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HEAVEN(S)

in relation to God:

♦ His creation of:

• Genesis 1:1; 2:4; Exodus 20:11; 31:17; 2 Kings 19:15; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalms 33:6; 115:15; Isaiah 37:16; Acts 14:15; 2 Peter 3:5; Revelation 10:6; 14:7

♦ His possession of:

• Genesis 14:19; Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalms 89:11

His action from

♦ executes judgment on earth

• Genesis 19:24; 2 Kings 1:10; Revelation 16:21; 20:9 (cf. Luke 9:54)

♦ summoned certain people

• Genesis 21:17; 22:11

♦ provided bread

• Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15

♦ spoke to people

• Exodus 20:22; Nehemiah 9:13; Daniel 4:31; Luke 3:22; John 12:28; Acts 11:9 (cf. 10:10-16)

♦ blesses His people

• Deuteronomy 26:15

♦ sent fire to consume a sacrifice

• 1 Chronicles 21:26

♦ hears His peoples' prayers

• Nehemiah 9:27-28 (cf. 2 Chronicles 6:23)

♦ allowed fire to destroy human and animal life

• Job 1:16

♦ observes people

• Psalms 14:2; Isaiah 63:1; Lamentations 3:50

♦ saves people

• Psalms 57:3

♦ gives gifts to men

• John 3:27 (cf. Hebrews 6:4; James 1:17)

♦ reveals His wrath

• Romans 1:18

♦ warns people

• Hebrews 12:25

♦ His habitation in heaven

• Deuteronomy 26:15; 1 Kings 8:30; 2 Chronicles 30:27; Job 22:12; Psalms 2:4; Ecclesiastes 5:2; Isaiah 63:15; Matthew 5:48; Ephesians 6:9

♦ His immensity and omnipresence

• 1 Kings 8:27; Psalms 139:8; Jeremiah 23:24

His titles

♦ "God of heaven"

• 2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:2; Nehemiah 1:4; Psalms 136:26; Daniel 2:18; Jonah 1:9; Revelation 11:13; 16:11 (cf. Joshua 2:11)

♦ "King of heaven"

• Daniel 4:37

♦ "Lord of heaven"

• Daniel 5:23; Matthew 11:25; Luke 10:21; Acts 17:24

His revelation from heaven

♦ of His glory

• Psalms 19:1

♦ of His righteousness

• Psalms 50:6 (cf. Job 15:15)

♦ His throne in heaven

• Psalms 103:19; Isaiah 66:1

in relation to Christ:

♦ He proclaimed the kingdom of heaven:

• Matthew 4:17

♦ He acknowledged the Father in heaven:

• Matthew 5:16

♦ He forbade oaths by heaven:

• Matthew 5:34

♦ He taught parables about the kingdom of heaven:

• Matthew 13:11

♦ He prayed toward heaven:

• Matthew 14:19; John 17:1

♦ He possesses all authority in heaven:

• Matthew 28:18

♦ He ascended into heaven:

• Mark 16:19; Acts 1:11 (cf. Ephesians 4:10)

♦ His Sonship was confirmed from heaven:

• Luke 3:21-22; 2 Peter 1:17-18

♦ He reveals heavenly things:

• John 3:12

♦ He came from heaven:

• John 3:13, 31; 6:33-35; 1 Corinthians 15:47

♦ He is preparing places in heaven for believers:

• John 14:1-2

♦ He is in heaven at God's right hand:

• Acts 7:55; Colossians 3:1; 1 Peter 3:22

♦ He will sum up all things in the heavens:

• Ephesians 1:10

♦ by Him all things in the heavens were created:

• Colossians 1:16

♦ He will reconcile things in heaven:

• Colossians 1:20

♦ He will return from heaven:

• I Thessalonians 1:10; 4:16; 2 Thessalonians 1:7

♦ He is exalted above the heavens:

• Hebrews 7:26

♦ He entered into heaven for believers:

