The Word of God Is Eternal Life Zoe Ionios

The phrase eternal life has regularly been read in a platonic sense as a life in a non-spacio temporal realm something called eternity. That is not what that phrase meant. Any first century Jew could have told you that heaven is a reverent perifrasis for God and the kingdom of heaven means God's sovereignty breaking in doing what he'd always promised. It goes back via Daniel 7 to Isaiah 52 particularly and then gloriously to all those Psalms which speak of the Lord being king. The fact that salvation is kept in heaven for you means it's safe in god's sphere in god's storehouse against the day when he will bring it out and make that new heaven plus