THE REALITY OF HEAVEN 9-7-25 by Mary Dorian
Heaven is a real place. It is real as salvation or receiving the Holy Spirit. It is not a mystery. It is a holy beautiful place. The church age lies between events. It begin when Christ placed his blood on the altar. After His resurrection in heaven. This church age is when He returns to catch away His church to be His bride. We belong to the Father. Our home is heaven. Heaven is filled with the sounds of music. In the beginning, God created the heavens and filled them with music. God enjoys music. In the early days of creation, the morning, stars, angels, sang together. Music focus was the worship of God. Music is a gift from God. Heaven has gates. Heaven has windows. Heaven has bread.
The Scriptures speak thousands upon thousands of angels joyfully being joined by the spirits of the righteous that have been made perfect. There is no lapse, no timeout or reformatory or probation. The moment believers take their last breath on earth. They have their first glimpse of heaven.
Jn 14:2 What makes my Father’s house home, is your place in it! If this was not the ultimate conclusion of my mission, why would I even bother to do what I am about to do if it was not to prepare a place for you? I have come to persuade you of a place of seamless oneness where you belong.
3 The proportions of what I will accomplish are astonishing! I will 1prepare a highway for you, just as in the Oriental custom, where people would go before a king to level the roads to make it possible for royalty to journey with ease and comfort. Then I will personally come to escort you on this royal highway, guiding you to be where I am, in seamless, face to face oneness in the Father’s embrace. MIRROR
2 Cor 12:2 For instance, I know a man who, fourteen years ago, was seized by Christ and swept in ecstasy to the heights of heaven. I really don’t know if this took place in the body or out of it; only God knows.
3-4 I also know that this man was hijacked into paradise — again, whether in or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. There he heard the unspeakable spoken, but was forbidden to tell what he heard.
5 This is the man I want to talk about. But about myself, I’m not saying another word apart from the humiliations. MSG
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2 COR 12:2 I know of an encounter in Christ fourteen years ago, where a person was translated into the third heaven.
3 Only God knows whether it was in or out of the body; it does not really matter to me!
4 This person was caught up into paradise! There he heard words that could not be articulated into language; he understood a conversation that did not 1originate in human thought!
5 Of this encounter I will confidently boast because it has nothing to do with anything that I did to promote myself! I would rather glory in that which emphasizes my failure to get it right by myself! Divine revelation is a gift, not a reward!
I know of an encounter in Christ fourteen years ago, where a person was translated into the third heaven. MIRROR
1 COR 2:9 It is written: “What has been concealed for ages in a realm inaccessible to the senses; what no human eye could catch a glimpse of, nor their ear could even hear a whisper of, neither could the inquiring mind decipher the code of that mystery which God has already 1fully accomplished and prepared as a royal highway 2imprinted in the hearts of his lovers!”
10 These profound 1mysteries of God’s eternal resolve are now unveiled in us; nothing is hidden from Holy Spirit, who explores the innermost thoughts of God. MIRROR
Jer 1:5 “Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations — that’s what I had in mind for you.” MSG
Ps 150:3 Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings;
4 Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute;
5 Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin.
6 Let every living, breathing creature praise God! Hallelujah! MSG
JAMES 1:17 Without exception God’s 1gifts are only good; it’s perfection cannot be flawed. They come from above. proceeding like light rays from its source, the Father of lights, with whom there is no distortion, or even a shadow of shifting to obstruct, or intercept the light; nor any hint of a hidden agenda
18 We were brought forth by the Word of truth. Our true origin is preserved in God’s resolve. It was according to the Father’s delight that he birthed us; giving authentic, incarnate expression to the Word. MIRROR
JAMES 1:17 Every gift God freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming down from the Father of lights, who shines from the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness and is never subject to change.
18 God was delighted to give us birth by the truth of his infallible Word so that we would fulfill his chosen destiny for us and become the favorite ones out of all his creation! TPT
Neh 9:6 You’re the one, God, you alone; You made the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all angels; The earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them; You keep them all alive; heaven’s angels worship you! MSG
Ps 97:6 The heavens announce that he’ll set everything right, And everyone will see it happen — glorious! MSG
Titus 1:2 My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago — and he doesn’t break promises! MSG
ISA 65:16 For whoever pronounces a blessing on the earth will do so in the name of the God of Faithfulness. And whoever swears by an oath on the earth will invoke the name of the God of Faithfulness. The failures of the past will be forgotten; they will be hidden from my eyes.” The Kingdom of God
17 “Look! I am creating entirely new heavens and a new earth! They will be so wonderful that no one will even think about the old ones anymore! TPT
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Isa 65:16 Then whoever prays a blessing in the land will use my faithful name for the blessing, And whoever takes an oath in the land will use my faithful name for the oath, Because the earlier troubles are gone and forgotten, banished far from my sight.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “Pay close attention now: I’m creating new heavens and a new earth. All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past, to be forgotten. MSG
Ps 17:15 And me? I plan on looking you full in the face. When I get up, I’ll see your full stature and live heaven on earth. MSG
Ps 78:23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven; AMP
Mal 3:10 Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don’t open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams. MSG
Ps 78:24 And He rained down upon them manna to eat and gave them heaven’s grain.
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Ps 115:15 May you be blessed by God, by God, who made heaven and earth.
