Heaven

Heaven is the place where God dwells in all His glory. It is part of the invisible spiritual realms, outside the current time/space universe, created by God through His Son (Colossians 3:1). It is the place to which Jesus Christ returned after His ascension, to sit down at the right hand of the Father and rule over all things (Hebrews 1:3, 1 Peter 3:22). Angels and other heavenly beings dwell there, ministering before God and worshipping Him (Isaiah 6:1-3, Job 1:6, Luke 1:19). The Bible says that believers in Jesus are spiritually ‘seated with Christ in the heavenly realms’ in the here and now (Ephesians 2:6), and that they are kept safe with Him when they die until the return of the Lord (Philippians 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10). The Bible sometimes uses the word ‘heavens’ to mean ‘the skies’ or ‘the universe’, rather than the dwelling place of God in the spiritual realm (Psalm 78:23), and it is sometimes difficult to discern which is meant (e.g. Genesis 1:1). For more on Heaven, see New Creation.