Thursday, December 13, 2018

Flat Earth Globe Part 2 The Three Heavens


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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