human impulse; rather, men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God” (2 Pet 1:20–21 NET). Under divine empowerment, the prophets created metaphors and similes from their world to let us experience what the world of God and heaven is like—as best they could. But Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and John could do only so much with the words and categories of earthlings. Will we walk streets of gold? We can be sure heavenly existence is something like what they describe, but if we think it is