Flat/Earth/Globe
Study Part 2
In
this article, we are going to look at the three Heavens with pillers
in between them and a dome over the top of the third Heaven.
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In
ancient of days, the Jews believed there were 7 stages of Heaven
which the Bible does not support. About 10 years ago, I saw a
beautiful picture of 3 heavens. The Earth was the foundation and is
called the first Heaven. Then pillars between the first and second
Heaven (The Mazzoroth, Space, Universes with their own parallel
earths, and stars). Sliders was an one hour TV series and I was glued
to the TV tube when it came on. I am a science fiction buff so I like
watching many SF Movies and TV shows. Then more pillars and then the
third Heaven. Each Heaven sat on a pedestal that was as wide as the
pillar and as long as the pillar. Above that was the dome. I saw this
picture in the Interpreters Dictionary, a Bible Dictionary, or an 100
year old Bible.
In
the scriptures, you can line up all your lists and place them either
in the first heaven with some to the 2nd Heaven and a lot to the
third heaven.
The
Creation of the World
Gen
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
In
the Hebrew, this verse forms a Menorah. In Gemetria, this verse has
54 occurrences of the Number 7. Bara/create refers to: Son, Father,
and Holy Spirit. Elohim (plural) refers to the one God of the
Universes or many little gods. So we will worship God or our many
little gods. Aleph-Tav and Lamid Aleph-Tav is in the 4th
place (4000 years from Creation) and 6th
place (6000 years from creation) and refers to the Messiah.
The
Heavens were created first and then the earth. But flat earthers
insist that the earth is first and then the Heavens. People on earth
are watching for the return of the Messiah and they look down to the
earth first and then to the Heavens. At Yeshua's first coming the
Star of Bethlehem announced His arrival and so with the second
coming, the Heavens will announce His arrival. Heaven is first and
then the earth so look up first to the Heavens and then to the earth.
The increase of the birth pains is found in the Second Heaven as well
as in the first Heaven.
If
you draw an diagonal line from upper right to lower left and put the
scales (Libra) at the center as a focal point, then the Heavens would
be in the upper right and the earth and Hell in the lower left. Then
you can further divide this into the sheep going to the right
(Heaven) and the goats going to the left (Hell). This principle of
right/left can also be applied to the location of the Sun and Moon at
certain times of the Season using the figures in the constellations
such as Virgo and the fall equinox. Aquarius, the Twins, Pisces,
Ophihucus, Sagittarius and I guess the rest of the major zodiac
constellations. They each have a right side and a left side from
God's perspective in the third heaven.
The
center of the cosmos is the Third Heaven even though flat earthers
believe it is the first heaven.
From
here onwards is cut, copy, and paste from Bible Dictionaries, David.
L. Sterns Jewish NT Commentary and the Bible and the verses flat
earthers use. They will be divided up into the 3 different Heavens.
Depending upon what dictionary you use, solid dome can also refer to
a transparent dome. So A says solid dome and B says transparent dome.
So then it come to a Tee account with positive on the right and
negative on the left and we then see who outweighs the other once the
3 classifications are finished.
The
phrase “heaven and earth” is used to indicate the whole universe
(Gen_1:1; Jer_23:24; Act_17:24).
Miscellaneous
verses on Heaven and Earth Isa 45:18; Isa 45:12; Jer 10:12; Gen 1:1;
Gen 2:1; 2 Chron 2:12; Neh 9:6; Job 9:8; Ps 19:1; Isa 37:16; Isa
42:5; Jer 10:12; Jer 32:17; Jer 51:15;Acts 4:24; Acts 14:15; Heb
1:10; Rev 10:6; Rev 14:7
Heaven
Greek ouranos and the Hebrew shamaim
HEAVEN.—In
the cosmic theory of the ancient world, and of the Hebrews in
particular, the earth was flat, lying between a great pit into which
the shades of the dead departed, and the heavens above in which God
and the angels dwelt, and to which it came to be thought the
righteous went, after having been raised from the dead to live for
ever. It was natural to think of the heavens as concave (having an
outline or surface that curves inward like the interior of a circle
or sphere) above the earth, and resting on some foundation, possibly
of pillars, set at the extreme horizon (2Sa_22:9, Pro_8:27-29).
