Are you saying we should not desire to make heaven?

It’s good to know that God is the creator of the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1, Heb. 1:10) and they were created at the same time and by the same word (2 Pet. 3:5, Col. 1: 16).

Heaven is a spiritual plane and it’s the home of angels while the earth is both a spiritual (invisible) and physical plane (visible) and it’s the home of man.

Man was created with a form of everlasting life; so, the issue of the spirit and soul of man leaving the body and going to heaven or hell only surfaced because man disobeyed God.

Man started dying physically because sin and death entered into the world (Rom. 5:12, Jam. 2:26). Heaven is the home of angels but it’s a temporary abode meant to accommodate man for a specific period of time.

Throughout scriptures we see that the promise of God to man is not a place but His Life (Tit. 1:2, 1 John 2:25, John 3:16).

There’s no place in the bible where heaven is painted as the hope of a believer (John 14:6, Matt. 7: 13-14). In 1 Peter 1:4 we find three (3) characteristics of the inheritance of the saint in Light: incorruptible, undefiled and unfading; and Heaven bears none of these characteristics.

Heaven is not incorruptible because it will be burnt with everlasting fire (2 Pet. 3:10, Matt. 25:35), heaven is not undefiled because sin started from there (Ezek. 28:12-18, Heb. 9:23) and it’s not unfading because its already becoming old (Heb. 1:10, Psa. 102:26).

So, it’s clear that both the heavens and the earth don’t fit into the description of the promise of God for man, it’s not also the house that God desires to eternally dwell in (Isa. 66:1-2, Rev. 21:1-3). It’s also good to know that as believers, we are called to interact with the new heavens in Christ, not when we die but in the days of our flesh (Eph. 1:3, 2 Pet. 3:13-14).

These spiritual blessings are revelations of the Life of Christ which we are meant to understand and inherit as a lifestyle (Matt. 16:16-17, Eph. 4:20, Col. 2:6); this is what it means to mind heavenly things and have our conversation in heaven (John 3:12, Phil. 3:20).

There’s nothing wrong in desiring to go to heaven (the home of angels), but we should go beyond there by pressing to acquire or enter the heavenly places in Christ in the days of our flesh.

There is an urgent vacancy for the men of the future.