A Trip to Heaven, Part 2 (Revelation 4:4–6)

• Let’s go back to Revelation chapter 4  and our study of a visit to the heavenly throne. Revelation chapter 4. The Bible, by  the way, refers to heaven about 550 times, both the Hebrew and the Greek words, that being  the Old Testament word and the New Testament word, refer to what is lofty or what is high up.  Heaven is simply a name for something very high.
• In 2 Corinthians 12:2, Paul speaks of three  heavens. He says he was caught up into the third heaven. Simply understood, there is the  atmospheric heaven, we live in this atmospheric heaven, sometimes called the troposphere. It is  the environment, the atmosphere of air around the earth, the air we breathe. It would include  also the heaven of clouds and rain and snow.
• Beyond our atmospheric heaven, there is what  we could generally call the planetary heaven, stars, moon, planets, sun, the heaven of all the  celestial bodies where, frankly, we can’t live because we can’t breathe. That’s the second  heaven and it’s an infinite amount of space. And then thirdly, the heaven where Paul was  caught up, the third heaven, is the home of God, the divine heaven where God dwells.