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Heavens (548 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CHAMBERS IN THE HEAVENS. ...HEAVENS. hev'-'nz (shamayim;
ouranoi): On the physical heavens see ASTRONOMY; WORLD. ...
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Skies (36 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Deuteronomy 33:26 "There is none like God, Jeshurun, who rides on
the heavens for your help, In his excellency on the skies. ...
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Consumeth (37 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 1:10 And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto the head of the fifty, 'And
if I 'am' a man of God, fire doth come down from the heavens, and consume thee ...
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Stretcheth (33 Occurrences)
... Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretcheth out his rod towards the heavens, and Jehovah hath
given voices and hail, and fire goeth towards the earth, and Jehovah raineth ...
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Stretches (14 Occurrences)
... (WEB NAS). Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of
the sea. (WEB NAS NIV). ... He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. ...
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Starry (14 Occurrences)
... Nehemiah 9:6 You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of
heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are thereon, the ...
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Attentively (35 Occurrences)
... Genesis 15:5 and He bringeth him out without, and saith, 'Look attentively, I pray
thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count ...
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Shower (22 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Genesis 8:2 and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of
the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens. (YLT). ...
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Bowing (35 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast
seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and ...
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Spreadeth (37 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:22 And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all
the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens, (YLT). ...
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Bible Concordance

Heavens (548 Occurrences)

Matthew 3:2 "Repent," he said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 3:16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Matthew 3:17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
(WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach. "Repent," He said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for to them belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who have borne persecution in the cause of Righteousness, for to them belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:12 Be joyful and triumphant, because your reward is great in the Heavens; for so were the Prophets before you persecuted.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:16 Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore breaks one of these least commandments and teaches others to break them, will be called the least in the Kingdom of the Heavens; but whoever practises them and teaches them, he will be acknowledged as great in the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:20 For I assure you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you will certainly not find entrance into the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:45 that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 5:48 ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who 'is' in the heavens is perfect.
(YLT)

Matthew 6:1 Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 6:9 Thus therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified,
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 6:14 For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who 'is' in the heavens;
(YLT)

Matthew 7:11 If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 7:21 "Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 8:11 And I tell you that many will come from the east and from the west and will recline at table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of the Heavens,
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 10:7 And as you go, preach and say, 'The Kingdom of the Heavens is close at hand.'
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 10:32 Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, I also will confess him before my Father who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 11:11 "I solemnly tell you that among all of woman born no greater has ever been raised up than John the Baptist; yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than he.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 11:12 But from the time of John the Baptist till now, the Kingdom of the Heavens has been suffering violent assault, and the violent have been seizing it by force.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answering said, 'I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.
(YLT)

Matthew 12:50 for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:11 "Because," He replied, "while to you it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of the Heavens, to them it is not.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:24 Another parable He put before them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "may be compared to a man who has sown good seed in his field,
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:31 Another parable He put before them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "is like a mustard-seed, which a man takes and sows in his ground.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:33 Another parable He spoke to them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, for it to work there till the whole mass has risen."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:44 "The Kingdom of the Heavens is like treasure buried in the open country, which a man finds, but buries again, and, in his joy about it, goes and sells all he has and buys that piece of ground.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:45 "Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a jewel merchant who is in quest of choice pearls.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:47 "Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a draw-net let down into the sea, which encloses fish of all sorts.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 13:52 "Therefore," He said, "remember that every Scribe well trained for the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 16:3 and in the morning, 'It will be rough weather to-day, for the sky is red and murky.' You learn how to distinguish the aspect of the heavens, but the signs of the times you cannot.
(WEY YLT)

Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of the Heavens; and whatever you bind on earth shall remain bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall remain loosed in Heaven."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 18:1 Just then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who ranks higher than others in the Kingdom of the Heavens?"
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 18:3 said, "In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will in no case be admitted into the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 18:4 Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this young child, he it is who is superior to others in the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 18:10 See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in the heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 18:14 So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should perish.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 18:18 Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.
(YLT)

