A heavenly country
Hebrews 11:14-18
14 People who say such things show that they are looking for
a country of their own.
15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left,
they would have had opportunity to return.
16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly
one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a
city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a
sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and
only son,
18 even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that
your offspring will be reckoned.”
Location in the north part of the universe, in relationship to the earth
Isaiah 14:12-14
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of
the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the
nations!
13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will
raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of
assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make
myself like the Most High.”
Psalms 75:6-7
6 No one from the east or the west or from the desert can
exalt a man.
7 But it is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts
another.
1 Kings 8:23
and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in
heaven above or on earth below—you who keep your covenant of love with your
servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.
Job 22:12
“Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are
the highest stars!
Luke 2:14
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom
his favor rests.”
Ephesians 1:21
far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and
every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one
to come.
Ephesians 4:10
He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all
the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)
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