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^[1] Dictionary.com, s.v. "Cosmology." ^[2] McKim, Donald K. Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms., s.v. "Christology."1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. ^[3] Howard-Snyder, D. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology Baker Reference Library., s.v. "Eschatology." 2nd ed. Baker Reference Library. (Grand Rapids, MI. Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K.: Baker Academic; Paternoster Press, 2001). The teachings concerning "the "last things"...in relation either to human infividuals (comprising death, resurrection, judgment, and the afterlife) or to the world." ^[4]Dictionary.com, s.v. "soteriology." "the teaching of salvation through Jesus Christ" ^[5] McKim, 85, s.v. "ecclesiology." "The study of the church as a Biblical and Theological topic." Jesus is building an assembly of all believers before the Father. (Matthew 16:18)

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Volume I -The Heavens Past

• What did the "everlasting to everlasting" God do before Genesis 1:1?
• "In Beginning" - God? Everything God ever created? Everything in this age?
• Did Jesus Ever Say Man Was Created In Beginning?
• How do major creation theories compare? (Chart)
• Why does darkness exist in the presence of eternal unchanging God of Light with no darkness at all?
• What happened in the heaven when Satan was authoritatively removed from the presence of God the Father?
• For how long did Satan serve faithfully in heaven?
• What is the difference in time in heaven and time on earth?
• Does God always relate to His creation with time?
• How Mathematically Did God Slow Down Time in This Dark Creation?
• Are There Bible Verses That Teach Time Began and Will End?
• Could the perspectives of six-day creation and ancient creation both be right?
• What did John mean when calling this earth the "first" if a previous creation existed?
• When did death of temporary existence begin in the kingdom of God?
• Did creation decay by God's command prior to man’s sin to the benefit of needful growth?
• Was the creation temporary even before the sin of Adam and Eve?
• What are the details of God's plan of redemption of His Creation?
  

Volume II - The Heavens Present

• What dimensional pattern of the heavens today does the Tabernacle picture?
• What is the significance of the clouds in God's appearances to man?
• Based on the Tabernacle how might one draw a diagram of the present heavens?
• Why does God ask us to labor in this field rather than just come Himself?
• What was the blessing God brought through Abraham and his descendants?
• How should believers pray in light of God's coming Kingdom?
• Was Jesus from this world or another much different than this one?
• Is God the Father here at this time in the dimension of this world?
• Are we true-bond servants of Jesus Christ if our message of His coming Kingdom is not correct?
• What worship does the Father approve? What is "in spirit and in truth"?
• What happens at physical death to those who trust in Jesus?
• Where today is the room (KJV mansion) Jesus promised?
• Will we know our loved ones in Heaven?
• What does it mean when deceased children of God are asleep?
• Why are Christians so troubled over death?
  

Volume III - The Heavens Future

• Who will be gathered together?
• How many times does Jesus return at the Second Coming?
• What is the purpose for the gathering?
• What is the timing of the gathering in relation to earthly events?
• Does the Seven Seals Scroll contained all of the judgments of the Tribulation?
• Why is the wrath of God in Great Tribulation compared to labor contractions?
• What is a possible Bible chronology of prophetic last days?
• Will our bodies be a perfection of this body or like the Lord's glorified body of eternity past?
• Are there different levels in heaven?
• Is activity in heaven similar to this world or much different?
• Where and when will Israel be saved?
• What will believers do for the first thousand years of Jesus Christ reign?
• What is the Day of the Lord?
• What will happen to everything in this world and those who reject God's plan in Jesus Christ?
• From what is the New Heaven and New Earth made?
• What do we know about the New Heaven and the New Earth?
  

The Heavens

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The Heavens

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Welcome to The Heavens. If you have in prayer to the Father acknowledged that you have believed in Jesus as provision for you personally for saving from your sin you then have the hope of a place God's Word calls heaven living forever as a child of God. So just what does heaven mean? What are the acccurate details about this place we will spend eternity? If you are interested in such matters by God's providence you have come to the right place. This unique eLearning site attempts to teach a distinctive Christian "heavenly view" in contrast to the more popular myths of Christian "world view" of today. The purpose is to focus on the promised eternal destiny with the Father rather than a errant temporal return to an Eden like state on earth. It is an attempt to harmonize a complete and comprehensive integrated story from the Bible about the Kingdom of the Heavens as opposed to the myths of a Christian kingdom of heaven on this present earth. The foundation for this story is the Bible - God's Word to mankind, which is embedded often for you to test what God's message really says about the place of which you hope. As a work in progress the basics of the written portion of the work is nearly complete. The Lord willing additional supportive works will be added along with audio and video segments that are currently in the planning stages of development. Our goal is a dynamic growing fluid work that totally resonates as accurately as possible God's story as revealed by the Holy Spirit in an interactive eLearning environment.

