Where is Heaven?
This lesson takes us on a journey to find heaven. We'll journey beyond Earth, up through the clouds, high into the sky and out into space and beyond. On our walk through the Book of Genesis we'll only get as far as the end of Day 2.
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Our study of just the first few verses of Genesis revealed that time as we know and understand it did not exist until God first separated light from darkness. That act of God, creating for us a measure of time between evening and morning that God called a day, 'And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night and the evening and the morning were the first day' (Gen 1:5 KJV). We could maybe say that, God first created the concept of time and then proceeded to create the elements we associate with time. God created time and then shaped heaven and earth to conform to His created timeframe.
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In the previous lesson we discovered that God created light before He created the sun and the moon. It becomes more logical when you consider that God has not yet created a location for the sun, moon or stars to exist in. Day two of creation creates Heaven a place for Heavenly objects to exist in.
Lesson 5: Where is Heaven?
Reading through the first few verses of Genesis, I was suddenly aware that I didn't really have a solid understanding of where or what Heaven is. I think I'd become so familiar with a childlike acceptance that it's a bit of a mystery that I'd stopped thinking about it at all. I realised that in my mind, Heaven is primarily associated with where believers go after death. That's basically a place for dead people. A literal translation from that perspective would read that in the beginning God created a place for living people and a place for dead people. Further to that, a place for living humans to live and a place for dead people and God to live.
If you stopped 5 people on the street randomly and asked them to describe Heaven compared to Earth, I'm confident at least a couple of them would describe heaven and earth in a similar way. I've discovered through reading scripture that 'heaven' as a term has a variety of uses and used to describe a range of locations. That although it is a place associated with a resting place it is not the final destination for dead believers.
