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  ================== 11/23/2020    Revelation 3:12  The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. -  The passage above raises an image of the terrible fate of Bootstrap Bill in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise—he died and was transmogrified and embedded into the walls of a ghost ship.  To be honest, I find it difficult to talk about heaven itself in sermons or funerals or simple discussions with either believers or those who are confused about religion but are honestly exploring the issue of eternal life.  As a young man, I was grateful for my salvation and for the presence of God in my life, but was never really motivated by the thought of being issued a harp, crown, white robe, ne...