John Bunyan ended his "The Pilgrim's Progress" with his lead character, Christian, just inside heaven's gates. "The Pilgrim's Future" takes the contemporary Christian from the Rapture to heaven-and then-into a whirlwind of Scriptural experiences as far as the Bible takes us.

Does a believer stay in heaven forever? Christian finds himself back on Earth after only seven years. He experiences a host of events in this world and the new world to come. Veteran Bible scholar Alton Carl Smith traces the steps of Christian on his breathtaking trek through the future, verse-by-verse, in his...