Bible Prophecies and Records of
the First the Second And the Third Heaven
“The
first heaven” was before “the fall of man.”
Now the Lord God had planted a garden
in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the Lord
God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing
to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden flowed
from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the
first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there
is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also
there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the
entire land of Cush. 14 The name of the
third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the
fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put
him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God
commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when
you eat of it you will surely die."
18 The Lord God said, "It is not
good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of
the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought
them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called
each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the
livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam no suitable helper was
found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while
he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with
flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the
man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman,'
for she was taken out of man."
24 For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one
flesh.
25 The man and his wife were both
naked, and they felt no shame.
Gen
2:8-25 NIV
“The
second heaven” is the spiritual realm during the reign of evil upon the earth.
Now the serpent was more crafty than
any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did
God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent,
"We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You
must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you
must not touch it, or you will die.'"
4 "You will not surely die,"
the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it
your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil."
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of
the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for
gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,
who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened,
and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made
coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the
sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day,
and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord
God called to the man, "Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in
the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
11 And he said, "Who told you
that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to
eat from?"
12 The man said, "The woman you
put here with me — she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman,
"What is this you have done?"
The woman said, "The serpent
deceived me, and I ate."
14 So the Lord God said to the
serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all the
livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel."
16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your
pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to
children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
17 To Adam he said, "Because you
listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You
must not eat of it,'
"Cursed is the ground because of
you;
through painful toil you will eat of
it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles
for you,
and you will eat the plants of the
field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because
she would become the mother of all the living.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin
for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, "The man
has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to
reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live
forever." 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work
the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he
placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword
flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Gen
3 NIV
12 For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph
6:12 KJV
“The
third Heaven” is when the Love and Domain of The Father will again prevail over
the
earth through The King.
I know a man in Christ who fourteen
years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out
of the body I do not know — God knows. 3 And I know that this man — whether in
the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up
to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to
tell.
2 Cor.12:1-5 NIV
After this I looked, and there before
me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking
to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must
take place after this." 2 At once I
was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone
sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and
carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne. 4
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were
twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their
heads.
5 From the throne came flashes of
lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were
blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. 6 Also before the throne there was
what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.
In the center, around the throne, were
four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. 7
The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third
had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8 Each of the four
living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under
his wings. Day and night they never stop saying:
"Holy, holy, holy
is the Lord God Almighty,
who was, and is, and is to come."
9 Whenever the living creatures give
glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever
and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne,
and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the
throne and say:
11 "You are worthy, our Lord and
God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being."
Rev
4 NIV
We shall be with The Lord in “the third Heaven”
after we have been raptured by Jesus Christ.
At “The Second Coming”, “the Elect” also will be
‘snatched’ from the earth. Then, the Love and Domain of The Father prevails
over the earth through The King—‘the kingdom of this world becomes the Kingdom
of our GOD and of His CHRIST.’
Maranatha!
The New Jerusalem Is Ready
10 And he carried me away in the
Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its
brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as
crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels
at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of
Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the
south and three on the west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations,
and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 The angel who talked with me had a
measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city
was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with
the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it
is long. 17 He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man's
measurement, which the angel was using. 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the
city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were
decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper,
the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth
sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the
ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth
amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were
twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city
was of pure gold, like transparent glass.
22 I did not see a temple in the city,
because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not
need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light,
and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings
of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates
ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the
nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will
anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are
written in the Lamb's book of life.
Rev
21:10-27 NIV