The heaven the Bible tells us about is a part of creation. This Glory-dimensioned realm does not belong to the eternity of God before and apart from the created cosmos. Wherever we find it in the Scriptures, heaven is a place where God is present within creation, a place where he is seen in relation to his creatures, revealed to them in epiphanic Glory, enthroned among them as their Shepherd-Sovereign. And belonging to the creation
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