[b]I am going to prepare a place for you.[/b][i](John MacDuff, "The Words of Jesus")[/i]"I am going to prepare a place for you. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with Me where I am." John 14:2-3What a wondrous thought!Jesus is now busied in Heaven in His people'sbehalf! He can find no abode in all His widedominions, befitting as a permanent dwellingfor His ransomed ones.He says, "I will make a new heavens anda new earth. I will found a special kingdom.I will rear eternal mansions expressly forthose I have redeemed with my blood!"Orphaned pilgrims, dry your tears! Soon thesighs of a groaning and burdened creation willbe heard no more. Soon He will come again, toreceive those who followed Him in His cross, tobe everlasting partakers with Him in His crown!
Jesus = "The Divine Bricklayer"?Can I ask a question - Jesus spoke these words at the last supper - after that where did He go? and when did He come back?Do these words not speak of Jesus going to the cross and death and then coming back to them in the resurrection?Through what Jesus accomplished for us on the cross we can now have open access to the Father. Praise God that we do not have to wait until some future time after death until we can access the Father's dwelling, but as verse 23 says - "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." The word for abode in verse 23 and dwelling in verse 2 is the same.Praise be that in Christ God "has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ" Do not fail to claim your inheritance now! Now we can dwell with the Father. What a glorious gospel and glorious Saviour.