Matthew 18:19 Again I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any matter, whatsoever it may be that they shall ask, it shall come to them from my Father who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 18:23 "For this reason the Kingdom of the Heavens may be compared to a king who determined to have a settlement of accounts with his servants.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 19:12 There are men who from their birth have been disabled from marriage, others who have been so disabled by men, and others who have disabled themselves for the sake of the Kingdom of the Heavens. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 19:14 Jesus however said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them; for it is to those who are childlike that the Kingdom of the Heavens belongs."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 19:23 So Jesus said to His disciples, "I solemnly tell you that it is with difficulty that a rich man will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 20:1 "For the Kingdom of the Heavens is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard,
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 21:9 and the multitudes--some of the people preceding Him and some following--sang aloud, "God save the Son of David! Blessings on Him who comes in the Lord's name! God in the highest Heavens save Him!"
(WEY)

Matthew 22:2 "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "may be compared to a king who celebrated the marriage of his son,
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 23:9 And call not any one your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 23:13 "But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you lock the door of the Kingdom of the Heavens against men; you yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those to enter who are seeking to do so.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Matthew 24:29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the one extremity of the heavens to the other extremity of them.
(DBY YLT NIV)

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of the heavens, but my Father alone.
(DBY YLT)

Matthew 25:1 "Then will the Kingdom of the Heavens be found to be like ten bridesmaids who took their torches and went out to meet the bridegroom.
(WEY DBY YLT)

Mark 1:10 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Mark 1:11 And a voice came out of the heavens, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased.
(ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Mark 11:10 Blessings on the coming Kingdom of our forefather David! God in the highest Heavens save Him!"
(WEY)

Mark 11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your offences.
(DBY YLT)

Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your offences.
(BBE WBS)

Mark 12:25 For when they rise from among the dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels who are in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Mark 13:25 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Mark 13:27 and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.
(See NIV)

Luke 2:14 "Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!"
(WEY)

Luke 2:15 And it came to pass, when the messengers were gone away from them to the heavens, that the men, the shepherds, said unto one another, 'We may go over indeed unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that hath come to pass, that the Lord did make known to us.'
(YLT)

Luke 10:20 Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

Luke 11:2 And he said to them, 'When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;
(YLT)

Luke 12:33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Luke 13:19 It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.'
(YLT)

Luke 18:22 And when Jesus had heard this, he said to him, One thing is lacking to thee yet: Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and come, follow me.
(DBY)

Luke 21:26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV)

John 1:51 and he saith to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'
(See NAS)

Acts 2:34 For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself,'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Acts 7:56 and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Acts 10:11 And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth,
(BBE)

Romans 10:6 But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;
(DBY)

1 Corinthians 8:5 For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"
(WEB)

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ephesians 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
(BBE)

Ephesians 1:10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
(WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Ephesians 2:6 So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
(BBE)

Ephesians 3:10 So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,
(BBE)

Ephesians 3:15 of whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named,
(DBY YLT)

Ephesians 4:10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 6:9 And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.
(YLT)

Philippians 3:20 for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,
(DBY YLT)

Colossians 1:5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
(WEB ASV DBY YLT)

Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Colossians 1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT)

Colossians 4:1 Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.
(DBY YLT)

1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.
(DBY YLT)

Hebrews 1:10 And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 1:11 The heavens will perish, but Thou remainest; and they will all grow old like a garment,
(WEY)

Hebrews 4:14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 7:26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 8:1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Hebrews 9:23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Hebrews 10:34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
(WEB YLT)

Hebrews 12:26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
(WEB NIV)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CHAMBERS IN THE HEAVENS

See ASTRONOMY; DIAL OF AHAZ.

HEAVENS

hev'-'nz (shamayim; ouranoi): On the physical heavens see ASTRONOMY; WORLD. Above these, in popular conception, were the celestial heavens, the abode of God and of the hosts of angels (Psalm 11:4; Psalm 103:19-21 Isaiah 66:1 Revelation 4:2; Revelation 5:11; compare Daniel 7:10), though it was recognized that Yahweh's presence was not confined to any region (1 Kings 8:27). Later Judaism reckoned seven heavens. The apostle Paul speaks of himself as caught up into "the third heaven," which he evidently identifies with Paradise (2 Corinthians 12:2).

See HEAVENLY.

