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The heaven of heavens .
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Sep 8, 2009 4:40 am
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Which heaven did they ascend to ?
Question :
it was said about Enoch that he ascended to heaven
( Gen.5:24) ,
and the same was said about Elijah the prophet
( 2 Kgs.2:11).
St. Paul the Apostle also said that he was caught up to the third heaven , whether in the body or out of the body, he did not know
( 2 Co.12:2)
How then did our Lord Jesus Christ say to Nicodemus ,
" No one has ascended into heaven but He who came down from heaven , that is the Son of Man who is in in heaven "
( Jn.3:13) ?
Did not Enoch and Elijah ascended to heaven ?
Also what is the third heaven ? and how many heavens are there in the Bible ?
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The heaven that the Lord descended from and again ascended to is not the same heaven that Enoch and Elijah ascended to ...........
The heavens that the Bible has mentioned are :
1. The heaven of the birds.
2. The heaven of the stars (the sun & moon ), the Firmament.
3. The third heaven or Paradise .
4. The heaven of heavens where the throne of God is...
it is above and beyond all the previously mentioned heavens. It is the heaven about which the Lord said ,
" No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is , the Son of Man who is in heaven."
The third heaven , is Paradise.....
+ That was the heaven that St. Paul ascended to, and said about himself , " Such a one was caught up to the third heaven........he was caught up into paradise "
( 2 Cor.12:2-4)
+ it is the same heaven about which the Lord said to Demas
( the thief on His right :
" You will be with Me in Paradise "
( Lk.23:43)
+ It is the same place to which the Lord relocated the spirits of the righteous people of the Old Testament , who waited on the hope of Salvation and to which the spirits of the righteous ascend now..........till the day of resurrection when all will be moved to the Heavenly Jerusalem ( Rev.21)
The heaven of heavens :
+ It is the heaven where the throne of God is..........
The Psalmist said about it , " The Lord's throne is in heaven "
( Ps. 11:4 , 103:19)
And he said also , " Praise Him , you heavens of heavens "
( Ps.148:4 )
+ This is the heaven about which the Lord said ," No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven , the Son of Man who is in heaven.
( Jn.3:13 ).
It is the heaven to which no human has ever ascended.
+ The Lord commanded us not to swear by heaven , for it is God's throne
( Mt.5:34)
This is what is mentioned in ( isaiah 66:1)
and what St. Stephen also saw during his stoning ;
" I saw the heavens opened and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God "
( Acts 7:55,56)
+ All the heavens that humans have reached , are nothing compared to the heaven of heavens . For this reason , it was said about our Lord :
" Has passed through the heavens "
( Heb.4:14 ) ,
" And has become higher than the heavens "
( Heb.7:26)
+ Solomon the Wise mentioned the heaven of heavens on the day he consecrated the temple.
He said to the Lord in his prayer , " Behold , heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain You "
( 1 Kgs 8:27)
+ The heaven of heavens , no human has ascended to. The Lord alone came down from it and again ascended to it.
Proverbs say :
" Who has ascended into heaven , or descended ?......What is His name , and what is His Son's name , if you know ? "
( Proverbs 30:4 )
Blessings
Sicowin
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