{"id":119645,"date":"2026-10-30T07:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/?p=119645"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:07:59","slug":"what-does-the-bible-say-about-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/bible-resources\/bible-answers\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Bible Say About Heaven? God Moves In"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sooner or later, someone asks you where heaven is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it was a child at a funeral. Maybe it was you, lying awake, after a phone call you never wanted to get. And most of us answer the same way. We look up. We point at the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what does the Bible say about heaven? Quite a lot, and much of it is not what we picture. We picture leaving. We picture a long trip upward to somewhere far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last two chapters of the Bible show something else. Something is moving, yes. But it is not moving the way you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Does the Bible Say About Heaven? Three Things, Not One<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Part of the confusion is that the Bible uses the word “heaven” for three different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sky.<\/strong> Birds fly “in the open firmament of heaven” (Genesis 1:20, KJV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Space.<\/strong> God tells Abraham, “Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars” (Genesis 15:5, KJV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The place where God is.<\/strong> “The LORD’s throne is in heaven” (Psalm 11:4, KJV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also helps to know there are two stages in view. The first is what happens when a believer dies. Paul wrote that he would rather be “absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8, KJV). Jesus told a dying man, “To day shalt thou be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43, KJV). Those lines tell us who you are with. They tell us very little about what it looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second stage is the end of the whole story. That is where the Bible finally opens the curtain, and it is where we are going today. (Other questions deserve their own room. We looked at whether we will know each other in heaven<\/a> and whether people in heaven watch over us<\/a> separately.)<\/p>\n\n\n