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Okay, this is a long question. I'll just summarize it with the 
title. How will we see the Trinity in 
heaven? I understand that God is spirit, that he's invisible. 
that we will see his face and we will behold the Lamb. But 
will we see the three persons of the Trinity in heaven, or 
will we only see Jesus and he will reveal to us the Father 
and the Spirit in some way?" And then the person, kind of 
like the next day, sent a follow-up. I posed a question about our 
interaction with the Trinity in eternity a few days ago. I 
would like to specify my question. What kind of sensible interaction 
might we have with the Trinity in eternity to come and the new 
heavens and new earth? Will it be visible or will we 
simply be aware, cognitively or by faith, of the Father and 
the Spirit without any visible manifestations of them? Jesus' 
words of whoever has seen me has seen the Father come to mind. What little I know about this 
tough question. I feel like the person answered 
it as they were wrestling through it. It does sound that way. Yeah, 
it really does. Well, especially when you consider 
the fact that God is spirit. He doesn't stop being God when 
we get to heaven, and we don't stop being man when we get to 
heaven. And so, you know, there's, you know, we're never going to 
be able to exhaust the infinite beauty and infinite majesty of 
God. And we're never going to be able 
to comprehend his essence. But I think, you know, first 
John three does speak about seeing Jesus as he is, and we shall 
be like him. And I think as the questioner 
says, you know, we've seen Jesus, we've seen the father, and reality, 
everything we do is Trinitarian. Even when we pray, it's Trinitarian. 
We see this in, in, you know, Galatians chapter four, God sent 
forth his son. and then born of a woman, born 
under the law, but then also we have the spirit of adoption 
who's been poured out in our hearts and we cry out to God. So we cry out to the Father through 
the Son and in the Spirit. And certainly there are a lot 
of things I don't think I understand about the beatific vision, the 
blessed vision. I'd like to read more on that 
to be sure, but certainly seeing Jesus as he is, is clear in 1 
John 3. Certainly the fact that God's 
not gonna change because he cannot change is clear and the fact 
that we will still be humans is very clear as well but we 
will certainly not be weighed down by sin, weighed down by 
the weariness of this world and we'll get to praise our God world 
without end. and seeing the lamb, it's not 
like we're seeing a sheep or a physical lamb, right? This 
is Jesus, the man in his flesh or human nature. See the holes 
in his hands, et cetera. But he's healed and whole and 
glorified, yeah. And that's the new heaven, the 
new earth. It's a physical place for physical people, right? So 
there's continuity, but there's continuity, like it's sin is 
gone, it's restored creation, yeah.