Heaven:
For Satan to desire the Kingdom of God, it surely is lustrous. Satan has
seen Heaven. He knows its beauty! To take it away from God, this fallen angel
is God’s adversary. What is Heaven like to be so desired? Specifically, what is
the Third Heaven like? The Apostle Paul knew a man who had been “caught up in
the third heaven”, referring to it as “paradise”. 171 Paul didn’t
know if it was physically or spiritually, but the existence of a Third Heaven
was verified by a man who knew Jesus! Is that possible? Enoch was given a grand
tour of all the heavens. It seems that it’s not necessary to pass through the
hierarchy of the heavens to get to Paradise. It’s a short trip in God’s
dimensions of time and space.
The malefactor on the cross alongside God was promised Paradise “today”. 172
Thus, the third heaven is just a short distance when divinely measured. A man
of the house of the ruler of the synagogue brought his daughter who was dead.
God brought her back to life. Her spirit had started its trip to Paradise but
immediately returned. 173 Today that is called an out of body experience. Perhaps the girl
had seen the Third Heaven! Perhaps she had been to Paradise. It is that possibility which theists seek. It is
that reality that Satan wants. Mankind
accepts Paradise by faith. Satan accepts its existence by experience. In this
case, who can argue with Satan?
Heaven has different metrics. There is no time in Heaven because it is
infinite. Scientists cannot measure things without dimensions and time unless
Divine dimensioning is used; albeit, Heaven is real! Heaven has size, though.
Enoch, in his writings, spoke of “the sacred cubit”. Not to go into detail, but
an analog based on the sacred cubit can be used to scale down the universe,
providing Heaven with dimensions! 174 (Note: I refer to the Book of the Mysteries of Enoch but as
mere commentary. It is not Holy Scripture but whoever wrote it understood
Scripture quite well. Even Paul who came after it was written, validated the
concept of several Heavens. Admittedly some believe that the waters are the
First, the cosmos the Second, and the Realm of God, the Third.)
Heaven was validated by Paul’s acquaintance. Some believe that Paul
himself had seen Paradise. Paul wrote about this incidence in about 57 AD. 175 Paul was
blinded between 33 AD
and 36 AD. 176
Simple mathematics identifies Paul as possibly the man “he knew” who was taken
to the Third Heaven. If it was him, the experience was surreal. Why so?
Paradise is beyond the imagination, or the senses for that matter. Remembering
that with bright eyes, Adam and Eve could see the Heavens, in Paul’s blindness,
he could see what others could not see! 177 Strangely enough Paul
received bright eyes by being blinded by
God.
The Book of Genesis, particularly chapters one through four, gives a
description of the Garden, which if not Heaven, a very accurate simile of it!
It is a place without rain watered by a mist from the ground. The sun
whose rays kill never shines there, and life comes from springs below. Without
the sun to kill, life is everlasting. Mankind ate only herbs. His flesh was
incorruptible never suffering disease. There was no stress because God supplied
everything in abundance. Even the animals were docile and served Adam.
Enoch writes about the Third Heaven with these words:
Have courage, Enoch, do not fear; the eternal God sent us to
thee, and lo! thou shalt to-day ascend with us into heaven, and thou shalt tell
thy sons and all thy household all that they shall do without thee on earth in
thy house, and let no one seek thee till the Lord return thee to them. And in
the midst of the trees that of life, in that place whereon the Lord rests, when
he goes up into paradise; and this tree is of ineffable goodness and fragrance,
and adorned more than every existing thing; and on all sides it is in form
gold-looking and vermilion and fire-like and covers all, and it has produce
from all fruits. And two springs come out which send forth honey and milk, and
their springs send forth oil and wine, and they separate into four parts, and
go round with quiet course, and go down into the PARADISE OF EDEN, between
corruptibility and in corruptibility. 178
It
seems that the four rivers of the Book of Genesis which come forth from the
Garden are identified as rivers of milk, honey, wine, and olive oil in Heaven,
and Heaven is identified as the “Paradise of Eden”. Remembering that Eden is
the Kingdom of David, flowing with milk and honey partially validates that
heaven went up just as it will someday come down! Using sacred cubits, this
author has identified Jerusalem, the City of David, as the City of God.
Mankind, while in the Garden, was never guilty; that is until sin entered
in; afterwards from which he was taken out. Guilt kills the spirit. Its affects
kill the body. Because God provided
everything by grace, there was never a need to work. Toil was unheard of!
Mankind’s vocation was to “dress and keep” the Garden. Since, God did that
without toil, it seems that since the Tree of Life was in the midst of the Garden,
and was surrounded by other trees, man’s job was to dress and keep God! Adam
and Eve were to love God with all their strength, heart, mind, and soul, and
when other “trees” came, to love them as they loved themselves! 179
One specific difference, is that in the Garden, God established Holy Matrimony.
In the flesh, matrimony became oftentimes unholy. Hence, in Heaven mankind will
not be given in marriage for there is no need to multiply. Mankind’s greatest pleasure,
and his shame, is intercourse, and in Heaven, none will be tempted, and sex
will be obsolete! 180
It seems that sexual pleasure is serving oneself, and clouds mankind’s
bright eyes. Satan wants Heaven to be like earth. Satan’s perception and
fantasy of Heaven is a lascivious world with sexual gods and goddesses engaging
in every sort of perversion! Why are abnormal sexual practices such an
abomination to God? Because that’s Satan’s vision of Heaven! Another motive for
killing God is Satan’s desire to establish the law of sin in the new Kingdom of
Lucifer. Adulterers, fornicators, incestuous people, and such further Satan’s
vision. Sinners are mutineers from their Father who serve in Satan’s army.
Sinners kill God! Sinners desire Heaven to be more like earth than the Kingdom
of God. Why else would God’s creatures prefer to serve another master?
171 ibid; 2 Cor 12:1-3
172 ibid; Luke 22:43
173 ibid; Luke 8:55
174 http://www.reach-unlimited.com/p/1021265722/the-sacred-cubit--divine-measurements-as-threedimensional-math
176 Bromiley, Geoffrey
William (1979). International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia: A-D (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (W.B.Eerdmans)). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 689.
177 Holy Bible; Acts 13:11
178 Book of the Secrets of Enoch 1:10,
8:3,6
179 ibid; Mark 12:30-32
180 ibid; Mat 22:30
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