Where is Heaven?    Up "there" - or Right Here on Earth? Heaven is "up there".               This earth shall pass away after a one thousand year period of time, which is  supposed to occur after a “rapture”, takes place. We’ll  get  into that later.    Suffice it to say, for those who believe that earth is both heaven and hell, it isn’t, nor shall it be.

On  December  20,  2006,  ABC  News  and  Barbara Walters did  a  special a year   after  I   wrote  and copyrighted the "bones" of my book - "Heaven - How Do I Get There?"             The show was entitled - "Heaven – Where is it and how do I get there?" Apparently lots of people wanted to know.

Of course, turning my books into online e-books gives me the advantage of updating along the way, so this keeps my e-books current.

This is still on the ABC News web site: "In a survey by ABC News, nearly nine out of 10 Americans said they believed  heaven existed. But what exactly do people envision when they think of an afterlife, and what do they believe is  required to get there? Is heaven a myth dreamed up to give our lives meaning? Or is it a real place? Barbara  Walters traveled to India, Israel, and throughout the United States, talking to religious leaders  of  every   major  faith,  believers  and nonbelievers, scientists,  celebrities, and   even terrorists - in search of a better understanding of just what people believe when it comes to the afterlife.""

Barbara Walters

And - "Every culture has wrestled with the question of  an  afterlife,  and  most  have come  to  a  similar conclusion: The bad end up in hell, the good go to heaven."

 It is good that ABC did the special to draw attention to  the subject that should be on      EVERYONE'S mind - Heaven, but that last sentence will be proven wrong, dangerous and could cost people their very soul.  That is why I am only too happy to get my book (or rudiments of this BLOG) into as many hands as God allows it to fall into.

The earth, including the seas, shall "burn with fervent heat" just after that thousand year period that I just spoke of.  Then, there will be a new heaven and a new earth.  We get that from Revelation 21:1 - "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven  and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."  At that point a New Jerusalem will be lowered from heaven to this new earth.  That verse reads, "and there was no more sea."  Are you confused yet?  It’s okay, we'll un- confuse you.

John, the disciple of Jesus, said, "I saw a new Heaven and a new earth - "For the First Heaven...."

Whoa!  Stop!  The "first heaven"? What did John mean by  "first heaven"?

The earth shall burn with fervent heat - to cleanse it. The first heaven, which is what we see and  breathe  air  from,  is  located  from  the surface  of  the earth upwards to a point. That first heaven shall also be burned with fervent heat.  Then, "The first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea." The seas were also burned up.

There are Three Heavens!

The Bible states that there are actually three heavens. The  first is the one we just spoke of, located just above the  surface of the earth. Let's talk a bit more about that first heaven.  When Absalom, son of King David, was riding his horse, he died when he caught his long hair in a low-hanging branch of a tree.  The Bible says, "Absalom hung there, between heaven and  earth".   2 Samuel 18:9 - "And Absalom rode upon  a  mule,  and  the  mule  went  under  the  thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the  earth; and the mule that was under him went away. "Absalom, therefore, became suspended in this space of heaven - an area from the surface of the planet extending upwards - our atmosphere.

The second heaven is where the planets, sun, and moon are located. This we would refer to as "space" - but not the final frontier, as the Star Trek series used to tell us about.

THE THIRD HEAVEN – WHERE GOD LIVES

The third heaven is where God lives.    We shall be visiting there shortly. This Heaven is located above the solar system.

We are told that there is a complete city known as "New  Jerusalem", already built in Heaven, and this entire  city will be "lowered down to the earth in the future."

Revelation 21:2  - "And I, John, saw the holy city - New  Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven,   prepared  as a   bride  adorned    for  her husband.  And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and  God  himself  shall be  with them, and be their God." 

This Holy City of God is 1,500 miles long. I can almost hear you say, "Wait a minute, John - how can that be?  If a New Jerusalem is let down over the old Jerusalem, it would extend out over the ocean!"  That would  be true  - if we did not already discover that there will be no ocean - they were all burned up. They no longer exist.  They are no longer needed.  The New Jerusalem will also be 1,500 miles wide, and 1,500 miles high.

To put this into perspective, imagine that you are in your  airplane - heading to your vacation spot in the Bahamas, and you are cruising at 40,000 feet altitude. The New Jerusalem city is 198 times higher than that! Think about how incredible that is.

I once flew at 49,000 feet in a military jet, and when I looked out the window, it was light blue below me, and purple just outside the window.  Above the purple was jet  black as I looked up.      So, 198 times higher than commercial jets fly is a very tall City!

The New Jerusalem has walls around the entire city. To  catch a glimpse of the height of these walls, you have to imagine looking up the side of a Colonial style home here  on  the earth. It can be about 35' high. The walls surrounding the New Jerusalem are 280' tall. Again, this is incredible - eight times taller than a Colonial home.

To really catch a glimpse of this magnificent place reserved for us, I will begin to paint a picture for you of  the  walls, and of Heaven itself so you can  "see" things with your mind's eye.

You might be thinking that the walls surrounding this great  new   city  are made of    stone     or   concrete. Heaven's walls are totally different from anything you might have dreamed about. Painting a picture for you will  be  easy  because  the  walls  and  the  city  are described in vivid detail in the Bible.

 The complete description of heaven is found in chapter one of my book - "Heaven - How Do I Get There?" found in my online books store.  Just click on that link on any page and it’ll take you there.

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