What will Your Eyes Behold?

Response to comment [from a Christian]: [When you enter the Pearly Gates for the first time and look upon God, what will you see?

I understand there is a lot of various descriptions we have of God from the Bible. For example, he has a back according to Moses; He might be sitting on a horse; several places talk about his face and hands. Sometimes he's huge, sometimes he seems regular sized.

How big do you picture him? Is he a shape shifter? He can hold the universe, yet wrap you alone in his arms after all.

Or is he more of a mist or cloud? Or just a feeling or presence?

Just curious what you picture seeing when you think about it.] "Why do you want to know, since you don't believe? What relevance would that have for anything for you?"

I think he needs his eyeballs turned on (2 Co 4:3, Jn 16:13-16).

Response to comment [from other]: "Based on all the descriptions in the bible that seem so contradictory I can't see how it's real. Obviously others can so I'm curious what I'm missing here.

I'm sure others feel the same. It's hard to believe in something you find impossible. But you don't find it impossible. So how is it not impossible?

Are some of his features (face, etc...) symbolic? Or does he literally look like all the various verses in the Bible describe?"

You're going to see an angry, red face of God when your knees buckle (Ps 7:11, Ro 14:11). We are going to see our loving Father, gracious Savior and Spirit with whom we have known.

"Eze 1:26 a throne. Cf. Ps. 103:19; Rev. 4:2–8. a man. The Godhead appears in the likeness of humanity, though God is a spirit (John 4:24). The Messiah, God incarnate, is the representative of the “fullness of the Godhead” (Col. 2:9), so this can be a prelude to the incarnation of Messiah in His character as Savior and Judge (cf. Rev. 19:11–16)." MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1154). Nashville, TN: Word Pub.
 

"Lk 24:31 their eyes were opened. I.e., by God. They had been sovereignly kept from recognizing Him until this point (cf. v. 16). His resurrection body was glorified, and altered from its previous appearance (see John’s description in Rev. 1:13–16), and this surely explains why even Mary did not recognize Him at first (cf. John 20:14–16). But in this case, God actively intervened to keep them from recognizing Him until it was time for Him to depart. He vanished from their sight. His resurrection body, though real and tangible (John 20:27)—and even capable of ingesting earthly food (vv. 42, 43)—nonetheless possessed certain properties that indicate it was glorified, altered in a mysterious way (cf. 1 Cor. 15:35–54; Phil. 3:21). Christ could appear and disappear bodily, as seen in this text. His body could pass through solid objects—such as the grave clothes (see note on v. 12), or the walls and doors of a closed room (John 20:19, 26). He could apparently travel great distances in a moment, for by the time these disciples returned to Jerusalem, Christ had already appeared to Peter (v. 34). The fact that He ascended into heaven bodily demonstrated that His resurrection body was already fit for heaven. Yet it was His body, the same one that was missing from the tomb, even retaining identifying features such as the nail-wounds (John 20:25–27). He was no ghost or phantom." MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1567). Nashville, TN: Word Pub.