Can One Just Knock On Heaven's Door?
by Lucretia Mccloud aka Seah Greenhorn
(poem with copyright)
Daddy,
I don't want to live here anymore
amidst famine, earthquakes, pestilence, violence,
earthwide
so much bloody war.
Yesterday molested;
today
by family deplored
for disloyally revealing
what occurred tragically
to me before.
Please,
may I rap
tap, even lightly on heaven's door?
Will you open if I do implore?
Maybe I'll crawl till my knees are sore.
Will you then open up for me
heaven's door?
*
Daughter,
you too I do adore!
I feel your pain;
your anguish more.
I have a remedy already in store
to help you survive;
your spirit soar.
My Kingdom Come.
Peace to restore.
Around the earth
a Paradise!
For this do seek
I do implore.
With Christ as King
to remove all vice.
No need to try
to sadly die.
No need to rap
on heaven's door.
If I do call and you do answer
it may not be to starry skies.
If dust you are
under death's hateful banner
will you balk
if to earth
you are reprised?
My purpose
has always been
for
obedient mankind
to live in harmony
upon this land.
It's not a plan
to dispose of any
meek and humble
following my commands.
So if you must
sleep for a second
close your eyes
and rest your soul.
I will call your name
in order
to release you from
what masses consider
an unjust
cold.
You will rise
to love of friends
and family you do adore.
A world
cleansed
of which Jesus boldly
an evildoer told
"You will be with me in Paradise."
An opportunity:
Youthful Forever.
Never old.
I don't want to live here anymore
amidst famine, earthquakes, pestilence, violence,
earthwide
so much bloody war.
Yesterday molested;
today
by family deplored
for disloyally revealing
what occurred tragically
to me before.
Please,
may I rap
tap, even lightly on heaven's door?
Will you open if I do implore?
Maybe I'll crawl till my knees are sore.
Will you then open up for me
heaven's door?
*
Daughter,
you too I do adore!
I feel your pain;
your anguish more.
I have a remedy already in store
to help you survive;
your spirit soar.
My Kingdom Come.
Peace to restore.
Around the earth
a Paradise!
For this do seek
I do implore.
With Christ as King
to remove all vice.
No need to try
to sadly die.
No need to rap
on heaven's door.
If I do call and you do answer
it may not be to starry skies.
If dust you are
under death's hateful banner
will you balk
if to earth
you are reprised?
My purpose
has always been
for
obedient mankind
to live in harmony
upon this land.
It's not a plan
to dispose of any
meek and humble
following my commands.
So if you must
sleep for a second
close your eyes
and rest your soul.
I will call your name
in order
to release you from
what masses consider
an unjust
cold.
You will rise
to love of friends
and family you do adore.
A world
cleansed
of which Jesus boldly
an evildoer told
"You will be with me in Paradise."
An opportunity:
Youthful Forever.
Never old.
Were Humans Intended to Go to Heaven?
Since angels were serving God in heaven before the founding of the earth, the first man and woman were evidently not created to populate the heavens. Rather, God said to that first human pair: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” (Genesis 1:28; Acts 17:26) Adam was the first of a new form of earthly life, able to know God and to serve him faithfully. He was to father a race of humans whose home would be the earth. “As regards the heavens, to Jehovah the heavens belong, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.”—Psalm 115:16.
People do not normally want to die; death is not natural for humans. God mentioned death to Adam only as the punishment for disobedience. Had Adam obeyed, he would never have died.—Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12.
Not surprisingly, then, God said nothing to Adam about going to heaven. So the earth was not to be a proving ground where people would be tested to see if they were fit for heaven. Man was created to live forever on earth, and that purpose of God will yet be fulfilled. The Bible promises that “the righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:29) Clearly, humans were not originally meant to go to heaven. Why, then, did Jesus promise heavenly life to his apostles? Did Jesus mean that all good people will go to heaven? ... http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2010082
Since angels were serving God in heaven before the founding of the earth, the first man and woman were evidently not created to populate the heavens. Rather, God said to that first human pair: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” (Genesis 1:28; Acts 17:26) Adam was the first of a new form of earthly life, able to know God and to serve him faithfully. He was to father a race of humans whose home would be the earth. “As regards the heavens, to Jehovah the heavens belong, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.”—Psalm 115:16.
People do not normally want to die; death is not natural for humans. God mentioned death to Adam only as the punishment for disobedience. Had Adam obeyed, he would never have died.—Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12.
Not surprisingly, then, God said nothing to Adam about going to heaven. So the earth was not to be a proving ground where people would be tested to see if they were fit for heaven. Man was created to live forever on earth, and that purpose of God will yet be fulfilled. The Bible promises that “the righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:29) Clearly, humans were not originally meant to go to heaven. Why, then, did Jesus promise heavenly life to his apostles? Did Jesus mean that all good people will go to heaven? ... http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2010082
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