Question
In eternity to come after when God is dwelling in the midst of creation, will there be a third heaven and what will be going on there.
Response
Since my understanding is that “the third heaven” is the realm outside of God’s created realm of Genesis chapter one, and since the created realm of the heaven and the earth exists within it, then ‘the third heaven” will naturally continue to exist when God takes up His residence within the midst of His creation in fulfillment of His plan and purpose. For it, as God, has always existed.
It is also my understanding that in “the dispensation of the fulness of times,” (and therefore throughout “the ages to come”), it is God’s plan to have His creation both grow and expand, and to be the full living entity that He has designed for it to be in the midst of “the third heaven.”
Hence after God takes up His residence on this earth in the midst of His created realm, and then when “the dispensation of the fulness of times” comes into effect, my understanding is that God will begin to have His creation expand and grow. And as it does it will expand and grow into the third heaven. It will make use of “the third heaven” so to speak, as it grows, expands, and functions in its midst.
So then it is my understanding that “the third heaven” will be the realm in which the ‘outside activities,’ so to speak, of God’s created realm will take place throughout “the ages to come,” as the created realm grows, expands, and moves in accordance with it fulfilling all of the various purposes that God has designed that His creation accomplish for Him.
Keith Blades
Enjoy The Bible Ministries
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