Who will we see in Heaven?

[paulschafer]

A few years ago, a friend of mine ask our bible class a interesting question.

When we get to heaven, who will we see, Jesus, the Father or the Holy Spirit? If they are one God, his point is we will only see Jesus, not the Father or Holy Spirit? So if you die today or tonight, who would you see first or only?

Another question, when Jesus prayed in the Gospels, where was the Father and Holy Spirit located?

These above questions came from my friend Micah, he grew up in Oneness Pentecostal and left that denomination to a more conservative evangelical church a few years ago, but these questions still lingered in his mind and mine too.

[wildboar]

At the incarnation, the Son took on not only a human body but a human soul as well. When Jesus prayed, he prayed to the Triune God. As Jesus walked this earth in His human nature he was eternally in the bosom of the Father in regards to His divine nature.

Notice what Jesus says here:

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

Jesus while walking the earth spoke of the Son as being in Heaven.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

In regards to His divine nature, the Son's will was always the same as the Father's. But in regards to His human nature it was not, but He was always submissive which is why He could say "not my will but thine be done."

When we get to heaven we shall behold the Triune God in Christ.

Sola Gratia,
WildBoar