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Sep 11, 2023 · When Paul says that he went to the third heaven, he means that he went to the place where God dwells. Interestingly, Paul uses the phrase caught up to refer to how he was transported to heaven; it’s the same Greek word used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 to refer to the rapture of the church.
Paul is taken up into the third heaven and hears words not to be spoken of. No doubt it is not seemly for me to boast. Nevertheless, I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord.
- First, Paul Defines The Third Heaven as Paradise
- Second, Paul Defines His Experience in Terms of Ascension
- Third, Paul Cannot Use Words to Explain What He Experienced
- Fourth, Paul Possibly Heard A Heavenly Language
- Conclusion
Paul in his own words defines the third heaven as “paradise” (2 Cor 12:2). Luke 23:43 records Jesus on the cross as saying, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). Since Luke accompanied Paul on some of his journeys, likely they both mean the same thing by the word “paradise.” Luke could have heard Paul preaching ...
To describe what happened in his vision or revelation of the Lord (2 Cor 12:1), Paul says that he was “snatched up” and went to the “third heaven.” Both the language of snatching (arpagenta) and “up to the third heaven” (eos tritou ouranou) describe an upward ascent. Since Paul admits to being unable to explain his experience (2 Cor 12:3), we proba...
He twice repeats that he does not know if he was in or out of body during his revelation (2 Cor 12:2, 3). He must mean the body of flesh since that is the only body he possesses. He may also not be thinking in the same categories about his body that he did in 1 Corinthians 15. In 1 Corinthians, he responds to Corinthian concerns about what sort of ...
To tread on controversial waters for a moment, we may be able to identify further the kind of words that Paul heard. He claims to have “heard things” or more literally: “heard unsayable sayings” (ekousen arreta remata). One gets the sense that Paul can barely describe what he experienced. The only other place in his letters that he talks about heav...
Paul gives us little information. But what we do have is this. First, Paul somehow (in or out of his body of flesh) was caught up to the third heaven—paradise. Second, paradise is where Jesus is. Third, Paul heard unsayable sayings. Fourth, these sayings may have come to him in the form of a heavenly or angelic dialect. We simply do not know. [wp_p...
Paul is taken up into the third heaven and hears words not to be spoken of. No doubt it is not seemly for me to boast. Nevertheless, I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord.
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. Legacy Standard Bible.
Jul 11, 2005 · The “Third Heaven” Douglas Ward. 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. The idea of “the third heaven” is a strange concept to us today that raises all sorts of questions.
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He seems fully committed to not receiving any personal credit for this experience. He emphasizes that only God knows whether he physically travelled to the third heaven in his body or whether it was an out-of-body experience. Paul say that this happened 14 years before the time of this writing.
