what you wanted but by what God wanted. Heaven is God's place of existence which is why those who have honored God in Earth are allowed the privilege and honor of being with God of seeing God face to face. Because you honored Him when you couldn't see Him but He could see you, He chooses to give you the privilege of seeing His face. Conversely Hell is a place of spiritual darkness given over to Lucifer or Satan to rule over the souls which followed darkness all the days of their lives or who had chosen to forsake the light for the darkness of man's empty philosophy. Hell is a place of eternal torment, but your physical body does not suffer at all. Your spirit your soul suffers because it is made aware of God's love it is made aware of His absence, His mercy, His love, His compassion. But the soul is made acutely aware of the hatred Satan always has had for it simply because of the fact that God made it, handcrafted it and cherished it while God had it in the fires crafting it after Himself. Satan can still see that even in the darkness and so Satan hates all who come thru Hell's gates. Hell is not a place of physical fire but your soul longs to be free of the oppression and hatred of it. Weeping and gnashing of teeth ring a bell? Slavery produced those same effects on slaves. so think about it, your soul is shackled to its sin and your soul feels the pain of death every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every instant of eternity. But it can't die. This is just a snippet of the reality of Heaven and Hell....there is not time enough or words enough to adequately describe their reality versus what people have been fed. (tm)