HEAVENS, NEW (AND EARTH, NEW)

" 1. Eschatological Idea

2. Earliest Conceptions: Cosmic verses National Type

3. Different from Mythological Theory

4. Antiquity of Cosmical Conception

5. The Cosmical Dependent on the Ethico-Religious

6. The End Correspondent to the Beginning

7. The Cosmical Heavens: Hebrews 12:26-29

8. Palingenesis: Matthew 19:28

9. A Purified Universe

1. Eschatological Idea:

The formal conception of new heavens and a new earth occurs in Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1 (where "heaven," singular). The idea in substance is also found in Isaiah 51:16 Matthew 19:28 2 Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 12:26-28. In each case the reference is eschatological, indeed the adjective "new" seems to have acquired in this and other connections a semi-technical eschatological sense. It must be remembered that the Old Testament has no single word for "universe," and that the phrase "heaven and earth" serves to supply the deficiency. The promise of a new heavens and a new earth is therefore equivalent to a promise of world renewal.

2. Earliest Conceptions: Cosmic verses National Type:

It is a debated question how old in the history of revelation this promise is. Isaiah is the prophet with whom the idea first occurs in explicit form, and that in passages which many critics would assign to the post-exilic period (the so-called Trito-Isaiah). In general, until recently, the trend of criticism has been to represent the universalistic-cosmic type of eschatology as developed out of the particularistic-national type by a gradual process of widening of the horizon of prophecy, a view which would put the emergence of the former at a comparatively late date. More recently, however, Gressmann (Der Ursprung der israelitisch-judischen Eschatologie, 1905) and others have endeavored to show that often even prophecies belonging to the latter type embody material and employ means of expression which presuppose acquaintance with the idea of a world-catastrophe at the end. On this view the world-eschatology would have, from ancient times, existed alongside of the more narrowly confined outlook, and would be even older than the latter. These writers further assume that the cosmic eschatology was not indigenous among the Hebrews, but of oriental (Babylonian) origin, a theory which they apply not only to the more developed system of the later apocalyptic writings, but also to its preformations in the Old Testament. The cosmic eschatology is not believed to have been the distinctive property of the great ethical prophets, but rather a commonly current mythological belief to which the prophets refer without formally endorsing it.

3. Different from Mythological Theory:

Its central thought is said to have been the belief that the end of the world-process must correspond to the beginning, that consequently the original condition of things, when heaven and earth were new, must repeat itself at some future point, and the state of paradise with its concomitants return, a belief supposed to have rested on certain astronomical observations.

4. Antiquity of Cosmical Conception

While this theory in the form presented is unproven and unacceptable, it deserves credit for having focused attention on certain phenomena in the Old Testament which clearly show that Messianic prophecy, and particularly the world-embracing scope which it assumes in some predictions, is far older than modern criticism had been willing to concede. The Old Testament from the beginning has an eschatology and puts the eschatological promise on the broadest racial basis (Genesis 3). It does not first ascend from Israel to the new humanity, but at the very outset takes its point of departure in the race and from this descends to the election of Israel, always keeping the Universalistic goal in clear view. Also in the earliest accounts, already elements of a cosmical universalism find their place side by side with those of a racial kind, as when Nature is represented as sharing in the consequences of the fall of man.

5. The Cosmical Dependent on the Ethico-Religious:

As regards the antiquity of the universalistic and cosmical eschatology, therefore, the conclusions of these writers may be registered as a gain, while on the two other points of the pagan origin and the unethical character of the expectation involved, dissent from them should be expressed. According to the Old Testament, the whole idea of world-renewal is of strictly super-natural origin, and in it the cosmical follows the ethical hope. The cosmical eschatology is simply the correlate of the fundamental Biblical principle that the issues of the world-process depend on the ethico-religious developments in the history of man (compare 2 Peter 3:13).

6. The End Correspondent to the Beginning:

But the end correspondent to the beginning is likewise a true Scriptural principle, which theory in question has helped to reemphasize, although there is this difference that Scripture does not look forward to a repetition of the same process, but to a restoration of the primeval harmony on a higher plane such as precludes all further disturbance. In the passages above cited, there are clear reminiscences of the account of creation (Isaiah 51:16, "that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth"; Isaiah 65:17, "I create new heavens and a new earth"; 2 Peter 3:13 compared with 2 Peter 3:4-6 Revelation 21:1 compared with the imagery of paradise throughout the chapter). Besides this, where the thought of the renewal of earth is met with in older prophecy, this is depicted in colors of the state of paradise (Isaiah 11:6-9 Hosea 2:18-21). The "regeneration" (palingenesia) of Matthew 19:28 also points back to the first genesis of the world. The `inhabited earth to come' (oikoumene mellousa) of Hebrews 2:5 occurs at the opening of a context throughout which the account of Genesis 1-3 evidently stood before the writer's mind.

