(GB Message)
There are many verses in the Bible that speak of Heaven as the dwelling place of God. For example:
. . . Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive (2 Chron 6:21).
Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven . . . (Deut 26:15)
In that unique and amazing place, the heavenly hosts worship and adore Him.
God planned to take His people to heaven when He placed Adam and Eve in the beautiful garden of Eden. That garden was not heaven as some suppose. God would have taken them to heaven at the right time had they not succumbed to the temptation of eating the forbidden fruit. Man lost that opportunity. Having succumbed to temptation, we have to go to heaven the roundabout way. Does this not remind us of the Israelites of old who because of their sin, took forty years to reach Canaan, undergoing trials and times of testing along the way?