Pro
8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass
upon the face of the depth:
Pro
8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep:
Pro
8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not
pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Meaning
for the word Heaven
(a)
The usual Hebrew word for “heavens” is shamayim, a plural form
meaning “heights,” “elevations” (Gen_1:1; Gen_2:1).
(b)
The Hebrew word marom is also used (Psa_68:18; Psa_93:4; Psa_102:19,
etc.) as equivalent to shamayim, “high places,” “heights.”
(c)
Heb. galgal, literally a “wheel,” is rendered “heaven” in
Psa_77:18 (R.V., “whirlwind”).
(d)
Heb. shahak, rendered “sky” (Deu_33:26; Job_37:18; Psa_18:11),
plural “clouds” (Job_35:5; Job_36:28; Psa_68:34, marg.
“heavens”), means probably the firmament.
(e)
Heb. rakia is closely connected with (d), and is rendered
“firmamentum” in the Vulgate, whence our “firmament”
(Gen_1:6; Deu_33:26, etc.), regarded as a solid expanse.
Metaphorical
meaning of term. Isa_14:13, Isa_14:14; “doors of heaven”
(Psa_78:23); heaven “shut” (1Ki_8:35); “opened” (Eze_1:1).
(See 1Ch_21:16.)
Spiritual
meaning. The place of the everlasting blessedness of the righteous;
the abode of departed spirits.
(a)
Christ calls it his “Father's house” (Joh_14:2).
(b)
It is called “paradise” (Luk_23:43; 2Co_12:4; Rev_2:7).
(c)
“The heavenly Jerusalem” (Gal_4:26; Heb_12:22; Rev_3:12).
(d)
The “kingdom of heaven” (Mat_25:1; Jas_2:5).
(e)
The “eternal kingdom” (2Pe_1:11).
(f)
The “eternal inheritance” (1Pe_1:4; Heb_9:15).
(g)
The “better country” (Heb_11:14, Heb_11:16).
(h)
The blessed are said to “sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,”
and to be “in Abraham's bosom” (Luk_16:22; Mat_8:11); to “reign
with Christ” (2Ti_2:12); and to enjoy “rest” (Heb_4:10,
Heb_4:11).
In
heaven the blessedness of the righteous consists in the possession of
“life everlasting,” “an eternal weight of glory” (2Co_4:17),
an exemption from all sufferings forever, a deliverance from all
evils (2Co_5:1, 2Co_5:2) and from the society of the wicked
(2Ti_4:18), bliss without termination, the “fulness of joy” for
ever (Luk_20:36; 2Co_4:16, 2Co_4:18; 1Pe_1:4; 1Pe_5:10; 1Jn_3:2). The
believer's heaven is not only a state of everlasting blessedness, but
also a “place”, a place “prepared” for them (Joh_14:2).
The
Three Heavens
The
Hebrews, like other ancient peoples, believed in a plurality of
heavens (Deu_10:14), and the literature of Judaism speaks of seven.
Deu
10:14 Behold, the heaven (second Heaven) and the heaven of heavens
(Aravoth; third Heaven) is the LORD'S thy God, the earth (first
Heaven) also, with all that therein is.
Although
the descriptions of these heavens varied, it would seem that it was
not unusual to regard the third heaven as Paradise. It was to this
that St. Paul said he bad been caught up (2Co_12:2).
Words:
Heaven, Paradise, 3 heavens, Aravoth.
Heavens
(the Heights) Psalms 148:1
The
tabernacle in the Heavens has 3 sections and is the same on the
earth. You have the Holy of Holies (third Heaven), the Holy place
(2nd Heaven) and then the outer court (first Heaven)
Earth
(First Heaven)
A.
The firmament, as “fowls of the heaven” (Gen_2:19; Gen_7:3,
Gen_7:23; Psa_8:8, etc.), “the eagles of heaven” (Lam_4:19), etc.
