The Thousand Year Cafe

Grandpa has gone to heaven.  He is sitting in a restaurant.  An angel is serving him, and he asks, “What is going on around here?”

“When I first got here, I spoke to two people who were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. They said something about being here in heaven only a few minutes.  Then, I talked with a man who had died during a railroad strike in 1893. He said, ‘I’ve enjoyed the past few hours I have been here.’ Finally, I spoke to some people who had died during the year 1023 in the Byzantine Empire.  They were not very familiar with things, because they had only been in heaven for a day or so.  What do they mean?”

The angel replied, “Haven’t you ever heard of the scripture that says, ‘To the Lord, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day?’”*

“Yes, but I’ve never thought about it.”  Then Grandpa pauses.  He asks the angel, “My friends and my family – they know the Lord Jesus like me - when will they get here?”

The angel smiles, and replies, “We’d better get some more plates set out on this table, because they’ll be here any minute.”

Randy A. Stahla

* II Peter 3:8

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