WILL YOU EAT AND DRINK IN HEAVEN?
Some Christians believe that human glorified bodies in heaven will not require food and water to sustain life. Any reference to food and drink in heaven means spiritual food and drink. However, there are good reasons to believe that there will be some type of actual food, drink, and fellowship in heaven.
Jesus said people would eat and drink in heaven.
Jesus assured his disciples that in the future they may “eat and drink at my table in my kingdom” (Luke 22:30 ESV). Jesus also taught, “People will come … and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29 NIV).
Jesus ate after he was resurrected.
After Jesus was resurrected, he appeared to his followers in his gloried body and asked them if there was anything to eat. His followers “served Him a piece of broiled fish; and He took it and ate it in front of them” (Luke 24:42-43 NASB). Jesus did not eat with them due to hunger, because he no longer had human needs. He most likely ate with them for two reasons: to prove his bodily resurrection and for fellowship with his disciples.
The kingdom or paradise of God will have a feast.
The angel from heaven showed the apostle John, “a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations” (Revelation 22:1-2 NLT). Jesus also promised John, “I will give fruit from the tree of life in the paradise of God” (Revelation 2:7 NLT). These passages indicate that God will regularly provide fresh, bountiful, and various fruits and foods in heaven.
Billy Graham, The Heaven Answer Book (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012), 64-66.