Don't trash your heavenly mansion

Keep your heart from idols

Our Messiah speaks of heaven as the Father's boarding house.

A boarding house is a private house with accommodations for guests who, if they are provided with room and board, have common meals which they take at a large table. My mother would cook and I would find myself taking meals with strangers who lived in our home. But my mother had a very hard childhood as an abused little girl who was basically homeless, so, when she became a believer, she was not content to run a boarding house just for proper Baptist college students. No, she would go out into the poor parts of town and, if there was to be found an unwed teenage mother, if there was to be found a "little person" dwarf pariah, if there was to be found a smelly, poverty-stricken child at school that I would not want to sit next to in my class,then, lo and behold, that person would soon be sitting at our table! Not just the proper Baptist boarders upstairs but all the so-called town "riff-raff" would soon be sitting at our table! This is a picture of heaven! This is why I am a street preacher today! What do street preachers do? They go out into the highways and byways and compel people to come into the Father's eternal boarding house! Later, when I was homeless myself and found myself tramping all over Israel and the world performing The Rabbi From Tarsus, I often found my heart yearning for a boarding house home. This is heaven. In my Father's House are many [boarding house] rooms. This is an incentive to keep our hearts from idols. HaBen and HaAv want to come and make their monh (same word as mansion in Jn 14:2) in each of us (Yn 14:23). We must go and prepare our monh, removing all the idols, even as Moshiach, not an idol, has gone to prepare our monh.