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PART1: Different Types Of
Heavens
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Heaven And Earth.
2.The First
Heavens Will Pass Away
3.The Third
Heaven: The Home Of God (Part 1)
Three Types Of
Heavens
The first Heaven is the immediate
atmosphere just above the earth. According to science, this atmosphere is
divided into a lower layer known as troposphere (this include lower clouds
and extend up to 17km above the earth), a middle layer known as Stratosphere (this include higher clouds
and where weather are formed and is between 20 – 50 km above the earth), and
three upper layers known as Mesophere (between
50 – 120 km above the earth), Thermosphere
(between 120 km – 600km above the earth) and Exosphere which is where space outside the earth begins.
The second Heaven is the regions within space
outside planet earth where heavenly bodies exists. This heavenly bodies includes the Solar system and Galaxies.
The third is the heaven which is
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The First Heavens Will Pass Away
The first heaven will pass away
just as the current earth is being burnt up (Read Revelation 20 verse 11, Revelation 21 verse 1, II
Peter 3 verse 10). The heaven that will pass away in this passage of the Bible
is not the third Heaven where God dwells (God doesn’t change in Hebrews 13 verse 8). Rather, this is
the same as the atmospheric cloud which John (a disciple of Jesus Christ) saw in a vision departing like a scroll
when it rolled together (Read Revelation
6 verse 14).
The first heaven and earth passes away because
Man’s sins and action for 6,000 years is short of God’s purpose for creating
the heavens and earth in the beginning of time.
For example, after Adam and Eve sinned, curses were released onto the
earth (Gen 3 verse 17). These curses
affected the fruitfulness of the earth (i.e
after the curses, Man
had to work hard to receive increase of the earth. This should have
automatically yielded increase if sin had not being committed in the first place).
Also some changes must have occurred in the atmosphere around the earth which
is now probably responsible for reduction of Man’s life span from about 1,000
years old to just under 120 years (Read Genesis
chapter 5 and Genesis 6 verse 3). Also changes in the atmosphere are
currently being blamed for increase in the ozone layer, Greenhouse effect and
rapid melting of Antarctica ice.
The above examples
shows a necessity for the current earth and heaven to pass away.
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