• Hebrews 9:24

in relation to the Spirit:

♦ He descended from heaven upon Christ:

• John 1:32

♦ He was sent from heaven:

• 1 Peter 1:12

♦ combined with earth

• Genesis 1:1; Exodus 20:4; Deuteronomy 4:39; 2 Chronicles 2:12; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalms 102:11; 113:6; Isaiah 66:1; Daniel 6:27; Matthew 11:25; 24:35; Acts 4:24; 1 Corinthians 8:5; Philippians 2:10; James 5:12; Revelation 21:1

various relationships to heaven:

spatial relationships

♦ "under heaven" as universal

• Genesis 6:17; 7:19; Deuteronomy 9:14; Job 41:11; Ecclesiastes 1:13; Daniel 9:12; Acts 2:5; 4:12; Colossians 1:23

♦ "to" or "toward heaven" or "heaven above" as direction upward

• Deuteronomy 4:19, 39; Judges 13:20; 1 Kings 8:22; Lamentations 3:41; Matthew 14:19

♦ "one end of the heavens to the other" as extent

• Deuteronomy 4:32 (cf. Nehemiah 1:9); Mark 13:27

♦ "between heaven and earth" as suspension in midair

• 2 Samuel 18:9; 1 Chronicles 21:16; Ezekiel 8:3; Zechariah 5:9

♦ "the highest heaven"

• 1 Kings 8:27

♦ "ascended into heaven"

• Proverbs 30:4 (cf. Isaiah 14:13); Revelation 11:12

♦ "fallen from heaven"

• Isaiah 14:12 (cf. Luke 10:18); Acts 19:35; Revelation 8:10

♦ "descending from heaven"

• Daniel 4:23 (cf. Matthew 28:2); Revelation 3:12; 10:1; 18:1; 21:2

descriptive relationships

♦ heaven as "the expanse"

• Genesis 1:8

♦ "heavenly places"

• Ephesians 1:3, 20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12

♦ "heavenly things"

• Hebrews 8:5; 9:23

symbolic use of:

♦ heaven as a hyperbolic measure of height:

• Genesis 11:4; Deuteronomy 1:28; 1 Samuel 5:12; 2 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 7:11; Jeremiah 51:9; Amos 9:2; Revelation 18:5

♦ heaven personified:

• Deuteronomy 4:26; Psalms 69:34; 89:5; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:12; Hosea 2:21; Revelation 18:20

♦ shut up the heavens (i.e., lack of rain):

• Deuteronomy 11:17; 2 Chronicles 7:13

♦ foundations of heaven trembling (i.e., an expression of God's anger):

• 2 Samuel 22:8

♦ windows of heaven (i.e., openings for abundant provision on earth):

• 2 Kings 7:2, 19 (cf. Genesis 7:11 marg.; Psalms 78:23); Malachi 3:10

♦ heaven used to represent God Himself:

• 2 Chronicles 33:20; Daniel 4:26; Matthew 21:25; Luke 15:18

♦ vault of heaven (i.e., as it appears):

• Job 22:14

♦ pillars of heaven:

• Job 26:11

♦ divine stretching out of heaven:

• Psalms 104:2

♦ trembling or shaking of the heavens (i.e., in divine judgment):

• Isaiah 13:13; Haggai 2:6, 21; Mark 13:25

♦ opening of the heavens:

• Ezekiel 1:1; Matthew 3:16; John 1:51; Acts 7:56 (cf. Revelation 4:1; 19:11)

♦ kingdom of

(See KINGDOM)

• Matthew 3:2; 4:17; 5:3, 20; 8:11; 13:11; 16:19 (cf. 2 Timothy 4:18)

entrance into

• Matthew 18:3-4; John 3:5; 14:1-2, 6; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54

symbolic representation of:

♦ Abraham's bosom:

• Luke 16:22

♦ Paradise:

• Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:2, 4; Revelation 2:7

different forms of heaven:

the third heaven (i.e., the abode of God)

