No More Harps and Hallelujahs!
1. What are we going to do through all eternity? (Theological term: glorification) Play harps? Sing Hallelujah? I hope not. I’m not musical and I don’t think a one word praise chorus would sustain me forever! I’m being facetious, of course, but my question is a serious one. Do we have any idea from scripture what you and I will do throughout the ages of the ages? We do indeed! In the last verse of the visions of the book of Revelation and the first two chapters of Genesis. In these chapters, the only ones untouched by sin, we see God’s eternal planned fulfilled (Rev.21-22) and in their light that plan in embryo in the creation stories (Gen.1-2). In Rev.22:5, the last verse of Revelation’s visions, the people of God are said to “reign” throughout the eternal ages. When we look back to the creation stories in Genesis we can see that being made in God’s image to have dominion over creation as Go...