Céu
O céu é a morada eterna de Deus e a esperança final do cristão. A Bíblia descreve o céu como lugar de glória, alegria e comunhão perfeita com o Criador.
A morada de Deus
Na casa de meu Pai há muitas moradas. Os céus declaram a glória de Deus — e um dia habitaremos lá eternamente.
2 in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;
Cidadania celestial
A nossa cidadania está nos céus. Ajuntai tesouros no céu, não na terra. O céu é a pátria do cristão.
20 For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --
19 'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,20 but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,
14 But Jesus said, 'Permit the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'
21 Jesus said to him, 'If you do will to be perfect, go away, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'
35 The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
2 the things above mind you, not the things upon the earth,
Esperança eterna
Seremos arrebatados para encontrar o Senhor nos ares. Ainda não se manifestou o que havemos de ser — mas seremos semelhantes a Ele.
16 because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,17 then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;
2 beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;3 and every one who is having this hope on him, does purify himself, even as he is pure.
18 and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save me -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom is the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.
50 And he led them forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them,51 and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;
9 And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;
12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
7 for nothing did we bring into the world -- it is manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;8 but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;