In the Bible no one ever talked about going to heaven before Paul, in Romans, about 4,000 years after the creation, and after most of the events of the Bible were history!

Doesn’t everybody want to go to heaven when they die? And didn’t everybody always want to go to heaven?

Turns out no. Nobody did! (Not even Jesus, (at least not exclusively and forever)! This time we begin by examining one more example of the “goings in and comings out” in the Bible which leads us to the interesting fact that before Paul nobody wanted to go to heaven.

We start with the temple God will build in Ezekiel 43 and trace back where the Bible says God’s house was, what and where “the house of the Lord” is, and where God has always intended to live. Whether people lived there with him turns out to be an open question, starting with Moses, but then not with David, and then open again with Solomon. And the open or closed status of that question matters if you want to understand the whole story!

We then examine the prophetic scriptures that inspire even the modern day belief that the “good” get eternal life and the bad get eternal punishment. But we discover that in the Old Testament, the good never thought they were going to heaven.

We then examine the evidence in the gospels and see that neither Jesus nor the apostles, nor the disciples thought they were going to heaven, (even if they endured till the end).

Then we get to Paul’s epistles where we discover for the first time in then Bible the idea that anyone is going to heaven. And then we study out how that is and what we should be doing while we’re still here on the earth.

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