This week we are honored to have Randy Alcorn with us as a special guest and lined up

our several of the most common questions about heaven we have.

Randy has written a large book on heaven.

He's an expert in the topic and no he has not been there and back.

So let's get this week underway with Randy who joins us over the phone from his home.

At presumer, Randy, much of the fully revealed new earth, what we often refer to as heaven,

will be completely unrecognizable to us.

The new earth will be recreated, but there will be some continuity too.

So how much of it will be familiar to us, for example, will the Himalayan mountains

remain or will every visible feature of this creation be completely changed?

Well, the short answer would be I think the Himalayan mountains could very easily remain

and I would not expect every visible feature of creation to be changed.

And the reason for that would be that I think our proper understanding of the new earth has to be

based on some kind of model and what would that model be?

Well, it's the new earth in the same way that in the resurrection we will have new bodies.

So resurrected bodies, resurrected earth.

So what do we know about our bodies?

Well, we know that our bodies, Christ's bodies, the prototype for ours in his resurrection.

We know that he was recognizable as such.

His features were the same.

The great majority of times that he recorded appearances that he's seen by the disciples,

they know immediately who he is.

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