HI RHONDA
 
Very interesting post there Rhonda.
And interestingly that post made was on the very same day that I received notice from Amazon that the book by Choo Thomas, entitled "HEAVEN IS SO REAL" has been shipped to me ; as recommended by Virginia Arnke on this board.
 
I have to admit that Heaven, and its sights and sounds, is all that really interests me and keeps me going.
Just seeing everything and everybody, and really being home for good there is top priory to me.
And as a testimony to that, I can say that there has only been one other Christian book that I have bought over the last 20 years that I can recollect, and that one was also based on a trip to Heaven,
So its pretty easy to see where my head is at; and its not stuck in a lot of store bought "Christian" books. <G>
But what I do read is about Heaven, when I come across that material.
The Word and the Holy Spirit is all I need; and when that ceases to be is when I cease to be.
 
Your below statement also interested me:
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THE COLORS WITH WHICH GOD HAS PAINTED HIS KINGDOM
MAKE THE COLORS WE KNOW SEEM SO DIM AND SO PALE

WITH THE EYE OF AN ARTIST, HE HAS CREATED A MASTERPIECE

AND IT'S THERE, WAITING, SHINING, JUST BEYOND THE VEIL.

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Now that part really hit home because of a Night Vision I had many years ago, where I was shown a glimpse of Heaven, and saw those same brilliant colors of Heaven as you speak of; and I also agree that the scenes look just like a painting.
I have told the Vision a couple of times, and won't go into a lot of detail with that again today; except to mention how I was driving through southern Missouri about five years later, and was prompted by the Holy Spirit to pull over and stop as I approached a scenic overlook, and to get out and walk over to have a look, which I proceeded to do.
And as I have told before, I was shocked as I walked up to the viewing place; because right away I recognized the place as being the same place that I was viewing in the Night Vision years earlier.
And I had never been to or thought of this area ever.
 
The nicely kept farm and homestead a couple of hundred feet below me was beautiful and breathtaking for sure, what with the various colors of the lush green pastures and trees, the brown freshly plowed fields, and other fields of golden brown wheat and corn, the clear deep powder blue sky, and the royal blue creek that snaked its way through the fields and pasture; plus the golden yellow Sun and white fluffy clouds floating around everywhere.
 
But as pretty as those colors were that day; I agree with you that they were very dim looking and pale looking compared to the Heavenly colors in the Night Vision, which await us just beyond our earthly physical sight.
There is no comparison, absolutely no comparison between Heaven's colors and Earth's colors; and Heavens colors are really beyond describing; and just saying that they are "brilliant", really isn't doesn't do justice, but that's my limits anyway.
I have likened the two based on what little that I've been shown of Heaven like this; the Earth's colors are just a black and white negative picture typing of the real color of Heaven; its just that simple.
 
And I might add that the Earth's geographics and topography, both above water and under water are also negatives of the real thing in Heaven, which will also make up a part of Heaven, just without the oceans and seas.
For instance, the once lush Garden of Eden, which is now a bleak and barren country called Iraq, is in Heaven like the area that it originally was; and I'm thinking the Garden of Eden was a real humdinger of a place to be in and see.
All I know for sure is that I can't get there too soon, and today isn't too soon.
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(LUKE 21:36)
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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