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A Tour of Heaven
I Kings
“Behold, the heaven
and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee...” —I Kings “…And hear thou in
heaven thy dwelling place...”-I Kings
There are
three
different
heavens discussed in the Bible, First, there is
the
atmosphere just above the earth…air, clouds, etc.
Second, there is
the stellar
heaven containing the stars and planets.
Finally, we have what the Bible calls “the
third heaven.”
The third Heaven is where God’s throne is located.
It is the place called What is it like?
Well, we don’t know all the
answers, but we know that Heaven is always referred to as “up.”
We know there’s no stairway leading there.
We can only imagine some of the answers…we should take some time
and just imagine…but the Bible tells us quite a bit as well: There are
windows
in Heaven. The windows are
always spoken of as being open to pour out things from God.
Sometimes blessings are poured out (see Mal. Concerning the door in
Heaven, John tells of his experience in Revelation.
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:
and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet
talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things
which must be hereafter” (Rev. 4:1). The first thing he saw
was a throne.
This is God’s throne.
He was sitting on His throne.
It looked like a
jasper, sardine stone, or an emerald.
It is hard for the finite mind to grasp infinite things.
We cannot imagine the beauty and radiance of God.
A diamond is like dirt compared to the splendors of our God. The psalmist cried
out, “The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in
heaven...” (Ps. 11:4).
Behind the throne was
a
sparkling
rainbow. The
twenty-four elders, clothed with glistening, white garments and pure
gold crowns on their heads, were seated upon the twenty-four seats.
Thunder and lightnings were proceeding out from the throne and
voices could be heard. There
were seven lamps
of fire burning before the throne.
The Tree of Life was there.
This same tree was in the Garden of Eden for Adam and Eve.
After the fall of man, an angel was posted at the gate with a
revolving, flaming sword, to keep them away from this tree lest they
should eat of it and live forever in their fallen state.
On this tree grew twelve different kinds of fruit each month.
The leaves were for the healing of the nations.
The beautiful As John continued to
look, he saw
twelve gates of pearl; three on the north, three on the south,
three on the east and three on the west.
Twelve angels stood at these twelve gates.
But Jesus
will be what makes it heaven for me!
Part of what will make it heaven is what won’t be there… There will be no
tears, no death, [death is a comma to the Christian, not a period.] no
sorrow, no crying, no pain, NO SNOW! ...no night, no more curse, no
hunger, no thirst, no bills, or hundreds of other things that have
plagued us here. The great
host of angels [100 million in the choir!], or messengers, will be busy
serving God and carrying out every desire.
When Jesus was born in Stephen had been
privileged to look on this scene, too.
As he was dying, after being stoned, he spoke of seeing Jesus
standing on the right hand of God.
Before he could tell much of what he saw, God called him home. Paul the apostle got a
glimpse of this on the Enoch and Elijah were
taken up into Heaven. They
saw the scene, but never returned to explain about it.
Moses got a little glimpse of just the backside of the outer aura
of God, and his face shone with brilliance. It is certainly going
to be an amazing thing to go there and see for ourselves.
We are told, “For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens” (II Cor. 5:1). God looks down from
Heaven and sees. He also
hears, as do others there, I believe.
“The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
see if there were any that did understand, and seek God” (Ps. 14:2).
We are reminded, “If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their
sin, and will heal their land” (II Chron. 7:14). IN Hebrews 12:1, we
are cautioned, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight . . . .”
The writer could be indicating that there are great multitudes of
spectators in Heaven watching us in this life.
They are called a “great cloud of witnesses.” We can try to imagine
these things, and artists can attempt to do justice, but… I Cor. 2:9
But as it is
written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
We can only imagine!
Heaven will involve:
I.
REVIEW
The first thing on the
schedule, after getting there, is the judgment seat.
Paul explains in II Cor. 5:10, “For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of
II. RECORDS
Heaven is a place of
records. The Lamb’s Book of
Life is there, and other record books at the judgment seat and at the
great white throne judgment.
God has a great recording system to preserve every idle word, thought or deed.
The sounds of earth broadcasts can be heard in space, and
scientists are working on a machine now that will use radioactive
material to bring voices out of rocks and trees, that were recorded
there hundreds of years ago by sound wave impressions.
And we can be sure that God has things recorded. We are told to rejoice
because of this. “But rather
rejoice, because your names are written in heaven” (Luke You can die in cancer
and go to heaven...you can die in liver trouble and go to heaven, or die
from or die in pancreas trouble as my g’father did...you can die in
kidney trouble like some have and go to heaven...you can die in sugar
diabetes, poverty, loneliness, rags, poor house…you can die in a car
accident and still go to heaven. But you can’t die in sin and go to
heaven. John tells us in Rev.
20:15, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
into the lake of fire”. There's 2 places with
no hope. One is hell, all
hope is lost there. The
other is heaven...there's no need for hope there!
III. REWARDS
Christ is my
inheritance, and heaven is the safe deposit box where all my inheritance
is kept! Heaven is a place of
rewards. Jesus, speaking in
the Sermon on the Mount, said in Matt.
IV. REJOICING
The devil is the
opposite of God in every way.
Satan gives us the best first and saves the worst for last.
God saves the best for last! There will be eternal
joy in Heaven. The greatest
joy that comes to Heaven is because of souls coming to
V.
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