7. The Cosmical Heavens: Hebrews 12:26-29:

In the combination "new heavens and a new earth," the term "heavens" must therefore be taken in the sense imposed upon it by the story of creation, where "heavens" designates not the celestial habitation of God, but the cosmical heavens, the region of the supernal waters, sun moon and stars. The Bible nowhere suggests that there is anything abnormal or requiring renewal in God's dwelling-place (Hebrews 9:23 is of a different import). In Revelation 21, where "the new heaven and the new earth" appear, it is at the same time stated that the new Jerusalem comes down from God out of heaven (compare 21:1, 2, 10). In Hebrews 12:26-28 also the implication is that only the lower heavens are subject to renewal. The "shaking" that accompanies the new covenant and corresponds to the shaking of the law-giving at Sinai, is a shaking of "not the earth only, but also the heaven." This shaking, in its reference to heaven as well as to earth, signifies a removal of the things shaken. But from the things thus shaken and removed (including heaven), the writer distinguishes "those things which are not shaken," which are destined to remain, and these are identified with the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God, however, according to the general trend of the teaching of the epistle, has its center in the heavenly world. The words "that have been made," in 12:27, do not assign their created character as the reason why heaven and earth can be shaken, an exegesis which would involve us in the difficulty that among that which remains there is something uncreated besides God; the true construction and correct paraphrase are: "as of things that were made with the thought in the mind of God that those things which cannot be shaken may remain," i.e. already at creation God contemplated an unchangeable universe as the ultimate, higher state of things.

8. Palingenesis: Matthew 19:28:

In Matthew 19:28 the term palingenesia marks the world-renewing as the renewal of an abnormal state of things. The Scripture teaching, therefore, is that around the center of God's heaven, which is not subject to deterioration or renewal, a new cosmical heaven and a new earth will be established to be the dwelling-place of the eschatological humanity. The light in which the promise thus appears reminds us that the renewed kosmos, earth as well as cosmical heavens, is destined to play a permanent (not merely provisional, on the principle of chiliasm) part in the future life of the people of God. This is in entire harmony with the prevailing Biblical representation, not only in the Old Testament but likewise in the New Testament (compare Matthew 5:5 Hebrews 2:5), although in the Fourth Gospel and in the Pauline Epistles the emphasis is to such an extent thrown on the heaven-centered character of the future life that the role to be played in it by the renewed earth recedes into the background. Revelation, on the other hand, recognizes this element in its imagery of "the new Jerus" coming down from God out of heaven upon earth.

9. A Purified Universe:

That the new heavens and the new earth are represented as the result of a "creation" does not necessarily involve a production ex nihilo. The terms employed in 2 Peter 3:6-13 seem rather to imply that the renewal will out of the old produce a purified universe, whence also the catastrophe is compared to that of the Deluge. As then the old world perished by water and the present world arose out of the flood, so in the end-crisis "the heavens shall be dissolved by fire and the elements melt with fervent heat," to give rise to the new heaven and the new earth in which righteousness dwells. The term palingenesia (Matthew 19:28) points to renewal, not to creation de novo. The Talmud also teaches that the world will pass through a process of purification, although at the same time it seems to break up the continuity between this and the coming world by the fantastic assumption that the new heavens and the new earth of Isaiah 65:17 were created at the close of the Hexemeron of Genesis 1. This was inferred from the occurrence of the article in Isaiah 66:22, "the new heavens and the new earth."

Geerhardus Vos

NEW HEAVENS

See HEAVENS, NEW.

SIGNS OF THE HEAVENS

See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 4.

