Heaven

Biblical Unitarians typically emphasize an earthly, kingdom-of-God eschatology rather than the mainstream Christian vision of a post-mortem heavenly existence. The faithful dead are not in heaven now; they are asleep, awaiting the resurrection. At Christ's return, the righteous will be raised to immortal life and will inherit the earth — the renewed creation — as co-regents with the risen Christ in the promised kingdom of God.

This earthly kingdom orientation is rooted in the Biblical Unitarian emphasis on the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants. God promised Abraham the land as an everlasting possession; he promised David an eternal dynasty. Christ, as the Son of Abraham and Son of David, will fulfill these promises literally. The kingdom is not a spiritual realm above but a transformed earthly reality in which the resurrected saints reign with Christ.

Many Biblical Unitarians understand the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21–22 as descending to earth — a transformed and glorified earth in which God dwells with his people — rather than as a heavenly realm to which believers ascend at death. This materialist eschatology is consistent with the broader conditionalist and Christadelphian tradition and stands in contrast to the Platonic-influenced eschatology of mainstream Christianity.