Think Outside the Boxes

Nowhere in the Old Testament Scriptures does it speak of people personally going to the heavens where God resides. The stories of Enoch and Elijah ascending into the heavens where the person of God resides have been falsely represented. The word heaven, in the Old and New Testament Scriptures, refers to everything from the ground up. The scriptures refer to birds as flying in the heavens, the breathable atmosphere around the earth. (Revelation 7:19) (Genesis 1:7,8) The sun, the moon, and the stars are referred to as being in the heavens, space outside the earth's atmosphere. (Genesis 1:16,17) (Isaiah 13:10) The first mention of a person ascending to the heaven where God resides is in the New Testament Scriptures, and that individual was Jesus Christ. He himself made that point clear when he said, "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven." (John 3:13) Heaven was where Jesus was from, and heaven was where he returned. "No man hath ascen...