WHERE IS HEAVEN LOCATED? | D. OLUWAJOJU | FINDING ANSWERS

Описание: "Where is heaven located exactly? Is it up in the sky? And then hell, is hell down in the ground? And what is Hades all about?"

Heaven and Hell's Location

Heaven is defined as the place where God dwells. Since the Bible says "God is spirit" (John 4:24), the speaker suggests that heaven must be a spiritual location, not necessarily having a geographical coordinate.
The use of "up" and "above" in scripture when referring to heaven (e.g., God saying, "Come, let us go down to see Tower of Babel," and Jesus looking up to heaven to pray) does not mean heaven is physically above us in space.
The speaker explains that the earth is a globe, and "up" would be contradictory depending on where a person is standing.
Instead, the language indicates the transcendence of heaven—that it is "beyond us" and "higher in status than earth".
The video mentions the stratification of heavens by some theologians: the first heaven is the sky and earth's atmosphere, the second heaven is outer space, and the third heaven (as mentioned by the Apostle Paul) is beyond the universe where God dwells.
The speaker states that those who die and are saved are present with the Lord, separated from their physical bodies, and therefore are not in a physical location.
There is a future "new heaven and a new earth" where God will dwell among the people, which may be a physical place or the transformed earth.
Applying the same logic, hell is also not a physical place on earth.
Hades is mentioned as a synonym for hell or the grave in the Bible.
The popular idea that hell is the absence of God is refuted by citing Revelation 14:10, which describes the wicked being tormented "in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb" (Jesus). God is present in hell in his "full wrath," which is what makes it a place of torment, as opposed to heaven, which is a place of eternal bliss.

The Resurrection and Spiritual Body

The speaker cites 2 Corinthians 5:6-8, saying that to be "absent with the body is to be present with the Lord".
The story of Lazarus and the rich man in the Bible is cited as evidence that people go to a place of punishment or bliss immediately after death, rather than "soul sleep" until judgment.
In the future, the dead in Christ will rise first, and believers will receive a spiritual body.
Using 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, the speaker explains that when a body is "sown," it is perishable and natural, but when it is "raised up," it is imperishable and a "spiritual body". This is illustrated by Jesus's resurrected body, which could walk through walls and appear and disappear, showing it had "different possibilities".


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