Recently I preached on 2 Peter 3, which speaks of Christians looking forward to the new heaven and the new earth, the home of righteousness. After the refining process of the day of destruction which Peter describes Christians will inhabit not some extra-terrestrial sphere (“heaven”) but a reality in which heaven and earth are brought together. Given this I appreciate Tom Wright’s comments on the significance of 1 Peter 1:4 where Peter speaks of our imperishable, unspoilable and unfading inheritance “kept in heaven for you.” In an address he presented at the Presbyterian Theological College in Sydney some years back, Wright made the point that here Peter regards heaven as akin to a store room. Wright encouraged us to compare Peter’s image with the way beer is kept stored in the fridge. In the same way our inheritance is kept in heaven not so we will leave earth to go to an otherworldly heaven to enjoy it there, but so that it can be brought here.
Posted June 12, 2011
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