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Know Your Bible from A to Z: A Quick Handbook to the People, Places, and Things is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bestselling author Jim George helps readers gain a wider and richer understanding of the Bible. Included are more than 150 carefully selected topics that provide fascinating insights about important historical events, interesting customs and cultural practices, and significant people and places. What makes this book especially helpful is that the vast majority of the topics include personal...

In the Bible, the phrase “the heavens and the earth” describes the entire universe, as in Genesis 1:1. According to biblical understanding, there are three heavens. The first two are visible, and the third is invisible. • First heaven. The first heaven is the sky, or heavens, also referred to as firmament or expanse. (See Genesis 2:19.) • Second heaven. The second heaven is that of the sun, moon, and stars. It refers to all the celestial bodies. One day this heaven, the physical universe,