Hey everyone, this is the Bible Project Podcast, I'm John Collins and this is a dialogue

with Tim Mackie, we're both founders of the Bible Project, which is primarily just YouTube

videos on the internet.

It's been a pleasure making these, this is the third of a three part series conversation

on heaven.

In the last episode, we talked about how heaven was perceived by the Hebrew prophets.

So all of the key passages in the prophets that point to the hope of the world, it's not

of people leaving earth and going up to God's space.

It's the opposite, it's of God's space coming to fully overlap with earth.

We talked briefly about the prophetic hope of resurrection from the dead.

That because God was the creator of the world and because the world has been so messed up

by humans, that God's going to have to recreate and make new his world and not abandon

it.

And so if God is going to do that, that means his love and his commitment to humans

who are earthlings also needs to somehow go beyond the grave and redeem even the grave.

And then we talked about Jesus and how He is introduced to us as a person who connects

God's space with our space.

He's introduced to us by the New Testament authors with language and imagery that's all

drawn from this heaven and temple, Garden of Eden, set of ideas.

And so the whole point is that God's heavenly kingdom is now becoming an earthly reality

in and through Jesus.

Then we talked about how Jesus viewed the temple in his day.

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