• 2 Corinthians 12:2

the present or first heaven(s)

♦ passing away of

• Isaiah 65:17; Matthew 24:35; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 20:11; 21:1 (cf. Job 14:12)

♦ fiery judgment and destruction of

• 2 Peter 3:7, 10, 12

♦ the new heaven(s)

• Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1

no negative features

♦ no hunger, thirst or heat

• Revelation 7:15-16

♦ no sorrow, crying or pain

• Revelation 7:17; 21:4

♦ no death

• Revelation 21:4

♦ no unbelievers

• Revelation 21:8; 22:15

♦ no night

• Revelation 21:25; 22:5

♦ no curse

• Revelation 22:3

all positive features

♦ created by God

• Isaiah 65:17

♦ permanent dwelling place for believers

• John 14:2-3 (cf. Isaiah 66:22)

♦ eternal, glorified bodies for believers

• 1 Corinthians 15:50-56 (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:1)

♦ eternal inheritance for believers

• 1 Peter 1:4

♦ residence of righteousness

• 2 Peter 3:13

♦ the new Jerusalem as the eternal city (see also CITTY)

• Revelation 3:12; 21:2, 10 (cf. Hebrews 11:10, 16; 12:22; 13:14)

♦ service to God

• Revelation 7:15

♦ presence of God and the Lamb and their throne

• Revelation 7:17; 21:22; 22:1

♦ provision of living water

• Revelation 7:17; 22:1

♦ adorned with brilliant and beautiful stones and transparent gold

• Revelation 21:10-21

♦ illumined by God's glory

• Revelation 21:11, 23

♦ has God and the Lamb as its temple

• Revelation 21:22

♦ morally pure

• Revelation 21:27

♦ occupied only by believers

• Revelation 21:27

♦ presence of the tree of life

• Revelation 22:2

♦ permanent light

• Revelation 22:5

various other uses:

♦ stars or starry host of heaven:

• Genesis 26:4; Deuteronomy 1:10; 2 Kings 17:16; Isaiah 13:10; Jeremiah 33:22; Acts 7:42

♦ blessings of heaven:

• Genesis 49:25 (cf. Deuteronomy 33:13)

♦ bread from heaven:

• Exodus 16:4

♦ existences in heaven:

• Exodus 20:4

♦ rain from heaven:

• Deuteronomy 11:11; Isaiah 55:10; Acts 14:17

♦ hand lifted up to heaven (i.e., as an oath):

• Deuteronomy 32:40; Revelation 10:5-6

♦ birds of:

• 1 Kings 21:24; Ezekiel 31:6

♦ angelic host of heaven:

• 1 Kings 22:19; Isaiah 24:21; Matthew 18:10; 22:30; 24:36; Luke 2:13; Galatians 1:8

♦ taken up to heaven:

• 2 Kings 2:1, 11; 2 Corinthians 12:2

♦ days of heaven:

• Psalms 89:29

♦ God's word settled in heaven:

• Psalms 119:89

♦ queen of heaven (i.e., female idol):

• Jeremiah 7:18

♦ signs of the heavens:

• Jeremiah 10:2

♦ the four ends of heaven (i.e., compass directions):

• Jeremiah 49:36

♦ clouds of heaven:

• Daniel 7:13; Matthew 26:64

♦ four winds of heaven:

• Zechariah 2:6

♦ oath by heaven:

• Matthew 5:34; 23:22; James 5:12

♦ opening of heaven:

• Luke 3:21

♦ sight into heaven:

• Acts 7:55

♦ a light from heaven:

• Acts 9:3

♦ vision from heaven:

• Acts 26:19

♦ cleansing of things in heaven:

• Hebrews 9:23

♦ Satan and his angels expelled from heaven:

• Revelation 12:7-9 (cf. Job 1:6-7; Ephesians 6:12)

♦ fire called down from heaven:

• Revelation 13:13

This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.

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