The New Heaven and the New Earth (Part 3)

Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 2:48 a.m.

b'About 50 years ago, a worship service holding 400,000 people took place in Bethel, New York. Author Brett McCracken described what was known as Woodstock, the mass gathering celebrating music, drugs, sex, and \\u201cpeace\\u201d defining the counterculture 1960s, as \\u201cthe festal concert gathering as a spiritual fixture in the liturgies of our secular age.\\u201d One attendee proclaimed: \\u201cIt was indescribable. The feeling that came over me of warmth and Oh my God, there are this many people in the world that think like I think? It was like meeting your brothers and sisters.\\u201d Another attendee shouted, \\u201cWe must be in heaven, man!\\u201d\\nWhen that many people gather and there is so-called love and peace with people, the first inclination is this must be heaven. A gathering of people \\u201cperfectly\\u201d expressing love. I was at a restaurant yesterday where they played a bunch of 80s songs. Bryan Adams \\u201cHeaven\\u201d blared through the speakers. Pretty much every secular song about heaven is always about meeting the dream of your life, falling in love, and then of course, that\\u2019s heaven. Even Christians fall into this type of thinking. But is this heaven, meeting random people to get high on drugs and demonstrating for peace OR marrying the person of your dreams?\\nWe are going to seek the answer by looking at Future Marriage, Past Marriage, and Present Marriage.\\nText: Matthew 22:23-33Speaker: Sam ShinDate: August 4, 2019'