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What age will everyone be in heaven?

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The Bible does not specifically answer this question. Will babies and children who die still be babies and children in heaven? What about elderly people who die—do they remain elderly in heaven? Some have guessed that, at the resurrection, babies are given a body that is “fast-forwarded” to the “ideal age,” and those who die at an old age will have a body that is “re-wound” to the prime of life. If this is what happens, then no one in heaven will appear as a child awaiting development, and no one will appear as a centenarian.

If everyone in heaven appears to be the same age, and that age is “ideal,” then what is that ideal age? Again, the answer is not in the Bible. Some assume it to be around 30 years old. Some guess 33 since that is approximately the age Jesus was when He died. But those guesses are based on life as we currently know it. What about Moses who, at 120 years old, was still full of vim and vigor: “His eyes were not weak nor his strength gone” (Deuteronomy 34:7)? What about Methusaleh, who lived 969 years? Maybe in heaven he will look like he did when he was 500 years old, and none the worse for wear.

We all imagine that heaven will be a place where we will be forever young. What that “youth” will look like is anyone’s guess. It’s probably pointless to assign a numerical value to our apparent “age” in heaven. It’s enough to know that God has a plan to transform us: “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).

Whatever age we appear to be in heaven, we will be made perfect. We will be sinless, and our bodies will be remade flawless. Does that mean we will have no wrinkles in the skin? No age spots? No gray hair? We’ll have to wait and see. We know that all traces of human fallenness will be gone, and we will finally be everything God intended us to be, to the praise of His glory.

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