This is John at the Bible Project. Tim and I wrote a book. It's called, When Heaven

Meets Earth, a biblical study on the theme of heaven in the Bible. It's set up like a

workbook, there's 12 sessions that you could go through by yourself or with others. One

of the first videos we made was a video on the biblical theme of heaven and earth. It's

the story about how God created heaven and earth united, how they were driven apart,

and how God plans to bring them back together again, and our role in that entire story.

The video does a really good job of showing an overview of this theme, but we couldn't

really get into a lot of the juice. And so what this workbook allows us to do is dig

in. There's 12 sessions. It goes to the entire story arc of the Bible from the beginning

to the end. There's essays by Tim and I. There are geek out sections that allow you to get

really geeky if you want to. There's dig deeper sections which allow you to open up the

Bible, read scripture, and engage with it yourself. And then there's discussion questions

if you want to do this with a group. You can find it at thebibelproject.com slash heaven

book. You can download it for free and you can pre-order a physical copy. Okay, so since

that workbook was on the brain, this podcast episode is us talking about heaven and earth

uniting, but me asking some questions around some things that Jesus says in the Gospel

of John that to me doesn't feel like heaven and earth uniting, it feels like us teleporting

away to heaven when we die. And if it's surprising you that you don't fly off to heaven when

you die, consider this. Never once in the Bible is the phrase go to heaven used to talk

about what happens after you die not even once. So what happens when you die? Why does Jesus

talk about going away and preparing the place for us in the Gospel of John? We're going

to talk about that in this episode. Here we go.

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