What is the Gospel to the poor? They do not have to be poor anymore! There is an anointing that will go right into poor people that will begin to lift them and break the yoke of poverty over them. This anointing works anywhere in the world. It is not just a “North American Gospel.” It is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. When the poor are taught to give, God will bless them, and the spirits of poverty and lack will be driven out of their lives as well as out of entire regions.

Roberts Liardon tells us that healing the brokenhearted does not mean joining them in a pity-party. Healing comes when things are boldly dealt with, even if it hurts. If an arm or leg needs stitches, it will hurt in the beginning but be a blessing in the long run. Jesus was compassionate but bold in dealing with the source of the problem. He cast out spirits of self-pity, grief and sorrow.

What is preaching deliverance to captives? The Lord showed me a vision once of people in a cage. All of them had weird smiles. The Lord said, “Go up there and look at them. This is what many of my churches are like.”

So I went and saw there also were people walking by outside the cage. I looked more closely and realized that the people in the cage thought they were free and thought the people outside were in captivity! They were deceived into thinking that captivity was freedom!

Roberts Liardon tells us that preaching deliverance to captives is boldly speaking the truth in love and breaking the bondage of deception. That takes strength and anointing. The Church needs this kind of preaching, because so many are captives of sickness, captives of the flesh, captives of soulish theology, captives of the past, captives of bitterness, and so forth. Many are deceived and ignorant of the enemy’s devices. The anointing blasts through those deceptions and brings the liberty of the truth. (John 8;32.)

Roberts Liardon tells us that there is a real, literal Heaven. Fifty-three of the sixty-six books of the Bible mention it directly, and even in those thirteen which do not, the principles and concepts found there are in agreement with the idea of an actual place called Heaven.

Heaven is first of all the place where God lives. Yet, even it is not large enough to contain Him, as King Solomon knew when he built the first temple for God here on earth.

But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain You. How much less this temple I have built! (1 Kings 8:27 NIV).

Things on earth are shadows of what is found in Heaven. Moses was given the details of the tabernacle, or “tent of meeting,” that God wanted him to build in the wilderness. This tabernacle was the forerunner of the temple Solomon built later. Moses was told that it was patterned on the heavenly tabernacle, which God had built.

Roberts Liardon tells us that as Rebecca started for home, she met Frank who asked her if she would like to visit the city by the lake. Rebecca replied that she had long wanted to go there but had waited until Frank thought she was ready. He replied that she had learned Heaven’s ways so quickly that he could now take her anywhere with him. He told her that her desire to learn of Heaven out of love for God had won her the praise of Jesus Himself. Frank told her that he felt that Jesus would soon entrust her with a mission in Heaven.

Rebecca was so overjoyed to hear this that she could barely speak. She and Frank walked silently back to the edge of the lake and entered a boat, which took them to the farthest shore. The boat took them up to a marble terrace that was the entrance to the city. They passed up a hill and found themselves on a broad street that led to the center of the city. The streets were wide and paved with marble and precious stones. Although there was a multitude of people going about their business, there was no debris or even any dust.

Rebecca observed buildings very much like business offices and colleges, schools, book and music stores, publishing houses, factories, art galleries, libraries, lecture halls, and auditoriums. However, she saw no churches, and this puzzled her until she remembered that in Heaven, all were united in the worship of the Father and the Son; there were no separate denominations there. She wished that this same atmosphere of united worship to Him could dominate earth. How much jealousy and rivalry would be eliminated!

She saw no homes in the middle of the city, but only in the suburbs. Each home had a large garden, filled with trees and flowers. The whole city was covered with gardens to the point that it was more like an enormous park sprinkled with houses. Before she and Frank left, Rebecca noticed an immense open pavilion where the seraph choir had just sung. She and Frank determined to return again to hear that choir and its heavenly music.

Roberts Liardon tells us that Frank and Rebecca came out into open country and walked through meadows and plains and then entered a great forest. Even though the trees were close together in this dense wood, the glow of the heavenly light filled it.

Emerging from the forest into a great plain, they became aware of an enormous temple with a dome, pillars, and walls made of solid pearl. A white radiance shown through the windows of this temple. Rebecca sank to her knees and began to worship Him in stillness with her whole heart. Even in Heaven, “time” turned to nothing as she knelt.

Roberts Liardon tells us that Frank gently lifted her to her feet and whispered for her to come. In silence, she followed him up a flight of pearl steps to the door of the temple. They entered the temple in silence, and there she observed the immense dome, help up by three great pillars of gold. The walls, floors, and the platform on the eastern side were made of pearl. A gold railing was set around the platform on three sides so that it could not be reached from the main part of the temple. In the middle of the platform there was an immense altar of gold, supported by seraphs made of gold with their wings outstretched. Beneath the altar, a fountain danced into a pearl basin. Rebecca knew that this fountain was the source of the river of life.