The message of "The Heavens" is divided into three Volumes. Volume I presents the past explaining why a portion of the Kingdom now called the first and second heaven currently abides in darkness separated from God the Father, Who is at this time self relegated to fellowship with the created of the third heaven due to His Holiness. Upon this basic foundation of Volume I then Volume II expands the present loving work of God in His relationship to the current temporary creation we now live. Volume III then prophetically looks future to events God has promised that finally end in the completed reunification of creation with Himself in but one heaven and one earth.

Our message is that of an "everlasting to everlasting" active and lively Creator and His loving relationship to that which He has created for His own pleasure past, is creating present and will yet create future. While that which is created is not eternal as God, inspired Scripture reveals God's creativity began long past before the "beginning" of Genesis 1:1. We want you to quickly understand though that while holding to an eternally active creative God in an ancient creation relative to mankind's short existence you will find no evolution theory here. The complete picture of God's Word to man shows the Genesis "beginning" occurring long before the sin of Adam and Eve who were made in a distinct fashioning nearly six thousand years ago. Current confusion among religions of the earth comes as the result of failure to understand God’s Kingdom work presently progresses in a interim estranged dark divided state experiencing relative time. Using this temporary time variation His fashioning continues future until all who will come by personal acceptance of His invitation to redemption in Jesus Christ are reunified to His Glorious Light into eternity.

If you are new to the Bible its central theme is the promise of a new Kingdom to come in Jesus Christ very diverse from the world we now live. May we suggest you start with the link How Is One Assured of Eternal Life in God's Coming Kingdom? The Bible is clear to understand such wondrous promises you must establish a proper relationship with the Father in Heaven and possess the seal of citizenship of the indwelling Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-16). This comes by a prayer of faith to the inviting Heavenly Father in the sacrificial work of Jesus for our sin in comparison to a perfect, just and Holy God. As a believer born again of the Holy Spirit (John 3:3-8) you can only then begin to understand God's loving plan of dynamic construction ongoing in God's Kingdom that is completed at the end of Jesus coming thousand year reign.

As a citizen of this coming Kingdom you may then consider this relationship with your Creator more fully. If the troubles of this temporary world in "thorns and thistles" and "sweat of the brow" have brought you to this site searching for more information about citizens now in heaven may we suggest the link What happens at physical death to those who trust in Jesus? God gives great comfort to us in knowledge that all is well for those who have placed faith in Jesus Christ for eternal life (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).

If you are thirsting for more knowledge about your eternal heavenly home to come may we suggest starting first with a good foundation of basic understanding about some particular attributes of this creation God has made for His own pleasure. Just like reading a novel today long ago you started by learning the letters and sounds of the alphabet. Now the letters of the page all flow together in conceptual meanings and you do not even realize the individual letters are on the page. The creation God designed has eternal building blocks in the same way. The first is the understanding about time in all of God's creative relationships.^[1] Particularly important is knowing the three important facets always found in time. These are the truth that time forever has past, present and future in this Kingdom God has shaped. This principle inspired the the old title of this ministry and early publication - Heaven Past Present Future Ministries..

Also a second foundational truth is the knowledge that time has an eternal relationship with space and matter. These three must coexist in cohesion together. All are absolutely necessary essentials for the existence of a creation. In every Scripture when God describes aspects involving any God-Creation-Relationship the three properties of time, space and matter always exist in some form whether the setting in the this world of temporal darkness or the now unseen world of His Light.

Even in eternity future these three elements are found in the New Heaven and New Earth to come as seen in Revelation 21-22 though each is vastly changed from the present dark universe we live. Time will no longer be relative, then becoming one with God's time for that which has been created now in His immediate dwelling in full fellowship. Space will no longer be vastly spread out in decay but becomes unified around the Father and Son as one Heaven and One Earth with the New Jerusalem in a stable viability. Matter is replaced by Light filling each with perpetual energy no longer from the breakdown of other parts of the creation. In eternity no shadows are found. Contrast in differentiation of objects and natural barriers are provided thus by color and brightness of the light matter around us. For example our travel is not guided by following dark openings of doors on unlit paths. We proceed through gates gleaming like pearls over streets gold colored. As promised the former things of our current world will all pass away yet we still will have time, space and matter.

A creation cannot continue without these three properties. Without time there is no motion through space and matter is frozen in inactivity. Without motion of matter in space time does not pass. Without matter there is nothing to move through space so time can be measured. By God’s Divine standards any Creation must have space that can be measured as length, width and height. It must also exist as some measurable form of matter dispersed to varying degrees as either in liquid, solid, gas or the light form of the future. Further it must have time properties of past, present and future. No example can be given in God’s Word that defies this necessary standard. Any thought of such only comes from the imaginations of men.

