We have been looking at the subject of what is heaven like and that includes not only heaven but the eternal state that the Lord will take us to when we leave this life. So, that is the subject. We are looking at different issues wrapped around that. I think that most people are confused about heaven and a lot of people aren’t even very happy about going there. I think back to reading the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This is meant to be a humorous point in the storyline where Miss Watson had been talking to Huck about heaven and he says:
"Miss Watson told me all about Heaven. She said all a body had to do there was to go around all day with a harp and sing, forever. So, I didn’t think much of it. But I never said so. I asked Miss Watson if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go to Heaven, and she said, “Not by a long sight!” I was glad about that because I wanted Tom and me to be together."
I think that although that is humorous and probably was Mark Twain’s view, I don’t know that it is an unusual view for most people. I think a lot of people figure heaven is a bore, they wouldn’t want to go there and if they were there then their friends wouldn’t be there. So, I think that is the attitude of many people. That is certainly not the attitude of Scripture and the writers of Scripture. So, we are looking at the subject on heaven and the eternal state.
The question on the agenda today is: How old will we be in heaven and what will we look like? This is something that comes up quite often. How old will you be in heaven? What would be your appearance in heaven in that regard? What we find out in Scripture is that there is no answer to that. No picture whatsoever of what that looks like. What we do have is 1 Corinthians 15:51, “Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable and this mortal must put on immortality.” So that is kind of the essence of what we have in the scriptures. We are going to be changed. We are not going to look like we do now as such. Apparently, there is connection with that, but exactly what we look like we don’t know. We don’t know how old we will appear . . .
