When I was little boy, I used to say "up
to Heaven." When I got older, someone reminded me that if I died in China and
went up I would be going an opposite direction from a man who died in America
and went up. Since the world is round and China is on the other side of the
world that seems reasonable. But I have discovered from the Bible that Heaven is
a fixed location in the sides of the North beyond the highest star.
Here is an interesting passage: "Promotion cometh neither from the
east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the
judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another" (Psalms 75:6,7).
Isn't that strange that the word "north" is left out? Why? Because
promotion does come from the North. It comes from God. "He putteth down one, and
setteth up another."
In Isaiah 14:12-17 we have the story of Lucifer, who became Satan.
He said, "I will exalt my throne above God's throne." He said, "I will ascend
above the heights of the clouds." He said, "I will do into the sides of the
north."
Heaven, then, is a fixed location in the sides of the North.
According to Isaiah 14, it is beyond the highest star.
Here in Isaiah 14 Satan said, "I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God." If he is talking about literal stars,
he is talking about going out beyond what we call the second heaven.
There are three heavens. Paul said in 2nd Corinthians 12:2,4, "I
knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot
tell; or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to
the third heaven...How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard
unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter."
If there is a third Heaven, there is a second and first heaven. The
first heaven is the atmospheric heavens where the birds fly. Says 2nd Peter
3:10, "...the heavens shall pass away with a great noise.' He is speaking of the
atmospheric heavens. Psalm 19:1 says, "The heavens declare the glory of God. "
This is talking about the second heaven--the starry or planetary heavens. And
the third heaven, the paradise of God, where Christian's go and where Jesus is,
is somewhere out beyond the last star, beyond the second or starry system.
I am told that the farthest star man has been able to locate
through his most powerful telescopes is 500 million light years away. Light
ravels a little more than 186,000 miles per second. That means if you could go
186,000 miles per second, it would take 500 million years to reach the last star
that man has been able to locate, and Heaven is somewhere out beyond the highest
star, in the sided of the North, according to Isaiah 14.
So when I said, "Up to Heaven," as a little boy, I was right,
though I did not understand it. Any time you go North you are going up.
Everybody says "up North" and "down South." And the North Pole is the top of the
earth. So Heaven is up.
Heaven is real. It is a fixed location in the sides of the North,
beyond the highest star.
End of Chapter Seven
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