What is Heaven Like? Ep 136 - Your Prophetic Journey with Shawn Bolz

hey friends today we're gonna be talking about heaven and heaven is such a divine motivator for all of us who are Christians but a lot of times we don't think about it we think about our destiny here on the earth but you don't want to your primary divine motivators as being with Jesus where he is and that heaven is a picture of that being in everlasting life as a picture of that and it's supposed to motivate you now and for this generation of people one of the reasons why it's not as motivated because we have so much luxury around us or we have so much goodness around us that even people who are in some level poverty at least in the Western world still have a measure of seeing through a visual you know movies TV shows commercials what a better life could be like in a lot of times when we see something we attach ourselves to it and we believe it that's part of our life to some degree and so we haven't been as motivated towards heaven being an eternity as other generations the early church was consumed and obsessed with heaven do you think of stephen wright as getting murdered he's the first one to see jesus at the right hand of the Father he's saying I see him there as he was saying I see Jesus as is being martyred the whole church is like we're gonna be with Jesus where he is they're not thinking our friend is dying a bloody death they're thinking Jesus is there and that's our eternal destiny that's where we're gonna be forever because heaven has always been God's intention for us to be with him and connection communion like to be where he was in our original state which is without sickness without flesh without blemish without all these things now picture most people who've seen heaven like near-death experiences or the early records of you know the early Desert Fathers the mystics of the Catholic Church different people in modern times we've had a glimpse of heaven maybe like I said near-death they might have died and gone back there I've said it over 3,000 of those accounts it's a lot of accounts and there's a lot of similarities but there's also a lot of things that would be very different from each other and what I've learned from studies accounts is a lot of more symbolic their the way that heaven was revealed to them so they can understand it as a matter fact when you read John's encounter in the book of Revelation the revelation of all revelations he sees heaven and when he's seeing it he has very somewhat poor language to describe it as like there this thing and there's that thing and there's this one and this one's like fire and this one you know he's describing it was like very limited language but he's doing an awesome job if you've seen have it at all what John's saying is so amazing because heaven has a different system to it there's no Sun because Jesus is so bright that the whole universe revolves around his goodness and his glory that's either narcissistic in your mind going why would he need that no no it's because everything finds its frame and God and when you see heaven it's such a beautiful realm some people described as euphoria was sent like waves out of the throne room where you could feel it and you can feel the grace of the euphoria in your soul and intervals all day long that all of heaven would say holy holy to God because they just couldn't help but feel that bliss or that euphoria other people have described cities and streets that were so beautifully architected that your house or the place you would live there surrounded that the throne room and heavens and that you were caught in constant contact to where God was but you also had this place that was prepared for you that was so special and particularly yours other people describe that they still have roles to play in heaven that they're so work there's still things you're doing there's always an advancing in science and technology and in creativity that the things we love the most here that move us forward are just dress rehearsal for what's there but most of us don't think like in a regular day like mmm heaven I want to I wish I knew what heaven was like we're thinking like I wish I had more of God here I wish I had more of what heaven was like here which is good that's a motivator as well but it's not central as our motivator as much as being with him forever and ever and ever where he is so we need to actually attach our affections to this now I'm gonna tell you an extinct counter I had I had an encounter and you don't have to believe this but this is my encounter I had an encounter and I think it was somewhat parabolic meaning symbolic of what Heaven's like but I ended up seeing and the first thing that happened was I was just appeared in heaven so whether I was in the body or out of the body I don't know but I looked around it was very cloudy and I started to look and I started to see that everything had a current to it like I was underwater all the trees swayed the flowers the what limited things I could see it felt like it was pulsating with life like if you're in a reef but it was substance of air not water and there was a being looking at me from far away but I couldn't really make him out and I said I can't see what do I can't see and then my my voice would project like I can't see I can't say I could hear it outside of me not just inside of me and I could hear laughter around me but I wasn't making fun of his laughter that was like Harmonists it was like beautiful laughter and this being came closer closer to me until it said you can't see because your eyes can't see with full purity for where you're out right now for heaven because you're a human and you're not in your God form yet and so I'm going to touch you and give you the ability to have the virtue to see and I realized this was an angel Lord I'm gonna touch me I couldn't really make him out who's almost forget you're a decent quality but I could see what was prepared for us and you guys all's I could see was the most beautiful elements that were so hard to pull back and describe here I'm like looking at this room just going oh I wish I was back in heaven the sound of heaven everything felt like a beautiful song like if you ever listened to a really epic soundtrack I felt like there was a soundtrack to have it in that moment and everything pulsated and I could feel like it was coming from a central place which was the throne room and I was brought to the throne room and on the way I saw many things that were too hard to understand I mean colors that might be primary that don't exist in our three primary colors I'm not sure I don't know it just was so otherworldly it was so alien but so comfortable when you think of science-fiction used to what do you think mother well the evening of science fiction not of spirituality and so when I'm looking at things there's colors that were so vibrant that jumped off of whatever they were on just was so alive I mean I think James Cameron did well in Avatar to show an otherworldly environment that was beautiful but also very foreign and heaven was very foreign but it felt familiar to my soul or felt familiar to my spirit and as we move towards the throne room we were brought into a space that had no walls or dimensions to it it just was called a throne room and the middle of the throne it felt like God was in the middle but somehow the God who can't occupy our time in space was somehow there and it was more circular than a hierarchical throne room like we've seen maybe the Queen of England has where it's like the throne at the end of the