Will There Be Music and Singing In
Heaven?
I never considered myself much of a musician or even a singer. In
fact, I shy away from it. But in Heaven I believe God will unleash the
creativity for me to perform and even create musical instruments and
also sing. Yes, music and singing will be in Heaven.
John when he was taken up said this about music and singing,
“And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like
the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of
harpists playing on their harps, and they were singing a new song before
the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No
one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed
from the earth.” John implies that there were new sounds (voices). John
couldn’t hit the nail of what sound it was because there is nothing on
earth that sounded like it. He could only pinpoint on what it sounds like
as close as he can describe it as.
John also mentions the blowing of a trumpet. “Now the seven
angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them (Rev. 8:6).
The first angel blew his trumpet (Rev. 8:7), the second angel blew his
trumpet (Rev. 8:8), the third angel blew his trumpet” (Rev. 8:9). And so
on. John also writes about a musical instrument called “harps of God”
(Rev. 15:2). This could be referring to a regular harp that we know of
but regardless there will be musical instruments in Heaven.
Not only there will be singing and the creation of new songs. We
will also sing the songs that generations pass have sung even during the
time of Moses. For John writes, “And they sing the song of Moses, the
servant of God, and the song of the Lamb” (Rev. 15:3).
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Will There Be Music and Singing In
Heaven?
There possibly even will be secular songs in heaven. Just as long if
it doesn’t dishonor Christ. Even they childhood songs you sang when
your mother taught you “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.” If anything the
songs and hymns that we sing today will either be theologically
corrected or have more in depth meaning to them.
The Psalmist writes, “I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I
will sing praise to my God while I have being” (Psalm 104:33). The
Psalmist will have eternal life and will always have being. Singing
praise to God will be a joyful experience to the creature and worship to
the creator. For this is one of our purposes of our creation. The first
question in the Westminster Shorter Catechism asks, “What is the chief
end of man? Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him
forever.”
I suppose each one of us will endure some kind of music ministry.
We will all be some kind of musician before God and richly give thanks
and praises. Our entire creativity will be in full throttle and our
imaginations to worship Him will be endless.
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