seed, planted in the earth and springing forth into a tree, or a little cake of yeast fermenting a baking of bread?

A remarkably strange lot of comparisons Jesus used, if He had in mind a place where the good were to go after death! He never pretended to convey any such meaning.

Jesus' idea of the kingdom of heaven is a condition to be brought about in the affairs of men, here on the earth. It is to grow from small beginnings, like a mustard seed or the yeast cake. His disciples were sent forth to sow the seed in a definite way, by carrying into the midst of men the signs that evidence the power of Spirit, through which the kingdom of heaven is to be established, right here on this planet. There is no basis for any other view.

Symbolic Heaven

All the theories about a place called "heaven" are founded on John's symbolical description of New Jerusalem, which was pictured, in the imagination, as the fulfillment on earth of the very movement which Jesus inaugurated and which He described as having such small beginnings.

This city which John saw is among men. "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his