{"id":17307,"date":"2025-08-17T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/?p=17307"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:14:33","slug":"how-to-understand-heaven-what-its-really-like-and-your-path-to-get-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/how-to-understand-heaven-what-its-really-like-and-your-path-to-get-there\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Understand Heaven: What It’s Really Like and Your Path to Get There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the sake of anyone whose loved one recently died, I must share highlights of what I believe the Bible clearly teaches about heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I write, it was only a few weeks ago that a once-in-a-hundred-year flood event in Texas claimed the lives of 27 children<\/a> and counselors attending summer camp on the Guadalupe River bank at Camp Mystic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, I am watching family, friends, and acquaintances lose loved ones to other tragedies and diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the gifts of being 70 years old is the benefit of long reflection on what I\u2019ve learned about suffering and the hope for eternal life in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I took some time and reviewed many of what I believe are the best books about heaven as well as bible verses about what the future holds after death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Heaven
Sunrise in the British Virgin Islands\/Steve Blaising\/March 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Several outstanding conclusions come to mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

One final address change<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everybody has one last change of address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Population Reference Bureau recently stated that 117 billion people have lived on Earth.  109 billion have died.  So, about 7% of the world’s historical population is alive today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every one of us, wherever we are living now and no matter how satisfied we are with it, has one more move to make.  We all have one more address change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s no other book in the world that\u2019s as qualified as the Bible to comment on this address change.  That\u2019s why I think the Bible should be in the travel section of every bookstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

40 different biblical authors, spanning about 1500 years, wrote and claimed God\u2019s authority to address matters of life and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those authors, the apostle John, a constant companion and eyewitness to Jesus\u2019 life, death, and resurrection, records this from Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father\u2019s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.\u201d Thomas said to him, \u201cLord, we don\u2019t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.\u201d<\/strong>  John 14:1-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven times, Jesus puts himself in the middle of our troubles by saying \u201cI have,\u201d \u201cI am,\u201d \u201cI,\u201d or \u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s answer to fear<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No matter what\u2019s happening in your circumstances right now, Jesus will be in the middle of it with you if you let him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He essentially says, \u201cI will be here for you now.  I will be here for you in the future.  I will be back for you, and where I am in my Father\u2019s house, you are going to be.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understand that these words are being uttered by a man who\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n