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Heaven
In plain words
Where God is fully present, and the home He is preparing for His people for ever.
Heaven is not about sitting on clouds with harps. In the Bible it is first of all where God is, fully and openly. Jesus told His friends He was going to prepare a place for them and would come back to take them to be with Him (John 14:2-3). The best part of heaven is not the place. It is being with Him.
Go further Growing
The Bible says that when a believer dies, they go to be with Christ, which is far better (Philippians 1:23). But the final hope is bigger: a new heaven and a new earth, where God lives with His people and wipes away every tear, and death is gone (Revelation 21:3-4). The Bible gives few details, and wisely so. What it gives is enough to hope and to live well now.
Go deeper Going deeper
Hebrew shamayim and Greek ouranos mean both sky and the place of God's presence. The Bible moves from God's dwelling above, to God dwelling with Israel in the temple, to God dwelling among all His people in the new creation. Paul says to be away from the body is to be at home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). Christians differ on details of the time between death and resurrection, so avoid speculation.
My verses
In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”