It’s Okay to Wonder: Is heaven boring? - msn.com
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The Bible says, "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him." - Isaiah 64:4
Since the Bible tells us that no one will know what heaven is like, the best we can do is speculate. Personally, when our Lord Jesus says, "Behold, I make all things new (Revelation 21:5), I think that means Jesus is not only going to make a brand-new earth, but also a brand-new universe! And I'm guessing that each star, each planet in that brand-new universe will be like the Garden of Eden before the fall. And maybe we'll be traveling throughout that new universe with a blink of an eye. That's just guessing. But whatever heaven is like, I'm sure it won't be boring!
Maybe a more profitable question to ask is this: Will hell be boring? No, I don't think hell will be boring. It may be exciting - in the worst possible way! But hell won't be boring. Here is how Jonathan Edwards describes hell:
"It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God for one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your souls, and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverances, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all; and you will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions and millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this Almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that it is all but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite." - From the sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Recommended sermon: Welcome to Hell! by Dr. David P Murray
The text for this sermon is Isaiah 14:9-11: "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee."
