Heavenly Crossword Puzzle

1. Jesus told the thief who hung next to Him on the cross that he would be with Christ that day in ____.
3. On the last day, the dead in Christ will rise and those who remain alive will be ____ up to meet Jesus.
4. As believers, we will be with the Lord for ____.
6. Paul said that for him, to live is Christ and to die is ____.
11. Paul tells us to ____ one another with the words he uses to describe the return of Christ.
12. Believers in Christ go to Heaven when they ____ or when Christ returns -- whichever comes first.
13. Where does the Old Testament say that Abraham and Jacob went when they died (another word for the grave or the place of the dead)?
14. A great ____ separated the places for the righteous and the unrighteous when they died in the OT.
17. The righteous dead from the OT went to "Abraham's ____."
18. Jesus told his disciples all about Heaven to ____ their troubled hearts.
20. The time between a person's bodily death and their bodily resurrection is called the ____ state.

2. The ____ of Christ is considered "the last day" or "the day of Christ" in the New Testament.
5. Jesus promised that He would ____ up the believers' bodies on the last day.
7. After Christ's return, we will inhabit the new ____ as Christ's redeemed people!
8. Heaven is a literal place where God ____.
9. Blue flowers represent ____ and an ache for the eternal.
10. Jesus said that in His ____ ____ are many dwelling places/rooms/mansions.
15. Death is not the end of our stories. Death is simply the ____ that separates us and transitions us into that forever story of our life.
16. For believers, to be absent from the body is to be at ____ with the Lord.
19. In 2 Corinthians, Paul calls the place where God dwells "the ____ heaven."