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Heaven

The dwelling place of God and the present home of believers who have died in Christ — and the realm whose reality will fill the renewed earth at the end.

Heaven is God's throne (Isaiah 66:1) and the abode of the angels. It is presented as the source of God's reign breaking into earth.

For believers, "to be absent from the body" is "to be present with the Lord" — an immediate, conscious enjoyment of God after death.

The Bible does not end in heaven but in a new heavens and new earth, with the heavenly Jerusalem coming down to the renewed earth.

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