Three heavens , and two earths ... enough for God's whole purpose? ...

The elegant Plan of God for mankind as explained in your bible...

Like most things in scripture , the themes you will come to recognise running through it all after reading it a few dozen times and yearning to God for the understanding that most people do not ask him for [being satisfied by what sinners teach as their beliefs, never reproving them to "every word" of scripture... never seeing that being a sinner is not acceptable to God or Jesus - because God stands for love, Satan stands for sin]

Here are some perhaps key [?] passages on the three heavens , else it may seem a jungle to unravel ...

2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ, who, fourteen years ago, whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not, God, knoweth, such a one as this, caught away, as far as the third heaven;
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4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

The third heaven then is the paradise of God, corresponding to the 'Garden eastward of Eden' since in both the scripture says is the tree of life, immortality of the spirit ...

Genesis 2:9 And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food,�"andthe tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

[ Thus we may note that Adam was TAKEN to the paradise of God, it is not on earth , it is the spirit, not the material world ... bizarrely many men have looked for it on earth, but none found it by exploring ... St Paul however knew of it by being 'in the spirit' , by meditation [ceasing from one's own thought for a while and allowing God to get a word in edgewise ]

Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.

As to the first two earth's and accompanying heavens :-

Isaiah 65:17 ¶ For, behold me! Creating new heavens, and a new earth,�"And the former shall not be mentioned, neither shall they come up on the heart,...

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your [children of Israel, descendants of Jacob] seed and your name [Israel] remain.

2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

[What then happens to the rest of mankind at the ned of the first earth and heavens... the few are translated to spirit and can manifest in the new earth, but the many can get there only by resurrection to the body ... thus Jesus made a point of showing his disciples that after resurrection he was a physical body, not spirit :-

Luke 24:39 See my hands, and my feet,�"that it is, I, myself: Handle me, and see! because, a spirit, hath not, flesh and bones, as ye perceive, I, have.]

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

[Note that the sea represents the raging sinner masses in conflict because of sin in our ways in the first earth , but the new earth is dominated by the kingdom of God come upon the earth at last , to material reality , instaed of residing only in the hearts and minds of the saints in this life and in God in heaven of course... the law on which the kingdom is based is love, and its only temporary opponent is sin..

Jesus is Lord of those who obey him and love, Satan is lord of sinners... God will take all support away from Satan, but only by means of love through his being the truth about love, that it is the only way of eternal life... hence the tree of life is in the spirit, but comes to all men eventually [spirit also referred to as eagle's wings , and the face of an eagle in scripture]

In requiring to establish the kingdom upon the earth, God requires only a few at first to act as perfect priests of the order of Melchisedec [Melchizedek in OT]... thus the role of 'priests' and 'rabbis' of religion in this world is simply to keep the masses from knowing the whole truth too soon and messing up the plan of God ...

Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Matthew 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

The purpose referred to here is getting Satan to confess to himself the desire to be the god of men [2Thess 2:4] ... a desire all-but fulfilled , by God's allowing men to be deluded for a while, in this earth -Rev 13:3-8 - only the few saints escape this fate , the 144,000 sealed [Rev 7:3-8] into ceasing to sin by spirit baptism by God [to know all truth -John 16:13- and thus be able to defeat Satan's wiles, and cease to sin, become perfect in love as Jesus and God ...

2 Timothy 2:19 ¶ Howbeit, the firm foundation of God, standeth, having this seal�"The Lord hath acknowledged them who are his, and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord stand aloof from unrighteousness.

Matthew 5:48 Be ye thereforeperfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

So the many men who go through destruction at the end of this earth because they died sinners, not saints, at God's requirement, are resurrected at the second resurrection [of the unjust, the unbaptised of spirit, all sinners of this earth of whatever religion, including 'christianity' ] , all sinners are resurrected to THE BODY ... no sinner can be translated to spirit, one must become without sin first during physical life... so the second earth is required then and the second heaven, and the lake of 'fire' , the truth of God, rains down from God upon all who still are sinners in the new earth , who reject the baptism of the spirit, do not believe God even when He tells them all His truth as He did the saints of this earth... [John 16:13]

The lake of fire then is simply God allowing all those who will not believe Him to find out for themselves if their evil ways work or not ... but God has removed by then all who do believe Him, only the most evil are left and they cannot benefit from evil any longer because God has removed all the simple folks on whom they preyed in this world... thus the meek inherit the kingdom before the evil , many fools before those who think they know and yet follow evil ways ... and God simply allows the truth to have its way and show the evil their mistake the hard way, by trying to make it work when it no longer does... no-one left to prey upon who does not prey back just the same... everyone is seen to lose by evil, not to gain at cost to others as in this world... Satan's support dwindles to nothing then as men plea for mercy and accept Jesus as their lord instead, God mercy endures to the very end, when Satan finally d=admits he is no god because he has no followers and evil does not serve him either... the prodigal son of God is welcomed home to the third heaven at the very end of time itself , so there is no third earth, no need for one , two earths is all God needs before all creation is redeemed to spirit , all have accepted love as the only way, through Jesus Christ, the Messiah who first unites Israel to form the perfect priesthood who afterward minister to billios, but not in this earth...but far from all are then saved at the same time... religion in this world has it wrong, and perhaps you now see why God made it that way ?

May His peace be in your heart, through faith in the love which God stands for, throughout the tribulation almost upon us...

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