Are The Streets In Heaven Real Gold Or Just Painted With Gold?
Answer: All of heaven is real-none of it is fake. When we get there, it will be the most real, beautiful place we have ever seen.
Will even the gold be real? The Bible says that the streets will be paved with gold.
This may just be a way of saying that it’s a great place to be, like saying “It must be a million degrees out here” to describe a really hot day.
Or it may refer to real gold streets running through town. It’s hard to know exactly what heaven will be like because we really can’t understand it now.
Imagine a frog trying to explain life on land to a tad- pole. All the descriptions would sound bad-you can’t swim, there’s no water, etc.
The frog can’t really tell the tadpole what life on land is like. Only when the tadpole becomes a frog can the tadpole understand.
Only when we get to heaven will we know what it will be like. But one thing is for sure: Nothing will be fake!
Key verse: The 12 gates were made of pearls. Each gate was made from a single pearl! And the main street was pure, clear gold, like glass. (Revelation 21:21)
Related verses: Revelation 21:1-22:21
Related question: What will God’s house be made of? What will God’s house look like in heaven?
Is heaven more beautiful than the most beautiful place on earth? What is heaven made of?
How does God make things out of gold? Does God use glue to make gold stick to the new Jerusalem?
Are the gates in heaven made out of gold?
Does God Have Angels Watching Over Heaven So Demons Can’t Get In?
Answer: God will let no evil at all into heaven-no sin, no hurting, no demons.
Life in heaven will be safe. In fact, heaven is the safest place anywhere-perfectly safe all the time.
No one in heaven is afraid of anything, and no one there ever gets hurt.
Key verse: [God] will swallow up death forever. The Lord God will wipe away all tears.
He will take away all insults and mockery against his land and people forever.
The Lord has spoken! He will surely do it! (Isaiah 25:8)
Related verses: Revelation 7:17; 22:3-5
Related questions: Is heaven a safe place? Will I be safe in heaven?
Does God keep bad stuff out of heaven? Can the devil still hurt you when you’re in heaven?
Will snakes be there? Will we be able to see Satan in heaven?
Note to parents: Every child craves safety and fears danger. A safe place is a happy place, and conversely, a dangerous place isn’t.
In order to be happy, a child needs to feel safe.
A question like this one, therefore, applies a child’s test of happiness to heaven: If it isn’t safe, then it can’t be happy.
You can reassure your child that no place is safer than heaven.
Where Did God Live Before Heaven Was Made?
Answer: God has always lived in heaven because heaven is the place where God is. God has made a place for us where he is-so that is heaven for us. Wherever God is, there is heaven.
Key verse: Our Father in Heaven, we honor your holy name. (Matthew 6:9)
Related verses: Deuteronomy 26:15; 1 Kings 8:30, 39,43,49
Related questions: Where does God live? How does God get down here (to live in us)-does he fly?
How can God be in more than one place at one time? How long did it take to make heaven?
Note to parents: Sometimes a child’s question comes from a faulty assumption about God.
You can use questions like this to explain how God is different from us.