| Heaven Opened March 23, 2010 "And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the
angels of God ascending and descending - upon the Son of man." (John 1:51)
were ascending and descending on a great ladder between earth and heaven. Christ promised a future reality in which He Himself would be the ladder to the opened heaven. But that was to be "hereafter." Until Christ cameto die and rise again,heaven was closed, for nothing unclean could enter there and death had "passed upon all men,for that all have sinned"
(Romans 5:12). Even those who died in faith could only be "comforted" in "Abraham's bosom" deep "in the heart of the earth" because "it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins" Then Christ died and rose again "to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself" "he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth," and "when He
ascended up on high, leading all pre-Calvary saints with Him into heaven. Then was fulfilled the wonderful scene "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." Since that wonderful day when Christ ascended back to heaven, "to be absent from the body" is "to be present with the Lord" even receive our resurrected bodies. John prophesied it this way: "I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice . . . said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be thenceforth will be open eternally to all the
redeemed. "The gates of it shall not be shut | 
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