B.
Courtyard. Women's Court. Altar for sacrifices. The "altar"
(Rev_6:9)
C.
Verses on First Heaven: I
Thess 4:17;Rev 15:2; Jer 31:37; Matt 24:29-30; Acts 2:19-20; Ps 19:1;
Ps 33:9; Isa 40:22; Isa 42:5; Isa 45:18;
Eph
2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph
6:12 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.
It
is used of the surrounding air wherein "the fowls of heaven"
fly (Gen_1:26, compare Gen_1:20); from whence the rain and hail fall
(Deu_11:11).
"The
four quarters of heaven" (Jer_49:36) and "the circuit of
heaven" (Job_22:14) refer to the atmospheric heaven. Four
corners of the earth are North, East, South, and West.
By
METAPHOR (not literal) it is represented as a building with
foundations and pillars (2Sa_22:8; Job_26:11; walls), with an
entrance gate (Gen_28:17) and windows opened to pour down rain
(Gen_7:11, compare 2Ki_7:2; Mal_3:10).
Job_37:18,
"spread out the sky ... strong ... as a molten looking glass,"
NOT solid as "firmament" would imply (but transparent),
whereas the "expanse" is the true meaning (Gen_1:6;
Isa_44:24), but phenomenally like one of the ancient mirrors made of
firm molten polished metal.
The
foundation was concaved and between the earth and the bottom of the
picture was hell.
Physical
organisms live here, not 3rd heaven.
Pillar
PILLAR.—1.
With two or three unimportant exceptions, ‘pillar’ in OT is the
rendering of two very distinct Heb. terms, ‘ammûd and mazzçbâh.
The former denotes in most cases—for a conspicuous exception see
Jachin and Boaz—a pillar or column supporting the roof or other
part of a building (Jdg_16:25 f., 1Ki_7:2 f.), also the pillars from
which the hangings of the Tabernacle were suspended (Exo_26:32 and
oft.). From this sense the transition is easy to a column of smoke
(Jdg_20:40), and to the ‘pillar of cloud’ and the ‘pillar of
fire’ of the Exodus and the Wanderings (Exo_13:21 etc.).
Pillar,
Figurative
The
further transition to the figurative use of the term ‘pillar,’
which alone prevails in NT (Gal_2:9, 1Ti_3:15, Rev_3:12; Rev_10:1),
may be seen in Job_9:6; Job_26:11—passages reflecting an antique
cosmogony in which the pillars of earth and heaven were actual
supports.
The
Heaven (Second Heaven). Eph 4:10
the
Mazzaroth (Job 38:31-32; 2 Kigns 23:3-5), Universes, parallel earths,
and stars. The second heaven in later Jewish thought was regarded as
the abode of evil spirits and angels awaiting punishment (stars
falling to earth in Revelation). This series of superimposed heavens
was regarded as filled by different sorts of superhuman beings.
Sirius
as the central sun of our system.
A.
The starry heavens (Deu_17:3; Jer_8:2;
Mat_24:29).
B.
Holy Place: It had also one holy candlestick, a golden altar of
incense, and a table of showbread. "censer," etc.
(Rev_8:3).
C.
"The four quarters of heaven" (Jer_49:36) North, East,
South, and West.
D.
Verses on 2nd Heaven: Matt 24:29-30 Acts 2:19-20; Ps 8:3; Ps 19:1; Ps
33:9; Isa 42:5; Isa 45:18
The
Heaven of Heavens (Third Heaven). Heb. 7:26; Heb 4:14
A.
Has social relations in the spiritual sense but not in the physical.
The earth (this world) is for physical organisms.
B.
In the highest, or Aravoth, was the throne of God
C.
The aerial heaven and the starry heaven, the veil.
D."the
circuit of heaven" (Job_22:14)
E.
Holy of Holies
F.
The "temple" in heaven (Rev_11:19; Rev_14:17; Rev_15:5;
Rev_15:8).
G.
