The Bible has a lot to say about Heaven (our future home), though we often ignore this in favor of answers for this present world. In the Heaven Project we want to look at the Who (Angels, Living Creatures, Saints gone ahead, and who among us will go) Where (The Heaven of Heavens, The Third Heaven, and The New Jerusalem) When (Death and the Rapture) Why (The need for Heaven) What (What else will we see there? What will we do there?) How (How do we know we have a secured future in Heaven).
The Heaven Project like the other topics on this site is an ongoing study with many updates being added. Please continue to come back and see new updates. Lets explore what the Bible has to say about our future home.
Heaven of heavens:
Deuteronomy 10:14 "Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is." (KJV)
Third Heaven:
2 Corinthians 12:2-4 "I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows. 3 And I know that such a person—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows— 4 was caught up into Paradise and heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat." (NRSV)
Angels:
- Seraphim - meaning "fiery ones" (see: Isaiah 6:1-4)
- Cherubim - meaning "likely an order of angelic beings" (see: Ezekiel 10:14)
- Archangel - meaning "chief angel" (see: 1 Thessalonians 4:16) "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:"
Four Living Creatures (Book of Ezekiel):
In appearance their form was human, but each of them had four faces and four wings. Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.
Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.
As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome. Under the vault their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body. When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty (Shaddai), like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking. (see: Ezekiel 1:5b-28 NIV)
Four Living Creatures (Book of Revelation):
- With Lion
- Ox
- Man
- Flying Eagle
Each living creature had six wings and were covered in eyes, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.” (see: Revelation 4:6-8 NIV)
Lambs Book of Life: (see: Revelation 20, and Luke 10:20)
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