The Last, Best Hope for Humanity, Jesus and His Administration

Nowhere in the Old Testament Scriptures does it speak of people personally going to the heavens where God resides. The stories of Enoch and Elijah ascending into the heavens where the person of God resides have been falsely represented.

The word heaven, in the Old and New Testament Scriptures, refers to everything from the ground up. The scriptures refer to birds as flying in the heavens, the breathable atmosphere around the earth. (Revelation 7:19) (Genesis 1:7,8) The sun, the moon, and the stars are referred to as being in the heavens, space outside the earth's atmosphere. (Genesis 1:16,17) (Isaiah 13:10)

The first mention of a person ascending to the heaven where God resides is in the New Testament Scriptures, and that individual was Jesus Christ. He himself made that point clear when he said, "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven." (John 3:13) Heaven was where Jesus was from, and heaven was where he returned. "No man hath ascended up to heaven" would include Enoch and Elijah. God ended Enoch's life to spare him from his enemies persecuting him. Elijah was taken up into the breathable atmosphere around the earth to be transported to a new assignment in a different location on earth.

While Jesus was here on earth, the selection of individuals began who would receive the call to go to heaven. The apostles were the first of those to receive this call, when Jesus said, "Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." (Luke 22:28-30) God does the choosing. (Matthew 20:23)

The concept is not hard to understand and makes perfect sense. God would select individuals from among humanity because they lived the human experience, they understand what it is to be human, and they would be compassionate rulers just like Jesus, who also lived as a human. They would be a part of the kingdom in heaven, the kingdom Jesus preached about to his followers and that they advocated to the rest of humanity.

These chosen individuals are selected to go to heaven for the same reason Americans vote to send representatives to Washington DC, to govern. Just as the capitol of the United States is Washington DC, heaven is where the capitol of God's Kingdom is located. Jesus is God's chosen king of that kingdom. Jesus and his administration of selected humans will rule over the faithful citizens on earth. The total number of those selected to be a part of Jesus's administration in heaven would be 144,000. This heavenly government is the last, best hope for humanity.

The purpose and plan of the heavenly government is to crush and put an end to the corrupt world under the authority of Satan the Devil and bring humanity back into a righteous standing with God and restore the lost paradise God started in the beginning to an earth wide Garden of Eden.

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