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Season 6 Podcast 2 Book of Revelation “Opening of the Seven Seals, R, Chapter 15:5-8 D “The Temple.”

January 03, 2025 • Ronald

Season 6 Podcast 2 Book of Revelation “Opening of the Seven Seals, R, Chapter 15:5-8 D “The Temple.”

In 1 Corinthians 15, the Apostle Paul spoke of three heavens.

1 Corinthians 15:40-41

“There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.”

The Celestial glory is the highest kingdom of glory where God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ, live. Paul speaks of it as the third heaven.

2 Corinthians 12:1-4

“It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”

Paul refers to the third heaven as Paradise. Paul fixed in the Christian mind the word Paradise as the greatest of all heavens to achieve. In this context the term Celestial glory and Paradise are used synonymously. In another scripture the term Paradise is used in a different context. On the cross the Savior, speaking to the thief beside him who defended him against the other taunting thief, said.

Luke 23:39-43

“And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”

We know that was not the Celestial Kingdom for even after his resurrection from the dead, Jesus said to Mary Magdalene at his sepulcher.

John 20:16-17

“Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”

So where did Christ meet the thief on the cross. The Apostle Peter tells us.

1 Peter 3:18-20

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

The spirit world then is also called Paradise. Christ went to the spirit world before his resurrection and while his body still lay in the tomb. Peter explains why.

1 Peter 4:5-6

“Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.”