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GYC Southeast

Worship As It Is in Heaven

Eurydice Osterman

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this day that you've given to us and thank you for safe travel here.

Now as we go through this seminar, I pray that you will help everything to be clearly understood and help me to convey this message in a way that it can be understood.

Be with each of the hearers, in Jesus's name I pray, amen.

Okay, we're gonna move right on because I think I didn't know I was supposed to start and so I started.

But anyway, we're talking about worship as it is in heaven.

And I, this is the first of a series of lectures that I do.

And I thought, well let's start at the very beginning.

Usually when I come for just a one-time event, I start at the very last 1, which kind of incorporates all of them.

But I thought, okay, let's focus and start at the beginning.

And we're going to start with worship as it is in heaven.

Now, what made me develop this particular topic was the fact that we're always talking about music and worship here on earth.

But just as the Lord gave Moses a guide of a pattern of the sanctuary that is in heaven, then the Bible has snapshots of what music and worship are like in heaven as well.

So I thought, well let's see what that is.

Now we know that there is a lot of discussion and controversy today about music and worship.

But if we're all going to get to heaven, the Bible always talks about every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

So that means then the issues that we have about worship are not going to exist in heaven.

So Let's take a look at what goes on in heaven that we should try to emulate on earth.

Now also 1 thing to consider is the fact that when God confused the languages at the Tower of Babel, it was not his original intention to do that.

But since he did that, and now we have every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, God is going to save every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

And each of those entities has its own culture, its own sonority, and all of that.

So we are going to just look at what it's like in heaven and see what we can do on earth.

1 of the prayers of Jesus was, Father, I pray that they may be 1 as You and I are 1, so to speak, I'm paraphrasing, and we're going to go ahead.

Now let's take a look at heaven and see what happens in heaven.

Well, when we get to heaven, we're all going to be of 1 mind, body, and spirit, even though we are from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

When we were forming as a church and Ellen White had visions, 1 of the things that she said was that there are no words in our language that can even describe what she saw and heard in heaven.

Another scripture that stuck in my mind that really struck me was in Malachi, the last chapter of Malachi, the last verse, which says that when God burns up this earth, everything is going to be burned to stubble.

Which means then that when we are resurrected and we are changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye, Everything about us is going to be new.

So whatever great music we have on earth at this time will cease to exist because it is tainted by sin and humanity.

When we get to heaven, we will fall in that vein and we will be able to praise the Lord.

But let's, before we get there Now, this is something else that was said that Ellen White saw and envisioned.

I have been shown the order, the perfect order of heaven and have been enraptured as I listened to the perfect music there.

Now, when we look into the sanctuary, we're going to see some of the things that are up there in heaven.

This is the snapshot that the Bible has given to us.

And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices.

And there were 7 lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the 7 spirits of God.

Now There was a rainbow around the throne in sight like unto an emerald.

So these are descriptions of what God and heaven and the throne are like.

And around about the throne were 4 and 20 elders sitting clothed in white raiment and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

And before the throne was the sea of glass likened to crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were 4 beasts.

So you got these 4 elders and the 4 beasts and each of them had 6 wings about them.

And I beheld and heard the voice of many angels around the throne.

So these are the entities that are praising God in heaven, worshiping him day and night.

Now, let's look at these 3 attributes of music in heaven that the Bible points out to us.

There is praise and there is lots of music as Ellen White witnessed.

The angel hosts prostrate themselves before him while the glad shout fills all the courts of heaven.

So everybody in a sense, genuflects when it comes to, when they come into the presence of God.

Now let's see about the praise because today that word praise has many connotations.

But let's see what the praise is like in heaven.

The elders say, thou art worthy to receive glory and honor.

And these angels say, Amen, blessings and glory.

This is a point that I really want to stress because the praise according to the Bible is verbal.

It is not physical gyrations and whatever.

It's not jumping up and down, waving hands.

We have already seen that when they come into the presence of God, they genuflect, they are reverent.

And when they utter anything, They are verbal expressions.

Now let's take another look at the music of heaven.

According to spirit of prophecy, there is music there and song, such music and song as no mortal ear has heard or mind conceived.

And we know that verse that says, I have not seen nor ear heard.

So we can't even begin to fathom and the richest and greatest and most elevated music of this earth cannot compare to what is there.

When Ellen White came out of her vision and was forced to come back into the reality of this world, The greatest music, she said, sounded discordant to her.

So we know that it is something that we have never seen, nor can we imagine.

The Bible in all of its renderings of heaven, in this snapshot, talks about 3 instruments.

The 4 beasts and the elders sang a new song.

The voice of harpers harping with their harps.

Now, trumpets were used in heaven to make announcements.

Music in heaven is governed by the same natural laws that God created that operate here on this earth.

So When we talk about music in 1 of my other seminars, we actually go into the science of music and talk about that, but that's not a part of this.

But I just wanted to call this to your attention, that music is governed by laws, scientific laws, laws that are immutable, they cannot be changed, they can't by personal opinion or disagreement or whatever.

They are just as sure as the law of gravity.

You cannot change the laws that pertain to music, okay?

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