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God’s Voice from Heaven in Rev. 4-5 describes the Real Heaven: There is only one Real Heaven and Rev. 4-5 describes what it looks like, so none of the other accounts that you read or hear about Heaven, other than the truths of God’s Word, are accurate or inspired.
How should we apply that truth? Here is one of the most powerful and helpful ways to do so. Jesus said that the closer to the end of days we get, the more deceptive Satan’s lies become.
The errors from the Pit are going to infect the earth more widely and deeply than ever before as the end approaches. What is one way that we can protect ourselves from Satan’s lies today? Here is a very simple application:
Beware of Anytime Heaven is Described Differently than How God Described it. Just a quick search through the electronic stacks of the world’s largest bookstore, Amazon, yields many books that testify to out-of-body journeys from earth to Heaven, and back.
Point One: ONLY God’s Word Can Describe the True Heaven. So, beware of whenever Heaven is described differently than how God has described it so clearly in His Word.
How about this book with such a beautiful cover, so beautiful that five million copies were sold in just the first 9 months, and over seven million and climbing. It is still in the top 100 selling books for 55 weeks on the NYT bestsellers listing.
The online encyclopedia of publications listing states: Todd Burpo, a Christian pastor, says that during the months after emergency surgery, Colton began describing events and people that seemed impossible for him to have seen or met. Examples include his miscarried sister, who no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born. Colton also claims that he had personally sat in Jesus’ lap, while the angels sang to him, and that he saw the Virgin Mary standing beside Jesus in Heaven.
What Should We Do When We Hear Claims Like That?