“The heaven of heavens,” or “the
third heaven” (Deu_10:14; 1Ki_8:27; Psa_115:16; Psa_148:4;
2Co_12:2).
H.
God's dwelling place
Deu_26:15;
Zec_2:13; 1Ki_8:30; 1Ki_8:39; 1Ki_8:43; 1Ki_8:49; 2Ch_6:18; 2Ch_6:21;
2Ch_6:27; 2Ch_6:30; 2Ch_6:33; 2Ch_6:35; 2Ch_6:39; Jer_23:24;
1Ch_16:31; 1Ch_21:26; 2Ch_7:14; Neh_9:27; 2Ch_2:6; 2Ch_30:27;
Job_22:12; Job_22:14; Psa_2:4; Psa_11:4; Psa_20:6; Psa_33:13;
Psa_102:19; Psa_103:19; Psa_135:6; Dan_4:35; Psa_113:5; Psa_123:1;
Ecc_5:2; Isa_57:15; Isa_63:15; Isa_66:1; Lam_3:41; Lam_3:50;
Dan_5:23; Mat_5:34; Mat_5:45; Mat_6:9; Mat_18:10; Mat_18:14;
Mar_11:25-26; Mat_10:32-33; Mat_11:25; Mat_12:50; Mat_16:17;
Mar_16:19; Act_7:49; Rom_1:18; Heb_8:1; Rev_8:1; Rev_12:7-9;
Rev_21:22-27; Rev_22:1-5
I.
The wicked excluded from Gal_5:21; Eph_5:5; Rev_22:15; Matt 13:49;
Matt 25:46; Lk 16:22;Lk 20:34-36; Joh 5:28-29; Rev 21:27
J.
Miscellaneous Scriptures on 3rd Heaven: 2Kigs 2:11; Job 3:17; Ps
16:11; Ps 17:15; Ps 23:6;Ps 24:3,7; Ps 73:24; Isa 33:17; Mal 3:17;
Mat_5:3; Mat_5:8; Mat_5:12; Mat_5:20; Mat_6:20; Luk_12:33; Mat_8:11;
Matt 18:10; Mtt 19:21; Lk 10:20; Lk 12:32; Lk 15:6-7,10, 32; Lk
16:22; Lk 23:43; Joh 12:26; Joh 13:36; Acts 7:55-56; 2 Cor 5:1; 2 Cor
12:2-4; Col 1:5-6; I Thess 2:12; 2 Thess 1:7; Heb 10:34; I Per 1:14;
2 Pet 1:11; Rev 2:7; Rev 3:21; Lk 12:8; Rev 4:4; Rev 5:9; Rev 7:9,
13-17; Isa 49:9-10; Rev 14:1-3;
K.
Physical Heavens, General References: Gen_1:1; Psa_19:1; Psa_50:6;
Psa_68:33; Psa_89:29; Psa_97:6; Psa_103:11; Psa_113:4; Psa_115:16;
Jer_31:37; Eze_1:1; Matt 24:29-30
L.
Physical
heavens, creation of
General
references: Gen_1:1; Gen_2:1; 1Ch_16:26; 2Ch_2:12; Neh_9:6; Job_9:8;
Psa_19:1; Ps 33:6; Psa 148:4-6: Prov 8:27; Isa 37:16
Eph
6:12 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.
The
third heaven is not the air (the first heaven) or the sky where the
stars are (the second heaven), but the "place" where God
is, a spiritual realm. Other explanations are possible.
2Co
12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the
body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God
knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
I
know a man, namely, myself, Sha'ul. Out of modesty he prefers to
speak of himself in the third person when talking about his visions
and revelations. That he is speaking of himself is clear from
2Co_12:6-7; so that when he says in 2Co_12:5, "About such a man
I will boast; but about myself I will not boast," it is as if
Sha'ul were two persons (compare Rom_7:14-25); or, perhaps more
accurately, it is that he is now completely objective about his
experience and utterly unattached to it.
2Co
12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable
words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
This
series of superimposed heavens was regarded as filled by different
sorts of superhuman beings.
