A Pure Crown Of Gold
Written by: Delbert Magusara Haim
November 12, 2012
I had a conversation last time with my eighteen year old niece about the reward in heaven that the Bible says. She boasted then and challenged me to beat her crowns thinking she has more reward than me because we have differed understanding in scriptures and she believed she understood prophecy very well. So I asked her and said; what is the type of crown that God will give you? And she answered; a pure golden crown. To think that she was obviously referring to the type of crown used in any pageant, I did ask her again to demonstrate if there will be any pattern available of that crown but she just laugh at me and said; “Pilosopo” in English maybe it is “Philosophic”. In truth, my questions are relevant to her belief and I just followed the way she thinks. Anyway, sometimes truth becomes a joke due to impossible reasoning.
So what really the Bible says about the crown in heaven?
In Old Testament, the first passage that mentioned about crown is written in Genesis chapter forty nine. It talks about the crown of Joseph that was separate from his brothers. Here Jacob his father says that the blessing of Joseph from the heaven is a crown on the head of him. If you read the story of Joseph, the crown that Jacob meant is when Joseph became superior to his family as he saw it in a dream and was fulfilled. It was a crown of glory.
The second one is when Moses commanded by God to make a holy garment for Aaron. Here the crown is a pure plate of gold to be put round about on Aaron’s head. And the pattern described there is with engrave writing wrote upon it.
From here we have two types of Crown; one is a pure blessing from the heaven and the other is a pure gold made in earth.
In the New Testament:
The description of crown appears six times and described as; Incorruptible, crown of righteousness, glory and honor, and life.
What can you conclude now as you read all the passages describing the crown in heaven as righteousness and life and it is not a visible/tangible pure crown of gold? How about if I will ask you this way; how will you interpret this passage of Paul saying; “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 1 Corinthians 3:12”. Are you thinking of visible/tangible foundation and building? I am sorry but that’s not how fool the writer is. The foundation here is Jesus Christ and the types of building you are going to build like gold, silver, and wood are the man’s work.
Therefore, you need to know the difference between heaven and earth for such are earthy are earthy and heavenly are heavenly. You cant bring material things in there as you imagine, neither any fashion you experienced on earth.
November 12, 2012
I had a conversation last time with my eighteen year old niece about the reward in heaven that the Bible says. She boasted then and challenged me to beat her crowns thinking she has more reward than me because we have differed understanding in scriptures and she believed she understood prophecy very well. So I asked her and said; what is the type of crown that God will give you? And she answered; a pure golden crown. To think that she was obviously referring to the type of crown used in any pageant, I did ask her again to demonstrate if there will be any pattern available of that crown but she just laugh at me and said; “Pilosopo” in English maybe it is “Philosophic”. In truth, my questions are relevant to her belief and I just followed the way she thinks. Anyway, sometimes truth becomes a joke due to impossible reasoning.
So what really the Bible says about the crown in heaven?
In Old Testament, the first passage that mentioned about crown is written in Genesis chapter forty nine. It talks about the crown of Joseph that was separate from his brothers. Here Jacob his father says that the blessing of Joseph from the heaven is a crown on the head of him. If you read the story of Joseph, the crown that Jacob meant is when Joseph became superior to his family as he saw it in a dream and was fulfilled. It was a crown of glory.
- Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
The second one is when Moses commanded by God to make a holy garment for Aaron. Here the crown is a pure plate of gold to be put round about on Aaron’s head. And the pattern described there is with engrave writing wrote upon it.
- Exodus 39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
From here we have two types of Crown; one is a pure blessing from the heaven and the other is a pure gold made in earth.
In the New Testament:
The description of crown appears six times and described as; Incorruptible, crown of righteousness, glory and honor, and life.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
- 1Th 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? 20 For ye are our glory and joy.
- 2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
- Hebrews 2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
- Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
- James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
What can you conclude now as you read all the passages describing the crown in heaven as righteousness and life and it is not a visible/tangible pure crown of gold? How about if I will ask you this way; how will you interpret this passage of Paul saying; “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 1 Corinthians 3:12”. Are you thinking of visible/tangible foundation and building? I am sorry but that’s not how fool the writer is. The foundation here is Jesus Christ and the types of building you are going to build like gold, silver, and wood are the man’s work.
- 1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Therefore, you need to know the difference between heaven and earth for such are earthy are earthy and heavenly are heavenly. You cant bring material things in there as you imagine, neither any fashion you experienced on earth.
- 1 Corinthians 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.