16 The heaven of heavens is for God, but he put us in charge of the earth. MSG
Luke 23:39 One of the criminals hanging alongside cursed him: “Some Messiah you are! Save yourself! Save us!”
40 But the other one made him shut up: “Have you no fear of God? You’re getting the same as him.
41 We deserve this, but not him — he did nothing to deserve this.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you enter your kingdom.”
43 He said, “Don’t worry, I will. Today you will join me in paradise.” MSG
2 Cor 12:2 For instance, I know a man who, fourteen years ago, was seized by Christ and swept in ecstasy to the heights of heaven. I really don’t know if this took place in the body or out of it; only God knows.
3-4 I also know that this man was hijacked into paradise — again, whether in or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. There he heard the unspeakable spoken, but was forbidden to tell what he heard.
5 This is the man I want to talk about. But about myself, I’m not saying another word apart from the humiliations. MSG
Rev 2:7 “Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches. I’m about to call each conqueror to dinner. I’m spreading a banquet of Tree-of-Life fruit, a supper plucked from God’s orchard.” MSG
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REV 2:7 Now listen up with your inner ears! Hear with understanding what the Spirit is saying to the ekklesias: to the individual who continues to see their triumph mirrored in mine I will give to feast from the fruit of the tree of life in the paradise of God. MIRROR
JOHN 1:51 I prophesy to you eternal truth: From now on, you all will see an open heaven and gaze upon the Son of Man like a stairway reaching into the sky with the messengers of God climbing up and down upon him!” TPT
Rev 5:13 Then I heard every creature in Heaven and earth, in underworld and sea, join in, all voices in all places, singing: To the One on the Throne! To the Lamb! The blessing, the honor, the glory, the strength, For age after age after age.
14 The Four Animals called out, “Oh, Yes!” The Elders fell to their knees and worshiped.
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REV 5:13 At that point the entire universe burst out in praise! I heard every created being in the heavenly realm and upon the earth and under the earth and upon the ocean and everything within all these spheres, declaring to the One seated upon the throne and to the Lamb: “The most articulate language, the admiration, the supreme magnificence, the might until the ages of the ages!”
14 To which the four Living Beings added their endorsement and the elders prostrated themselves before the throne in silent worship! MIRROR
Matt 22:32 ‘I am — not was — the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.’ The living God defines himself not as the God of dead men, but of the living.”
33 Hearing this exchange the crowd was much impressed. msg
Col 1:11 We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul — not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy,
12 thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.
13 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much,
14 the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. MSG
PHIL 1:21 Christ defines my life; death cannot threaten or diminish that.
22 To be alive now is to feast on the harvest of your faith! I cannot tell when I shall lift up the anchor of the flesh and sail away! It doesn’t really matter to me.
23 I am often torn between these two thoughts. I have this strong yearning to step out of the confines of this body into the immediate embrace of Christ! Can you imagine the awesomeness of that! MIRROR
2 Cor 5:8 Do you suppose a few ruts in the road or rocks in the path are going to stop us? When the time comes, we’ll be plenty ready to exchange exile for homecoming.
9 But neither exile nor homecoming is the main thing. Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing, and that’s what we aim to do, regardless of our conditions.
10 Sooner or later we’ll all have to face God, regardless of our conditions. We will appear before Christ and take what’s coming to us as a result of our actions, either good or bad.
11 That keeps us vigilant, you can be sure. It’s no light thing to know that we’ll all one day stand in that place of Judgment. That’s why we work urgently with everyone we meet to get them ready to face God. God alone knows how well we do this, but I hope you realize how much and deeply we care. MSG
PHIL 3:20 Our citizenship is referenced in our joint position with Christ in heavenly places! heaven is not our goal, it is our starting point! Our understanding is sourced in a Savior; we fully embrace the Lord Jesus Christ! TPT
2 Peter 3:13 but we’ll hardly notice. We’ll be looking the other way, ready for the promised new heavens and the promised new earth, all landscaped with righteousness.
14 So, my dear friends, since this is what you have to look forward to, do your very best to be found living at your best, in purity and peace. MSG
Matt 17:3 Then they realized that Moses and Elijah were also there in deep conversation with him. MSG
Heb 12:22 No, that’s not your experience at all. You’ve come to Mount Zion, the city where the living God resides. The invisible Jerusalem is populated by throngs of festive angels
23 and Christian citizens. It is the city where God is Judge, with judgments that make us just.
24 You’ve come to Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator of this covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel’s — a homicide that cried out for vengeance — became a proclamation of grace. MSG
Heb 12:1 Do you see what this means — all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running — and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.
2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed — that exhilarating finish in and with God — he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. MSG
Paradise-Jesus shared this with the thief on the cross. The Greek word for paradise refers to a garden. Maybe like the garden of Eden except not located on the Earth, but in the third heaven. John Wesley called paradise, the porch of Heaven. It’s a first stage of eternal rest. It’s not the final version of heaven nor the ultimate experience of Home. It’s a gathering place for the saved until Christ comes for his children. Paradise is not the dominion of the dead but the land of the super abundant life. It’s not a foggy place of spooky spirits, but a joyous community of Saints living in eternal states. We’re looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth. Until then this much is clear, dead believers are not dead. They’re enjoying the presence of God as nothing unholy can dwell in God‘s presence. Then we can be sure that they have been made holy. You won’t be sleeping. You’ll be wide awake.