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Podcast: Restitutio
Episode: 149 Heaven’s for the Birds (Sean Finnegan)
Description: What is heaven? Throughout the bible we find different layers of meaning, including (1) heaven as sky, (2) heaven as God’s throne, and (3) heaven as God’s realm or dimension. Although heaven is a reality, it is not where we go when we die. Rather the bible teaches that the dead are asleep until the resurrection when they inherit the earth, renewed and restored.
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Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald famously sang about heaven:
Heaven, I’m in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness...