The Location of the Battle Where in the universe is this great battle called spiritual warfare being fought? Paul tells us it is “in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12). The third heaven is the throne room of God, the place we normally think of when we hear the word heaven. The Bible has the most to say about this heaven. In fact, heaven is a very busy place, the sphere of God’s operation. In the book of Ephesians alone, we find numerous references to heavenly places in addition to the one above.