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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

HEAVEN OPENED-DAYS OF PRAISE: March 23- 2010

Days of Praise
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
  1. upon the Son of man." (John 1:51)
In Jacob's dream (Genesis 28:12), angels
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"
(Hebrews 9:26). In His spirit,
"he also descended first into
the lower parts of the earth," and "when He
ascended up on high,
he led captivity captive" (Ephesians 4:8-9),
leading all pre-Calvary saints with Him
into heaven. Then was fulfilled the wonderful
scene
predicted in Psalm 24:7:
"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"
(2 Corinthians 5:8). Heaven someday will
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
hereafter" (Revelation 4:1). Heaven
thenceforth will be open eternally to all the
redeemed.
"The gates of
it shall not be shut
at all by day: for there shall be no night there"
(
Revelation 21:25). HMMT
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