Everyone of us is right now breathing the air of heaven! Here heaven can mean only the atmosphere where the clouds and the wind roam. Birds fly in the midst of heaven - certainly not God's throne in heaven - for we read in Genesis 1:20 of "fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." In blessing Jacob, Isaac said: "God give thee of the dew of heaven" and Moses joyed that the heavens shall drop down dew." See Gen. How often do we find the Psalmist admiring the the work of thy fingers, the moon, and the stars, which thou hast ordained." Psalms 8:3 Genesis 1:15-17.īesides the heaven of the stars, we also find that the atmosphere, the air that surrounds this world, is also called heaven. The word "heaven" also means the expanse of this great universe - the space where we find the sun, moon, stars, comets and planets. Only the high priest - type of Christ as High Priest now, was allowed to enter. Hebrews 8:1-5 explains the original earthly tabernacle under the Old Covenant with its most holy place, or compartment - the type of the throne of God in heaven. Jesus, being the High Priest of God, is the only One who has the right to be in that heaven with the Father. There is the heaven of God's throne, where Jesus is today. The Meanings of Heaven There are several heavens mentioned in the Bible, not just one! And if, as Jesus said, no man, which included Elijah, had ever ascended to heaven, then the heaven into which Elijah was taken was a different heaven! Which one was it? What, then, did Jesus mean when He said in John 3:13: "And no man bath ascended up to Heaven, but he that came down from heaven"? Is this a Bible contradiction, or did Elijah really ascend to the heaven where God's throne is?įrom Jesus' own statement we have the absolute proof that no man has ascended to the heaven of the Father's throne, except Jesus who came down from heaven (John 6:38) and who is at the right hand of the Father in heaven now (Hebrews 8:1). You HAVE been told that Elijah went to heaven.
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