Please understand by time we refer not to the current aging in deterioration decay but sequential committed present actions by the created that become unchangeable past as that which is created embraces future actions. Regarding time in God’s Kingdom once an event is committed by anything God has created or even God Himself it is historically permanent and remains unchanged record forever. God keeps immaculate records on the action of every particle materially and even every soulish activity of thought, will, emotion, and possessed knowledge that forms the heart of man. Our trust in God is based upon this unchanging nature of eternal time that never expires or ends. God faithfully promises not to ever erase any action as if nothing ever happened sharing that His Word will never pass away even though as we now know the current heaven and earth will pass away. The creation can trust in the permanency of any action committed past as further acts are committed in the present over time future. While God Himself may be beyond time ^[2], His Creation of His Kingdom we affectionately call Heaven will always and forever possess a past that those in the present can look back upon in view as they anticipate God’s blessing future. The Bible nowhere promises a timeless existence for His Creation no more than it promises no existing matter in streets of gold or no existing space in the New Jerusalem as a cube of 1500 miles dimension as home of the Lord's bride. Do not forget how the present praise of our God future will be based up the glorious riches of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ past. We will not forget the past and how we came to such great blessing!

Many are amazed that the Bible never says time began or time will end^[3] in the many copies of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts discovered no more than it never says space and matter will cease to exist. The verses used were manipulated by translator bias to the idea of timelessness because of the popular view of the day often based in the hope of establishing a Christian kingdom on earth and even political control of the masses to the State’s will by religion. Thus man currently holds this idea of timelessness in mistranslation toward errant ideas of fleshly fulfillment and not the inspired Holy Spirit.

This world's near universal misunderstanding of everlasting time causes many to never think about the eternal creativeness of the one and only "everlasting to everlasting" God. As such more are blinded to the purpose of the present darkness,the present heavenly partition of the Tabernacle not made with hands as pictured by the earthly Tabernacle, the purpose of man in redemption, and the current creation's ever present testimony of God's "eternal power." Even now we hear drum beats on airways and in literature of popular Christian teaching calling for fellowship with only those who blindly paint our Eternal Father as a short term inexperienced novice who has had mainly major failures within His design. In hopes of consolidating a Christian worldly power and positional base these unnecessarily divide the portion of the forming church now on earth over a false myth not supported in complete harmony of all knowledge of Scripture and existing creation.

In God's purpose of creation man will eventually rule all God's creation in dominion but only in that Kingdom to come in the New Heaven, New Earth and New Jerusalem. Often forgotten is a fallen angel named Satan ruled this present dark world when man was created and even offered it to the Son of God when He came as man. The plan of Jesus is not a dominion in a kingdom of this world by Christian religion...but a new Kingdom to come far different than this expanded dark provisional earth. We now live as inviting representative ambassadors rather than conquering militants to Christ's ways - a living light as examples of the Light to come instead of forced domination. This hope is faith and one who lives by faith patterns all of his life after that world currently now unseen in heaven. Such example is true worship the Father in heaven seeks. Read again the theme verse of the picture of the coming Christ above.

More of this beautiful loving story is expanded in chapters and articles of the sections The Heavens on the Menu above. These also address many popular Christian based myths - ideas told so long they are believed to be true without challenge. Yet these have no valid Holy Spirit breathed Scripture to support there claim. More often than not they point people to the false idea of a heaven on this perishing world rather than focus on that new Kingdom to come. James called such friendship an adulterous relationship (James 4:4). We here attempt to expose many of these fables and provide embedded inspired Scripture for your consideration of each thing taught. We ask that you test the spirits (1 John 4:1) to see if they be of God and please notify us when our teaching does not harmonize with all of God's Word. Several over the years of internet posting have influenced some important changes already. Your discussion is thus welcome as we attempt to place God's promises in clearer focus.

May this Web site Ministry help us to see more clearly in faith as those who died of old saw it as we study together God's Word about this unbelievable Kingdom of promise. It will not be long until the Lord returns in the "Day of the Lord" to fulfill more than a 1000 years of promises to Israel. Our gathering early in "that day" does not mark the finish of God's seven day redemptive plan but the initiation of the final act where the Lord spends 1000 years harvesting the earth in righteousness. The same Bible we have now that speaks prophetically today of God's future will be taught by heavenly citizens to Israel at Jerusalem to share still yet future prophetic promises with the world. It is at the end of this evil age in present earth destruction that believing citizens finally come to that heavenly country of promise. As the Apostle John remarked "even so come quickly Lord Jesus."

Ephesians 1:15–23 15 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. (NASB95) Grace and Peace,

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Endnotes

^[1] Grudem, Wayne A. Systematic Theology : An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. (Leicester, England; Grand Rapids, MiI: Inter-Varsity Press; Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), 266. ^[2]Ibid., 169. ^[3]Henry, C. F. H. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. s.v. "time.", 1201, 2nd ed. Baker Reference Library. (Grand Rapids, MI. Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K.: Baker Academic; Paternoster Press, 2001).

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