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1 | Paradise, Hell, and Heaven | Luke 16:23 | aries_luv_ppl | 136260 | ||
What I mean by Luke 16 is this "The Rich Man and Lazarus 19"There once was a rich man, expensively dressed in the latest fashions, wasting his days in conspicuous consumption. 20A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been dumped on his doorstep. 21All he lived for was to get a meal from scraps off the rich man's table. His best friends were the dogs who came and licked his sores. 22"Then he died, this poor man, and was taken up by the angels to the lap of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. 23In hell and in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham in the distance and Lazarus in his lap. 24He called out, "Father Abraham, mercy! Have mercy! Send Lazarus to dip his finger in water to cool my tongue. I'm in agony in this fire.' 25"But Abraham said, "Child, remember that in your lifetime you got the good things and Lazarus the bad things. It's not like that here. Here he's consoled and you're tormented. 26Besides, in all these matters there is a huge chasm set between us so that no one can go from us to you even if he wanted to, nor can anyone cross over from you to us.' 27"The rich man said, "Then let me ask you, Father: Send him to the house of my father 28where I have five brothers, so he can tell them the score and warn them so they won't end up here in this place of torment.' 29"Abraham answered, "They have Moses and the Prophets to tell them the score. Let them listen to them.' 30""I know, Father Abraham,' he said, "but they're not listening. If someone came back to them from the dead, they would change their ways.' 31"Abraham replied, "If they won't listen to Moses and the Prophets, they're not going to be convinced by someone who rises from the dead.'" " |
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2 | Paradise, Hell, and Heaven | Luke 16:23 | aries_luv_ppl | 136259 | ||
2 King 2:11 Elijah and Elisha were walking along and talking, when suddenly there appeared between them a flaming chariot pulled by fiery horses. Right away, a strong wind took Elijah up into heaven. Genesis 5 21When Enoch was sixty-five, he had a son named Methuselah, 22and during the next three hundred years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God, 23-24and God took him away at the age of three hundred sixty-five. Luke 24 50He then led them out of the city over to Bethany. Raising his hands he blessed them, 51and while blessing them, took his leave, being carried up to heaven. Three Kinds of "Heaven" in the Bible: The Bible tells about three kinds of Heavens: 1- The First heaven: The first heaven is the atmosphere, a material heaven, the physical heavens of the sky and outer space, and it has its own hosts, like birds, planets, stars. And that's just natural. Very tangible, yes. No matter how far out the Hubbell Space Telescope goes and how it maps the stars, it's never going to find the real Heaven of our eternity on the other side of the moon. It's just a physical reality. 2- The Second heaven: The Second heaven is what Paul calls "the heavenly places" in Eph.6:12, a spiritual heaven around us today, as Paul puts it: "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph.6:12). In this dimension of the Spirit, there are both angelic forces and godly forces, as well as demonic forces and powers. This second heaven, spiritual atmosphere, that is cohabited by both good and evil, is a very, very small part of the cosmos. It really just surrounds this earth, the only rebellious and sinful place in the whole cosmos. 3- The Third Heaven, our real Heaven!: The Third Heaven, the one that Paul was caught up into and he heard things and saw things there that could not be translated to the natural world, the third heaven is that place where God Himself dwells. "I know a man in Christ (Paul himself) 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. And I know that this man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows-- was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell." (2Cor.12:1-4) And the third Heaven isn't the same as the second heaven, because, remember, Lucifer, who used to be in the third Heaven, was cast from Heaven, and yet, everyone would acknowledge that Satan still inhabits the spiritual dimension. God cannot abide with evil, so there's no evil presence in the third Heaven. |
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