"The
kingdom of the heavens" in Matthew, for "the kingdom of
God" in Mark and Luke, is drawn from Dan_4:26, "the heavens
do rule," (Dan_2:44) "the God of heaven shall set up a
kingdom which shall never be destroyed." It consists of many
stages and phases, issuing at last in heaven being brought down fully
to earth, and the tabernacle of God being with men (Rev_21:2-3;
Rev_21:10, etc.).
The
plurality of the phases is expressed by "the kingdom of the
heavens." The Bible is distinguished from the sacred books of
false religions in not having minute details of heavenly bliss such
as men's curiosity would crave. The grand feature of its blessedness
is represented as consisting in holy personal union and immediate
face to face communion with God and the Lamb; secondarily, that the
saints are led by the Lamb to living fountains of water, and fed with
the fruit of the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God,
the antitype of the former Adamic paradise.
It
is no longer merely a garden as Eden, but a heavenly "city"
and garden combined, nature and art no longer mutually destructive,
but enhancing each the charm of the other, individuality and society
realized perfectly (Revelation 2-3, 7, 21-22). No separate temple,
but the whole forming one vast "temple," finding its center
in the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb, who are the temple to each and
all the king-priests reigning and serving there. This was the model
Moses was shown on Sinai (Heb_7:1-6). The earthly tabernacle was its
pattern and figure (Heb_9:23-24).
Millennium/
Messianic Kingdom
No
marriage (Luk_20:34-36), no meats for the belly (1Co_6:13), no death,
no sorrow, crying, pain; no defilement, no curse, no night, no
candle, no light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light
(Rev_21:4; Rev_21:27; Rev_22:3; Rev_22:5).
Third
Heaven to First Heaven
Thither
He will "receive His people to Himself" after He hath
"prepared a place for them" (Joh_14:2-4), that where He is
there His servants may be (Joh_12:26). From heaven, which is God's
court, angels are sent down to this earth, as the multitude of the
heavenly host (distinct from the host of heaven," Act_7:42), and
to which they return (Luk_2:13-15; Luk_22:43). God Himself is
addressed "Our Father who art in heaven." His home is the
parent home, the sacred hearth of the universe.
The
future dwelling place of the righteous
Called:
A
Garner Mat_3:12
The
Kingdom of Christ and of God Eph_5:5
The
Father's House Joh_14:2
A
Heavenly Country Heb_11:16
A
Rest Heb_4:9; Rev_14:13
Paradise
2Co_12:2; 2Co_12:4
Verses
on: Matt 13:30, 43; Matt 3:12; Matt 25:34,46; Matt 22:30; Joh
5:28-29; Joh 10:28; Joh 14:2-3; Col 3:4; I Thess 4:17; 2 Pet 1:11
Physical
heavens, destruction of
Job_14:12;
Psa_102:25-26; Isa_34:4; Isa_51:6; Mat_5:18; Mat_24:35; Heb_1:10-12;
2Pe_3:10; 2Pe_3:12; Rev_6:12-14; Rev_20:11; Rev_21:1; Rev_21:4
The
NT.
The
Biblical descriptions of heaven are not scientific, but SYMBOLICAL
(not literal). Practically all these are to be found in the Johannine
Apocalypse (Revelation). Revelation = Eschatological.
Similarly,
there have been innumerable speculations endeavouring to set forth in
sensuous form the sort of life which is to be lived in heaven. They
may be of value in cultivating religious emotion, but they belong to
the region of speculation. The prevailing tendency at the present
time among theologians, to regard heaven as a state of the soul
rather than a place, belongs likewise to the region of opinion. The
degree of its probability will be determined by one’s general view
as to the nature of immortality.
The
Eighth Day (New Heaven and a New Earth):
The
visible heavens shall pass away to give place to the abiding new
heaven and earth wherein shall dwell righteousness
Ps
102:25-27; Isa 65:17; Isa 66:22; 2 Pet 3:7, 13; Heb 12:26-28; Rev
21:1-5, 9-11, 18-19, 21-25; Rev 22:1-5
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