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High wide view into a quiet empty ancient resting room with a prepared plain couch and ordinary lit lamp, soft daylight, no person, divine figure or heaven architecture.
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2 Corinthians 5:8

Longing to Be With the Lord

A Lasting Dwelling and the Appeal to Reconciliation · 2 Corinthians 5

Story guide: Visual essay: The prepared resting place suggests the desire to be at home; it is not a depiction of heaven or death.

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8So we are confident and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

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