Jesus will one day return to establish His eternal kingdom. Heaven and hell are real eternal places
The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God’s will be done on earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age. God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord. Scripture teaches that Heaven is a real place of eternal blessedness prepared by God for those who have been saved by grace through the shed blood of Christ. Scripture also teaches that Hell is a real place of eternal suffering for those whose names are not written in the book of life. There is no intermediate state in which the unsaved can atone for his own sins.
Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 2:4; 9:6—7; 11:9; Jeremiah 23:5—6; Matthew 3:2; 4:8—10, 23; 12:25—28; 13:1—52; 16:27; 18:8-9; 19:28; 24:27,30,36,44; 25:31—46; 26:29, 64; Mark 1:14—15; 8:1, 38; 9:2, 43—48; 12:31—32; 14:62; 17:20—21; 23:42; Luke 12:40,48; 16:19—31; 17:22—37; 21:27—28; John 3:3; 18:36; 14:1—6; Acts 1:6—7, 11; 17:22—31; Romans 5:17; 8:19; 14:10; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 15; 2 Corinthians 5:1—10; Philippians 3:20—21; Colossians 1:5, 13; 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:14—18; 5:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; 2; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Timothy 4:1, 8; Titus 2:13; Revelation 1:18; 3:11; 7:13—17; 20:1—22:13; 11—15; 21:22—27; Hebrews 9:27-28; 11:10, 16; 12:28; 1 Peter 2:4—10; 4:13; James 5:8; 2 Peter 3:7; 1 John 2:28; 3:2; Jude 14; Revelation 1:6, 9, 18; 3:11; 5:10; 11:15; 20—22