4.7 The Place Of Reward: Heaven Or Earth?

Apart from the above reasons, any who still feel that heaven rather than earth will be the location of God’s Kingdom, i.e. the promised reward by grace, need to also explain away the following points.

§ The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ asks for God’s Kingdom to come (i.e. praying for the return of Christ), whereby God’s desires will be done on earth as they are now done in heaven (Mt. 6:10). We are therefore praying for God’s Kingdom to come on the earth. It is a tragedy that thousands of people thoughtlessly pray these words each day whilst still believing that God’s Kingdom is now already fully established in heaven, and that the earth will be destroyed.

§ “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (Mt. 5:5) - not ‘...for their souls shall go to heaven’. This is allud ...