Many Christian churches today teach that the earth is the springboard to heaven. Hence, we measure our Christian conduct, behavior and actions on earth, whether Godly or otherwise, to see how it can prepare us to get into heaven. That is the predominant mindset in many Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic churches today.

However, I disagree with this view. Why? This view was held by the Greek Christian churches during and after the Dark Ages period. The Greeks were masters in philosophy and had many gods and were deeply steeped in their own religious mythologies.

Overtime, they interpreted the scriptures to suit their environmental contexts and culture and discarded the original interpretation of scriptures which was being propagated by the Hebrew christians. The Hebrews believe that heaven was the springboard to the earth contrary to what the Greeks believe. They believed that God’s plans and purposes for humanity must happen on the earth and it happens to His own vessels and human agencies on earth; these vessels have a meaningful relationship with their God.

They believe God is and must be expressed in the PRESENT and they did not wait for a future time of expression/manifestation. They believed that each heavens created by God, is a season, epoch or eion that defines a new movement of God on the earth. Each of these eions of time is set into motion and is activated on earth by a man of God. This man of God becomes the originator or pioneer of a new move of God and he is given the stewardship of grace clothed with a unique divine message for God’s people on earth.

In other words, the Hebrews believe that the goal is not to escape matter and go to heaven in a spiritual form; it is rather that God created matter in order to manifest Himself on this level, in this physical plane. Heaven is thus coming to earth in what is called the kingdom of heaven–that is, the kingdom FROM heaven.