Friday 15 July 2011

Can you fit in Heaven?

Revelations 21:15-16 reads as follows: "The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia [that is, about 1,400 miles or about 2,200 kilometres] in length, and as wide and high as it is long."
This represents a space of 496,793,080,000,000,000,000 cubic feet; allocating one half of this space for the Throne and the Courts of Heaven, and one half of the balance for streets; this would leave a remainder of 124,198,270,000,000,000,000 cubic feet.
Then divide the remainder by 4,096 [the number of cubic feet in a room 16 feet square] and this will produce 30,321,843,750,000,000 rooms of the size indicated.
Conservatively calculating that the world contains, and has always contained, and always will contain 1,000,000,000 inhabitants, and that there are three generations to each 100 years. This gives the total number of inhabitants each century as 3,000,000,000.
Now, let's assume that the world will last for 1,000 centuries before the return of the Lord [or 100,000 years]. This would give a total of 3,000,000,000,000 inhabitants for this period of time.
We then must make an unlikely assumption that if 100 other worlds of the same size and duration, and containing the same number of inhabitants as Earth were to also find their way to Heaven, there would be more than 100 rooms of the size indicated for each person. Do you think it will be roomy enough for you?

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