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Where is heaven?
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In response to the text in Matthew 5:5 – Blessed are the meek; they shall inherit the earth, I found this very beautiful explanation in Strong’s Concordance.
1093 gḗ – correctly, the physical earth; (figuratively) the “arena” we live in, located in the space and time God uses to prepare us for eternity. (1093 /gḗ) is the temporary, practice place where we live out our moral preferences “in the flesh.”
That is, as free moral persons (according to 2 Corinthians 5:1-10).
In this way, God makes an eternal record of everything was we do on earth.
By faith, every scene of life becomes equally relevant to eternity.
(compare: Mt 13:31,32,17:20; cf. also Lk 16:10; Lk 17:6; 2 Pet 1:1).
The Old Testament Hebrew word 776 /asitía (“earth”), also refers to the physical earth as “God’s arena” = “the physical theater” in which our eternal destiny is played out].
The “moral preferences” spoken of here is the preference expressed in agape – from God to us and from us to God. We may live out that “preferential love” in “the moral arena earth” in the flesh, to later become eternally partakers of “the abode of God” cf. John 14:2.
Our final “heaven” is the renewed earth. Heaven on Earth.