Do Heaven & Earth Become One?

Heaven and Earth in Revelation 21

Speaking of amazing here in Revelation 21 to me. This is like Key that this is the key Revelation 21 it appears that in the end when the new heaven Heavenly City New Jerusalem it it descends from heaven.

It appears that heaven and earth in the end they become one. So heaven comes down to earth and heaven and earth are joined together as one. So I think this is the key to understanding the nature of heaven and What it is and maybe even where it is.

Heaven and earth become one because for the past 6 ,000 years There has been a separation.

Right.

So if you go back to Adam and say that's about a period of 6 ,000 years Heaven has not been here for at least that long. Was it here originally. Well, where was Adam in the beginning? Well, he was in the Garden of Eden, which is also called what? Paradise.

Okay, so it's possible that heaven was here.

On earth or.

Tied together to the earth in the beginning Adam sin. There is the separation and then at the end it's put back together. Is that a new thought for some people? That's not the way most people think of heaven, but I think that is key.

Look at Revelation 21 Verse 1 and I would say, you know. Don't I don't want to say take all this with a grain of salt because we are reading the scripture. But again, I'll just say I can't really be dogmatic on on a lot of this.

I'm doing the best I can putting the pieces together. Revelation 21 verse 1 John says now I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and there was no more sea.

Then I John saw the Holy City New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. Prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from heaven saying behold The tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people.

God himself will be with them and be their God. So the Bible ends with an indication that the heaven and earth Become one so I would describe this as a return to Eden. Okay a return to Eden so to speak because the Garden of Eden is considered Paradise you remember in the garden because that here at the end God is dwelling with man.

The Fall, Separation, and the Loss of Fellowship

Well, isn't that what happened in the beginning? I remember God walked in the garden the cool of the day. So God dwelt with Adam in Eden in paradise but when Adam sinned.

Everything.

Changed or everything was altered. Adam was then removed from the garden. He was not allowed back in and Over time. I'm just gonna put it this way that the the path remember God sent the angel with the sword of fire the sword of light To keep Adam and Eve out of the garden.

So I mean that was here on earth an angel guarding the path back in. But could you travel to the Middle East today and.

Find maybe.

Stumble across that path to maybe no obviously somehow that was taken away or disappeared. However, you describe that so it's no longer here. So if there is a connection between heaven and earth, it's.

By now, it's been completely severed. So heaven. One theory is that it's totally apart from the creation. It's always existed somewhere else. Another theory is that it has always or it was originally intertwined with the earth.

That link was broken. But in the end it gets restored the heavenly city comes down to earth Paradise is restored and heaven and earth are then forever joined together. And that's the way it was supposed to be.

Originally.

So originally Adam talked with God. Adam had fellowship with God. Do do men have fellowship with God today? No, everyone's born into this world. Dead and trespasses and sin. You have to be born again to have any fellowship with God.

But even the fellowship that the most righteous Christian on earth. The fellowship that person enjoys with God is still falling far short from what was intended originally. But in the end that gets Restored.

So when Adam sinned that fellowship with God was completely. Well first it was broken and then when God shows up, you remember Adam he ran and he hid he was afraid he realized He was naked. So before it says that Adam and Eve didn't know that they were naked and they were not ashamed but then they realized it.

So something happened with the way they saw the world and. Again, maybe this is speculation, but I think that Originally Adam was aware of spiritual things. If an angel came in the garden, he would have seen it.

Spiritual Blindness and Elisha’s Opened Eyes

But after the fall after the curse Adam and all of his descendants us we have become spiritually blind. To all the things around us. Maybe even the heavenly realm. It's a lot closer than most of us think but we're completely oblivious to it right.

We're blind we do not see it. I Based this on the story of Elisha remember in 2nd Kings chapter 6.

God.

Opened there's Elisha and his servant and they thought they were outnumbered and Elisha prayed. Lord opened his eyes. And what did he see all of a sudden? He saw that the hills were filled with chariots of fire.

They were surrounded by The heavenly army of angels, so. The point is it may be that heaven is not as distant as we think. It might be just another Realm another dimension that really is all around us.

We just don't see it. It's not 50 mile 50 million miles away in outer space. In a sense, it could be. I don't want to say it's here because it's not here. But you understand what I'm saying, okay. This this could explain how Jesus after he was raised from the dead after he was glorified Jesus could appear and disappear at will.

Remember in Luke.

24 the two men on the road to Emmaus. Jesus appearing in the upper room like the doors are locked. It says that and Jesus is like here and they peace be with you right and. Then next moment he's gone.

He didn't have to travel 80 million miles in that direction to get back to heaven. He was just in and out in and out. So that may be. And please give me a little grace with this, okay, but if I use the term Interdimensional travel, I mean that sounds like sci-fi or something.

It's like well, it doesn't sound biblical but I don't know that's the only way I can really describe it because he was here and then gone and it seems to be. Maybe what's what's happening? Either way that is I think that concept is more biblical than the song that I was taught in Sunday school.

I don't know how popular this song was. Countdown. Who knows the song countdown. Junior Church. Yeah somewhere in outer space. God has prepared a place. Well, wait a second is heaven is this place? Is it really in outer space and on the on the front of the book there is like a spaceship or a space shuttle.

Can you really get on a space shuttle and fly? Somewhere in outer space and if you go far enough, you'll get to heaven. That's not the way it works. It is Somewhere else. I'm just I I'm gonna use the term another dimension.