Yes - according to Les Feldick, heaven will be on earth.
Les teaches that the heaven believers are headed for is on this earth, where Christ will rule and reign from Jerusalem during the coming Kingdom. After the thousand-year reign, the present earth is destroyed by fire and a new heaven and new earth become the eternal home of believers. Rather than a distant ethereal realm, the eternal state is an earthly Kingdom of intense activity.
Revelation 21:1 — Shows the eternal state as a new earth - the most direct biblical answer to whether heaven will be on earth.
Matthew 6:10 — The Lord's Prayer asks for God's kingdom to be realized on earth as it is in heaven.
The Bible describes the eternal state in earthly terms. Revelation 21:1 records that John 'saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.' He also saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, 'coming down from God out of heaven' as a bride adorned for her husband (Revelation 21:2), and Revelation 22:5 promises that the servants of the Lord 'shall reign for ever and ever.' The prayer Jesus taught likewise connects heaven and earth: 'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). Daniel 2:44 speaks of the God of heaven setting up a kingdom on the earth that will stand forever: '...it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.' These passages consistently tie the promised Kingdom and the believer's eternal home to the earth.
Les Feldick is emphatic that the popular idea of heaven as 'someplace way out there' misses what Scripture actually promises. While the throne room of God is presently 'up someplace,' the heaven that believers are going to be intrinsically involved in is going to be on this earth, where Christ will rule and reign from the city of Jerusalem, the city of peace. Les connects the kingdom of heaven announced by John the Baptist with the very same kingdom that Christ will set up on the earth when He returns - a kingdom that is spiritual, physical, and political. He then traces the future in stages: after the thousand-year reign, the present earth is burned up, and a new heaven and a new earth take its place (Revelation 21-22). The whole kingdom economy moves right on into eternity, and the new earth becomes the abode of those who have believed unto eternal life. The new heavens and new earth, Les says, will be a carbon copy of the Kingdom described in Revelation and the Old Testament. Against the fear that heaven might be boring, Les emphasizes that eternity is going to be a viable exercise - a place of intense activity and tremendous production, not a matter of sitting on a cloud and strumming a harp. Whenever someone prays 'Thy kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven,' he observes, they are actually requesting the Kingdom promised since Abraham - a Kingdom over which Christ is King here on the earth.
No, according to Les. He teaches that the heaven believers are headed for is on this earth: 'Christ is going to rule and reign upon the earth from the city of Jerusalem, the city of peace.' People think of heaven as someplace far away, but Les points to a coming earthly Kingdom that also goes right on into eternity.
At the end of the millennial reign the present earth is going to be burned up by fire. In its place comes a new heaven and a new earth, as referenced in Revelation 21-22. The new earth will be the abode of those who have believed unto eternal life, and the kingdom economy continues on into eternity. Les describes the new heavens and new earth as a carbon copy of the Kingdom seen in Revelation and the Old Testament.
Les recalls that when he was young he was almost scared that heaven would be boring - the typical picture of sitting on a cloud and strumming a harp. But he teaches that eternity is going to be a viable exercise and a place of intense activity, albeit without the problems, tribulations, and sorrows of the present life. 'Don't ever look at heaven as someplace that's just going to be... boring and monotonous. It's going to be quite the opposite.'
Les observes that most churchgoers have no concept of what they are saying when they pray, 'Thy kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven.' Each time it is uttered it is a request for the Kingdom promised since Abraham - the Kingdom over which Christ offers Himself as King, and it is going to be here on the earth. 'Heaven is going to come down on earth,' Les says, 'and the only way we can show that of course is to go back into the Book and let it speak.'
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Heaven Will Be on This Earth
Les teaches that while the throne room of God is presently somewhere above, the heaven believers will be involved in is on this earth, where Christ will rule and reign from Jerusalem.
The Kingdom Economy Moves Into Eternity
Les explains that the whole kingdom economy moves right on into a new heaven and new earth, and that eternity will be a place of intense activity rather than boring monotony.
Kingdom of Heaven Equals Kingdom on Earth
Les connects John the Baptist's message that the kingdom of heaven was at hand with the same kingdom Christ will set up on the earth - a kingdom that is spiritual, physical, and political.
The New Earth Is the Believer's Eternal Home
After the present earth is burned up at the end of the millennial reign, the new earth becomes the abode of those who believed unto eternal life, and Christ will be all in all.
Daniel 2 Explained: The Stone Kingdom That Fills the Earth
Well, it's so true, but this kingdom of heaven is going to be the kingdom on earth. It's the same kingdom. Now tonight during the church age we've got to go look at Scripture. Keep your hand in Daniel. Go back with me to Colossians. You remember when John the Baptist began his ministry, what was the crux of his message? The kingdom of heaven is what? At hand.
A Carbon Copy Kingdom on the New Earth
Les teaches that the new heavens and new earth will be a carbon copy of the Kingdom seen in Revelation and the Old Testament, and that believers will spend eternity in a Kingdom on a new earth rather than floating on a cloud.
Heaven Comes Down to Earth
Les uses the Lord's Prayer to show that requesting 'Thy kingdom come' on earth is asking for the Kingdom promised since Abraham - and that heaven is going to come down on earth.
Revelation 21:1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
This is the passage Les points to for the new heaven and new earth that follow the destruction of the present earth.
Revelation 21:2: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Shows the holy city coming down from heaven to the new earth, consistent with Les's teaching that heaven comes down to earth.
Revelation 22:5: And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
In the chapter Les references alongside Revelation 21, the redeemed reign forever on the new earth.
Matthew 6:10: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Les quotes the Lord's Prayer to show that the Kingdom is requested to come to earth.
Daniel 2:44: And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
The Daniel 2 dream of a kingdom set up by God on the earth that will stand forever.
Les Feldick teaches that the heaven believers are going to be intrinsically involved in is on this earth. Christ is going to rule and reign upon the earth from Jerusalem during the coming Kingdom, and after the present earth is destroyed, a new heaven and a new earth become the eternal home of believers.
Les says no. He repeatedly tells his classes that believers are not going to sit on a cloud strumming a harp or shouting hallelujah forever, although worship will certainly be part of it. Eternity will be a place of intense activity on a new earth, without the problems and sorrows of the present life.
Les connects the Lord's Prayer request 'Thy kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven' with the Kingdom promised since Abraham. He also points to Revelation 21, where the new Jerusalem comes down from God out of heaven onto the new earth. The present earth is burned up at the end of the thousand-year reign, and then the new heaven and new earth appear.
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