room and everyone's kind of in front of it this felt very circular and the pillars you know the seven pillars around it weren't like little lights they were like the hugest tolls the the Empire States building you know they were they were these huge angelic beings and there was the four living creatures that were positioned around the storm that were bigger than life and they were they were so they weren't like eight foot tall they were like 80 feet tall creatures and it was so wild that I felt so small and yet somehow Jesus managed to share his humanoid form in the middle of the God form and I could see him and it was so overwhelming to see Jesus for who he was because in him I could feel complete in him I felt maybe what Adam and Eve felt in the garden and I remember just thinking I could be in this moment for eternity and this is only the beginning and I thought it was actually passed on I thought I was actually in eternity because it was so profound but it was so foreign but so regular so to speak supernaturally natural so to speak what I could feel there is that there was no need for hunger no need for sleep no need for sorrow no need for anger no need for any of those things it was all contained in the best of what we feel in our emotions is what we're supposed to experience her but it also wasn't just eternal bliss in the sense of were just sitting on go-cart chairs being driven around from seeing the scene it was like a place where there's full activity and the things that you loved hear about Earth those are just small little shadows of what's in heaven and so I love work it's I knew in heaven I had things I'm going to be doing for all eternity that will always you know like I love mysteries to be able to search out the mysterious nature of God that will never be fully seen in our existence because he's so vast we'll only keeps catching glimpses of it revelation of who he is and the angels that were there were so phenomenal they weren't just all humanoid angels that look like men with wings they were like so diverse and so creative and I just thought man I've not really understood heaven I've not really understood what it's like here and I've I've never wanted to be somewhere so much I don't know if it's like a little kid who wants to go to Disneyland their whole life I felt like this is my Disneyland this is so creative I feel like I had full access to my talent I felt like I had full access to my creativity I had full access to my personality I felt completely at home and myself in a way I never had on earth and I felt eager to do things out of that place of connection and fulfillment and I felt eager to serve the greater good of what was going on in heaven really the worship Jesus and really to give him the fullness of his reward and I have always thought of that his word of being those who were saved hoo-wee you know accumulate and tell the other the age but part of his reward for all eternity as us being the fullness of who we are as his counterpart and we are his destiny and we are he is our destiny for all eternity we'll be walking in the fullness of that with him and he's never gonna look away from us and go I wish I had a different destiny he's gonna look at us and say you are her you're the one that I knew were the joy set before me when I came to the cross and we gonna be in our fullness what God dreamed up for an eternity before we ever created that's who we're gonna be and so for some of you who are listening this you're like yes yes yes I mean you're like I've never thought of any of that I've never thought of my life in heaven I've only thought of my life I'm having affected me on the earth but we really need to understand that we're here for a vapor but we're there forever and he wants us to really understand that the times that we feel the winds here in life the times what we feel the most connected maybe in a gift or a town or in a relationship now that's a prototype for what eternity feels like and for whatever lasting feels like and I'm gonna just encourage you that maybe when you got saved you were excited like I didn't save you out of hell but you weren't excited about being necessary saved into heaven and God wants to give you a hunger for heaven and a hunger for eternity because not only will you be there but everybody that you love that accepted Jesus will be there and you will be a community with everyone else and it's the highest form of community will ever experience and so not only do you have the divine motivator of the relatives you you know who've left us behind them because they've gone before us and the lineage you come from but also everything that you've been created for will be in fullness there and we need to realize that this is this is a dress rehearsal this is just a moment in time until we get there and we're supposed to be so in love with Jesus that we can't wait for him to return and we can't wait to be with him where he is both of those things are important and if you don't have those yet just pray form ask God show me a glimpse of heaven study some of the heavenly encounters throughout history study some of the ones in the Bible and just go wow let this be a motivator in my heart that I could've be with you I'm gonna be with you and your fullness for all eternity for everlasting life then I'm gonna experience your everlasting love and I'm an everlasting person so give me a glimpse of being motivated by that now and that will help you to and some of the decisions that you make maybe with a dick they're battling co-dependent relationships or some of the hardships that are here on earth that that's not your permanent story that that's not I'm going to chapter in your book of life that's just something you're experiencing here that will not be your permanent story there and so even looking at yourself and your eternal version of you letting God give you an eyes to see that addictions not part of you you know that that sexual promiscuity is not part of you that these kinds of sins are not part of the true you the to true you that he's created to be with him for always and allowed that eternal you to manifest now allow that version of you that's that's who you're called to be to be your vision for who you are today and that can also help you to be a divine motivator and we need to have these divine motivators to help us in our daily life like if you only live because any times is coming and you're afraid that's not a divine motivator that's a fear motivator but if you're saying part of my life now is that I get to be with God forever in eternity and I want to populate eternity with those I love and I also want to be the version of myself here on earth that reflects the best who I will be forever lasting and that's part of who we are as Christian so I want to encourage you to be the best version of you because you get eyes to see who you're truly supposed to be and allow yourself to be motivated that there's a heaven you get to be a part of for all eternity in Jesus name Amen so I hope you enjoyed this video share it with somebody who needs to know about heaven and have conversations about what heaven is for you and to you with friends there are other spiritual friends and see where that conversation leads you because many of us are gonna realize I don't know that much about it and yet it's the place I'm going to spend most of my time so I'm gonna know more about it and there's a lot of the scripture and there's a lot of encounters you can read about they're gonna help you a whole lot

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 01 2020