{"id":36843,"date":"2022-09-13T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/does-the-bible-speak-of-levels-in-heaven-will-all-christians-the-devoted-and-the-backsliders-receive-the-same-reward-in-heaven\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:13:03","slug":"does-the-bible-speak-of-levels-in-heaven-will-all-christians-the-devoted-and-the-backsliders-receive-the-same-reward-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/does-the-bible-speak-of-levels-in-heaven-will-all-christians-the-devoted-and-the-backsliders-receive-the-same-reward-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Bible speak of levels in Heaven? Will all Christians (the devoted and the backsliders) receive the same reward in heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 15:50), and therefore anyone who is in Heaven does not have a fleshly body (of the earth, earthy). They have celestial or spirit bodies. God, Jesus, and angels are spirit beings. John 4:24, “God is spirit.” 1 Peter 3:18, “Christ…having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.”<\/p>\n

We know very little about the heavenly realms. The scriptures teach that God, Jesus, and the Church are divine in nature (2 Peter 1:4). Additionally, the angels are divided into seraphim (Isaiah 6:2), cherubim (Ezekiel 10:21, 1 Kings 6:27), and the archangel Michael (Jude 1:9). More information is not revealed<\/strong> because apparently that knowledge is not useful<\/strong> for us. “…He has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of Him” – Christ Jesus. (2 Peter 1:3 BBE)<\/p>\n

Do all Christians receive the same reward in Heaven? No.<\/strong><\/p>\n

True worshippers – the Church<\/strong> of Christ (those faithful unto death, Revelation 2:10) will receive the divine nature<\/strong> (2 Peter 2:4) and sit on thrones<\/strong> (Luke 22:30). Another group will stand before the heavenly throne<\/strong> and have palms in their hands (Revelation 7:9). These Christians needed to experience “great tribulation” in order to wash their robes “in the blood of the Lamb.” (Revelation 7:14) Others will not be admitted into heaven<\/strong>. As Jesus said, “…I will profess unto them, I never know you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matthew 7:23)<\/p>\n

But some may wonder about 2 Corinthians 12:2: “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven<\/strong>.” The concept of heaven can also refer to spiritual<\/strong> governing authority<\/strong>. 2 Peter 3:5,7,13 teach there are three heavens associated with three worlds. The first order (from Adam to the flood) was under the administration of angels; the second (post-flood unto Christ’s kingdom) is under Satan; the third (Christ’s actual kingdom on earth) will be governed by Jesus Christ and His Church.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 15:50), and therefore anyone who is in Heaven does not have a fleshly body (of the earth, earthy). They have celestial or spirit bodies. God, Jesus, and angels are spirit beings. John 4:24, “God is spirit.” 1 Peter 3:18, “Christ…having been put to … Continue reading “Does the Bible speak of levels in Heaven? Will all Christians (the devoted and the backsliders) receive the same reward in heaven?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}