HEAVEN/EARTH
Indeed, it is worth noting that most uses of the words ‘heaven’ or ‘heavenly’ in the New Testament bear little relation to the meanings we have so unscripturally attached to them. For us, heaven is an unearthly, humanly irrelevant condition in which bed-sheeted, paper-winged spirits sit on clouds and play tinkly music into their pipe-cleaner halos and drop off from boredom . . . But in Scripture, it is a city with boys and girls playing in the streets; it is buildings put up by a Department of Public Works that uses amethysts for cinder blocks and pearls as big as the Ritz for gates; and indoors, it is a dinner party to end all dinner parties at the marriage supper of the Lamb. It is, in short, earth wedded, not earth jilted. It is the world as the irremovable apple of God’s eyes. Robert Capon, The Parables of the Kingdom, (Zondervan, Grand Rapids), pages 91, 92.
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