Book Review of:
Heaven
By: Randy Alcorn
Published by: Tyndale
What is on your “bucket list?” Are you hoping to hike the Grand Canyon or to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef? One of the important bucket list items to me was to visit the Holy Land. But there is no need to race all over the planet seeing all the natural wonders. Those natural wonders will still be there when we get to the New Heavens and the New Earth talked about in the book of Revelation.
I had always assumed that the New Earth would be a whole new creation. Randy Alcorn’s book helped me to see that the New Earth is the old earth - redeemed. Just like you and I are a “new creation in Christ Jesus” (2Cor.5:17) when He redeemed us; so too, the earth will be a “new creation” when Christ redeems it (Rom.8:21). The “New Earth” will have all the good things that God created in the beginning. But it will not have any of the bad things from the fall of humanity. The New Earth will be redeemed from the curse and become a glorious, “new” earth.
This and many other misconceptions that I had about Heaven have been clarified by Alcorn’s definitive book. He cross references the entire Bible to find every detail available about Heaven. And then he uses his sanctified imagination to bring it alive for the reader. Of course, he is very clear about what is scriptural and what is imagination.
Honestly, I wish I would have read this book years ago. Save yourself that regret . .. order it today!