John 14:1-4
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
1st Place - Garden of Eden
2nd Place - Hades
Matthew 12:40
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the HEART OF THE EARTH.”
Ephesians 4:9
“Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH.”
Hades was create with two separated parts:
1. Sheol / Hell – For spirits that refused God / the Messiah
2. Abraham’s Bosom - spirits that had faith in the Messiah
Luke 16:22
So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom.
Luke 16:22-24,26
22 The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’…26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot
2 Cor 5:8
“absent from the body is present with the Lord”
3rd Place - Present Heaven
Revelation 20:4
And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Revelation 6:9-11
And when the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the soul of all who had been martyred for the word of God and for being faithful in their witness. 10 They called loudly to the Lord and said, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge the people who belong to this world for what they have done to us? When will you avenge our blood against these people?“11 Then a white robe was given to each of them.And they were told to rest a little longer until the full number of their brothers and sisters - their fellow servants of Jesus had been martyred.
Genesis 1:7
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Luke 23:42-43
Then (the thief) he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” 43 And Jesus said to him,“Assuredly,I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Revelation 2:7
To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.”’
Revelation 6:9-11
And when the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the soul of all who had been martyred for the word of God and for being faithful in their witness. 10 They called loudly to the Lord and said, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge the people who belong to this world for what they have done to us? When will you avenge our blood against these people?“11 Then a white robe was given to each of them.And they were told to rest a little longer until the full number of their brothers and sisters - their fellow servants of Jesus had been martyred.