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GaryK:

--- Quote from: booker on September 08, 2010, 07:22:54 AM ---Thanks for the replies,however i don't know why my post was deleted so I'll post it again,

What does these scriptures mean

John 14:2-3
In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.

And

Revelation 21-22
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life,...

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At least for the 2nd part, Rev 21-22, re-read here:

THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS
http://bible-truths.com/lake8.html

3/4 way down the page.   Should help.

Kat:

Hi Booker,

John 14:2  In My Father's house (3614) are many mansions (3438); if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

G3614 house - properly residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively); by implication a family (especially domestics): - home, house (-hold).

G3438 mansions - a staying, that is, residence (the act or the place): - abode, mansion.

John 14:23  Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (3438) with him.

2Cor 5:1  For we know that if our earthly house (3614) of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house (3614) not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
v. 2  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house (3613) which is from heaven:
v. 3  If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

G3613 house - a residence (literally or figuratively): - habitation, house.

What I'm trying to show is all these words in the Scripture "house," "home," "mansions" all mean the same thing, it's talking about our body that holds the spirit of life. You can see in 2 Cor. Paul calls our physical body an "earthly house."

Now God's house/abode is the Kingdom of God/Heaven, a spiritual realm. In John 14:23 Jesus said He and the Father would "make Our home with him," this is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that a chosen few receive in this lifetime.

So in John 14:2 when Jesus said "I go to prepare a place for you," that was actually to be when the Holy Spirit/Christ comes to dwell in and preparing the Elect... the process of making them into the image of Christ.

John 14:26  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Those few chosen are prepared in this lifetime and will be in the first resurrection and given a new spiritual body at that time. That new spiritual abode/house will be so much greater then this physical body that Christ likens it to a mansion.


Rev 22:1  And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

This "water of life" is the precious, pure truth, that will be taught to all the people of the earth during Christ's rule.

Isa 11:9  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
       For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD
       As the waters cover the sea.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Shawn Fainn:
Excellent post Kat.

It's amazing when the truth of the scriptures comes, that they all seem to be consolidated and easier to understand.

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