02/22/2026 – Day 316 – “Your Present Afterlife”
FYI: This is Day 315 of Jonathan Cahn’s devotional – “The Book of Mysteries.” Every day involves a two way discussion between a “teacher” and a “student’ in the faith.
“We were sitting on the top of a high mountain, a vantage ointment from which we could see a multitude of other high mountain. peaks far into the distance, into the increasingly orange horizon of the sunset.
“How do you enter heaven?” he asked.
“You get saved,” I replied. “You become born again.”
“Yes,” said the teacher, “but assuming you are saved, how do you actually enter into heaven?”
“You die,” I said. “You die and go to heaven.”
“So that’s the only way?” he asked. “You have to die to get into heaven?”
“No? It’s not the only way?”
“It is the only way,” he said, “But there’s more to it. In the New Testament the kingdom of heaven is spoken of as that which is beyond and not yet, and yet also as that which is here and now and in our midst.”
“But heaven is the afterlife,” I said.”
“Heaven is the afterlife,” he said. “It has to be. One must leave the old world to enter the new, and that which is of flesh, to enter that which is of the Spirit. One must leave the imperfect of the earthly to enter the perfect of the heavenly. So heaven must be the afterlife. But…”
“But there’s a but?”
“For the child of God, the heavenly life cannot be limited to the afterlife. It is too great to be contained in that which is not yet and not here. For the child of God, heaven has to be known and lived in this life as well.”
“The how do you enter it?”
“You have to die to get to heaven.”
“But I thought you just said…”
“You have to die to go to heaven,” he said again. “So the key is to die. But the secret is, don ‘t wait until you die in order to die. If you do, you’ll never know the heavenly life until this life is over. But there’s a way to die now even while you live. In Messiah, you have that power … to depart from this realm, from the old and the earthly, even now. Die to your life, and you will enter the new. Die to the flesh, and you’ll live in the Spirit. Die to the earthly, and you’ll enter the heavenly. Learn the secret of living in your afterlife now. It’s as simple as dying and going to heaven.”
The Mission: Today, live as if your life was over. Then enter your afterlife, beyond the flesh and the earthly, to live in the Spirit, in the heavenly.”
Romans: 6:4-11; 8: 10-14; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3: 1-9.
“How to Enter Your Afterlife Now.”
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Soli Deo Gloria!