In our Wonderful Day in the Lord, we are going to look at the issues about heaven. We have been looking at the book of Revelation for a long time and we looked at the information the Lord gives us about the future and heaven and the eternal kingdom. Those are very important things we have looked at and we are going to look at it a little deeper now and go back and look at questions people have in their minds. I occasionally receive questions along this line and perhaps our series together will answer some of those questions for you. If we don’t, maybe you can send me some emails, and we can look at some other questions. We will spend at least ten lessons on this, so hopefully we will cover most things.
We are going to answer the question of: What is Heaven Like?
I want to begin with 2 Corinthians 12:2, to discuss even the subject of heaven. Paul says, “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago – whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows – such a man was caught up to the third heaven.”
In ancient times, the world saw the heavens in three different categories:
1. First heaven. There was the atmospheric heaven, the heaven around us, the atmosphere perhaps including the moon and the sun. That would be part of our immediate atmosphere.
2. Second heaven. This would be the stars and the planets, far beyond us that of course the ancient world saw and studied at great length. That would basically be the universe as we understand it.
3. Third heaven. The heaven that Paul is talking about here is a different kind of heaven. It’s a heaven in which we understand as the centralized abode of God. It is not a physical place . . .