Greek

3772. ouranos -- heaven
... Transliteration: ouranos Phonetic Spelling: (oo-ran-os') Short Definition: the sky,
the heaven Definition: heaven, (a) the visible heavens: the atmosphere, the ...
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2014. epiphaino -- to show forth, ie to appear
... epiphaino Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-fah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I appear, shine
upon Definition: I appear (as of a light in the heavens or from the heavens ...
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761. asaleutos -- unmoved
... [Heb 12:26b-28b prophesies the coming of "the new heavens and the new earth"
for the New Jerusalem.]. Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. ...
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5310. hupsistos -- highest, most high
... Superlative from the base of hupsos; highest, ie (masculine singular) the Supreme
(God), or (neuter plural) the heavens -- most high, highest. see GREEK hupsos. ...
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935. basileus -- a king
... Cognate: 935 -- a (sovereign); often referring to Christ who is "the King of kings"
(Rev 19:16), ie King over the Kingdom of the heavens (God). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8065. shamayin -- heavens
... 8064, 8065. shamayin. 8066 . heavens. Transliteration: shamayin Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-mah'-yin) Short Definition: heaven. Word ...
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8064. shamayim -- heaven, sky
... heaven, sky NASB Word Usage astrologers* (1), compass (1), earth (1), heaven (191),
heaven and the highest (2), heaven and the highest heavens (1), heaven of ...
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5906. Ayish -- (a constellation) perhaps Great Bear
... Arcturus. Or Ash {awsh}; from uwsh; the constellation of the Great Bear (perhaps
from its migration through the heavens) -- Arcturus. see HEBREW uwsh. ...
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4791. marom -- height
... Word Origin from rum Definition height NASB Word Usage above* (1), exalted (1),
exalted places (1), haughtily (2), heaven (1), heavens (1), height (4), heights ...
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Library

The Copies of Things in the Heavens
... THE BOOK OF EXODUS THE COPIES OF THINGS IN THE HEAVENS. 'And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying, 2. On the first day of the first ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the copies of things in.htm

The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth
... Sermon III The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth. The Shaking of the Heavens
and the Earth ... and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea,. ...
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The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth (Preached at the Chapel ...
... SERMON VI. THE SHAKING OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH (Preached at the Chapel
Royal, Whitehall.). HEBREWS XII.26-29. But now he hath ...
/.../kingsley/the water of life and other sermons/sermon vi the shaking of.htm

The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth.
... SERMON VIII. THE SHAKING OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. HEBREWS XII.26-29.
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. ...
/.../kingsley/westminster sermons/sermon viii the shaking of.htm

The Heavens Declare the Glory of God. --Ps. xix.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN XV. The Heavens declare the Glory of God."Ps. ... The Heavens declare
the Glory of God."Psalm 19.p>. Thy glory, Lord, the heavens declare,. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn xv the heavens declare.htm

Whether Christ Ascended Above all the Heavens?
... OF THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST (SIX ARTICLES) Whether Christ ascended above all the
heavens? ... Therefore Christ did not ascend above all the heavens. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ ascended above all.htm

The Heavens and the Earth Serve You
... THE SECOND CENTURY 78 The Heavens and the Earth serve you. The Heavens
and the Earth serve you, not only in shewing unto you your ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/78 the heavens and the.htm

The Final Conflict and Heaven the New Heavens and New Earth.
... The Final Conflict and Heaven The new Heavens and new Earth. XI. The new Heavens
and new Earth. 8,6,8,6. Herzlich thut mich erfreuen. [406]J. Walther.1557. ...
/.../the final conflict and heaven 12.htm

That the Heaven of Heavens was an Intellectual Creature, but that ...
... Chapter IX."That the Heaven of Heavens Was an Intellectual Creature, But that the
Earth Was Invisible and Formless Before the Days that It Was Made. ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter ix that the heaven of.htm

Letters, Symbols of the Heavens.
... Book VI. Chapter XLIII"Letters, Symbols of the Heavens. He has, however,
employed the instrumentality of the aggregate of the ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xliiiletters symbols of the.htm

Subtopics

Heavens

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Darkness at the Crucifixion

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Dew on Gideon's Fleece

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Dew, Copious

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Elijah's Prayer

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Fire from Heaven at Elijah's Command

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Fire from Heaven Upon the Cities of the Plain

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Plagues of Hail, and Thunder, and Lightning in Egypt

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Rain Confuses the Philistine Army

Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Rain in Answer to Samuel's Prayer