UFOs, alien beings, invisible kingdoms, time vacation, the afterlife, superior compared to evil adventures, giants, dragons, sea monsters and much more make up the raw materials of numerous science-fiction stories and Hollywood blockbuster movies. But they are just fiction.

For authentic, otherworldly phenomena, absolutely nothing beats the Bible. This is significantly genuine if you get God’s Phrase significantly when it will come to everyday living, dying and what arrives afterward. A person case in point …

Before I became a Christian, I utilized to picture that when I died, I would arrive at Heaven’s gate all by itself, nervously seeking admission with my fingers crossed. I would desperately hope that my “good deeds” would outweigh my bad ones, offering me a “passing” grade and opening the pearly gates to acknowledge still another wretched creature like me by the skin of his tooth.

I could not have been extra mistaken.

Reality is, IF you are a authentic born-once more believer, you are positionally previously in Heaven, even ahead of you die! And get this: you arrived there spiritually additional than 2,000 years ago, accompanied by each individual other believer who at any time lived throughout the ages.

This happens in the very same instant, no matter of when we have lived in time … no 1 arriving ahead of us and none coming soon after us — in the similar “eternal moment.” Audio preposterous?

Listed here is what the Bible suggests in Ephesians 2:3-7:

“But God, currently being prosperous in mercy, mainly because of His wonderful adore with which He loved us, even when we had been lifeless in our wrongdoings, created us alive alongside one another with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and lifted us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly destinations in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to arrive He could show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.”

Take note the earlier tenses of the phrases above: “we had been useless,” “made us alive,” “raised us up with Him,” “seated us with Him …”

When did all this…