WHAT ARE THE FIRST TWO?
Paul wrote:
“I was caught up to the third heaven.”
— 2 Corinthians 12:2
Then, just two verses later, he called it…
“Paradise.”
— 2 Corinthians 12:4
But here’s the mystery…
Why did Paul say “third” heaven?
Why not simply…
“Heaven”?
If there is a third…
Doesn’t that imply there is a first…
And a second?
Yet the Bible never stops to identify them.
It never says:
- This is the first heaven.
- This is the second heaven.
- This is the third heaven.
It simply assumes you understand.
Then Jesus adds another layer.
“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places.”
— John 14:2
Many dwelling places…
In the third heaven?
The Bible also says that believers will not all receive the same reward.
Some will receive a reward.
Some will suffer loss…
Yet still be saved.
So another question emerges…
If God dwells in the third heaven…
And His house contains many dwelling places…
Could those dwelling places have anything to do with the rewards believers receive?
The Bible never says they do.
The Bible never says they don’t.
Perhaps we’ve spent so much time debating who gets into Heaven…
That we’ve forgotten to ask what Heaven is actually like.
Sometimes the greatest mysteries aren’t hidden from us… they’re hidden in the verses we’ve read all our lives.
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