Thematic Bible: Heavenly
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The call of God » To man is » Heavenly
Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.
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Heavenly » Multitude » Praise
And immediately there was with the angel a multitude of the army of Heaven praising God and saying, "Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!"
And they were singing what seemed to be a new song, in front of the throne and in the presence of the four living creatures and the Elders; and no one was able to learn that song except the 144,000 people who had been redeemed out of the world.
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saying, "We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Ruler of all, Who art and wast, because Thou hast exerted Thy power, Thy great power, and hast become King.
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And each of the four living creatures had six wings, and in every direction, and within, are full of eyes; and day after day, and night after night, they never cease saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Ruler of all, who wast and art and evermore shalt be."
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And I looked, and heard what seemed to be the voices of countless angels on every side of the throne, and of the living creatures and the Elders. Their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, and in loud voices they were singing, "It is fitting that the Lamb which has been offered in sacrifice should receive all power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing."
All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God. "Even so!" they cried: "The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the power and the might are to be ascribed to our God, until the Ages of the Ages! Even so!"
And from the throne there came a voice which said, "Praise our God, all you His bondservants--you who fear Him, both the small and the great."
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Heavenly » Nature's praise » Vision
Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
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"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.
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For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
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and His name will be on their foreheads.
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Heavenly » Father » God spoken of as the father of all men
Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?
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yet *we* have but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and for whose service we exist, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we and all things exist.
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For there are three that give testimony-- the Spirit, the water, and the blood;
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And call no one on earth your Father, for One alone is your Father--the Heavenly Father.
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Is God simply the God of the Jews, and not of the Gentiles also? He is certainly the God of the Gentiles also,
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and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, and dwells in all.
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Heavenly » Father » General references to
You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"
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And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,
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"In this manner therefore pray: 'Our Father who art in Heaven, may Thy name be kept holy;
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If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » Host
After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes, and carrying palm-branches in their hands.
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And I seemed to hear the voices of a great multitude and the sound of many waters and of loud peals of thunder, which said, "Hallelujah! Because the Lord our God, the Ruler of all, has become King.
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And I looked, and heard what seemed to be the voices of countless angels on every side of the throne, and of the living creatures and the Elders. Their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,
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On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
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Then I looked, and I saw the Lamb standing upon Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 people, having His name and His Father's name written on their foreheads.
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Heavenly » Multitude » Origin, Christ's
The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.
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He who comes from above is above all. He whose origin is from the earth is not only himself from the earth, his teaching also is from the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.
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For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.
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"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.
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Now we know that you have all knowledge, and do not need to be pressed with questions. Through this we believe that you came from God."
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"You," He continued, "are from below, I am from above: you are of this present world, I am not of this present world.
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Heavenly » Multitude » Places
concealed in order that the Church might now be used to display to the powers and authorities in the heavenly realms the innumerable aspects of God's wisdom.
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when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;
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raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » Built by the hand of God
on account of the hope treasured up for you in Heaven. Of this hope you have already heard in the Message of the truth of the Good News.
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For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.
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for he continually looked forward to the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » Select readings
"But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » The redeemed of all nations assembled
After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes, and carrying palm-branches in their hands.
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And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth were gone, and the sea no longer exists.
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Heavenly » Joy kingdom » Endurance
Everywhere they strengthened the disciples by encouraging them to hold fast to the faith, and warned them saying, "It is through many afflictions that we must make our way into the Kingdom of God."
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For these are a plain token of God's righteous judgement, which has in view your being deemed worthy of admission to God's Kingdom, for the sake of which, indeed, you are sufferers.
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Heavenly » Joy kingdom » Sympathetic service
"Then the King will say to those at His right, "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, receive your inheritance of the Kingdom which has been divinely intended for you ever since the creation of the world. For when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was homeless, you gave me a welcome;
Then fixing His eyes upon His disciples, Jesus said to them, "Blessed are you poor, because the Kingdom of God is yours.
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Heavenly » Joy kingdom » Humility
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for to them belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens.
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"Blessed are those who have borne persecution in the cause of Righteousness, for to them belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens.
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » Obedience, the condition of entrance
Blessed are those who wash their robes clean, that they may have a right to the Tree of Life, and may go through the gates into the city.
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Heavenly » Citizenship » A register is kept of the names of the citizens
And no unclean thing shall ever enter it, nor any one who is guilty of base conduct or tells lies, but only they whose names stand recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life.
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Heavenly » Citizenship » Furnishes an undying hope
We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » The glorified Christ entered into
But, full of the Holy Spirit and looking up to Heaven, Stephen saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand. "I can see Heaven wide open," he said, "and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."
Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » A safe-deposit for treasures
But amass wealth for yourselves in Heaven, where neither the moth nor wear-and-tear destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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Heavenly » Citizenship » Provides a glorious inheritance
to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled and unfading, which has been reserved in Heaven for you,
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » Contains a register of the saints
Nevertheless rejoice not at this, that the spirits submit to you; but rejoice that your names are registered in Heaven."
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Heavenly » Citizenship » Assures future exaltation
so that you shall eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones as judges over the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Heavenly » Citizenship » A source of real joy
Nevertheless rejoice not at this, that the spirits submit to you; but rejoice that your names are registered in Heaven."
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Heavenly » Home heavenly home the final dwelling place of the saints » Room for all believers
In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.
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Heavenly » Citizenship » Promises a place of permanent residence
In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.
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Heavenly » Joy kingdom » Faith and love
Listen, my dearly-loved brethren. Has not God chosen those whom the world regards as poor to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He has promised to those that love Him?
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Heavenly » Joy kingdom » Perseverance
Jesus answered him, "No one who has put his hand to the plough, and then looks behind him, is fit for the Kingdom of God.
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Heavenly » Joy kingdom » New Birth
"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
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Home » Heavenly » Built by the hand of God
on account of the hope treasured up for you in Heaven. Of this hope you have already heard in the Message of the truth of the Good News.
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For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.
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for he continually looked forward to the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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Home » Heavenly » The final dwelling place of the saints
"But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.
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Home » Heavenly » Keepers at
industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.
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Home » Heavenly » The redeemed of all nations assembled
After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes, and carrying palm-branches in their hands.
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And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth were gone, and the sea no longer exists.
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Home » Heavenly » Duties
But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."
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But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.
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Home » Heavenly » Obedience, the condition of entrance
Blessed are those who wash their robes clean, that they may have a right to the Tree of Life, and may go through the gates into the city.
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Home » Heavenly » The glorified Christ entered into
But, full of the Holy Spirit and looking up to Heaven, Stephen saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand. "I can see Heaven wide open," he said, "and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."
Home » Heavenly » A safe-deposit for treasures
But amass wealth for yourselves in Heaven, where neither the moth nor wear-and-tear destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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Home » Heavenly » Contains a register of the saints
Nevertheless rejoice not at this, that the spirits submit to you; but rejoice that your names are registered in Heaven."
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Home » Heavenly » Room for all believers
In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.
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Joy » Great joy, occasions of » Heavenly
Places » Heavenly
concealed in order that the Church might now be used to display to the powers and authorities in the heavenly realms the innumerable aspects of God's wisdom.
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when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;
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raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,
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Praise » Encouraged » Heavenly
And immediately there was with the angel a multitude of the army of Heaven praising God and saying, "Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!"
And they were singing what seemed to be a new song, in front of the throne and in the presence of the four living creatures and the Elders; and no one was able to learn that song except the 144,000 people who had been redeemed out of the world.
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saying, "We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Ruler of all, Who art and wast, because Thou hast exerted Thy power, Thy great power, and hast become King.
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And each of the four living creatures had six wings, and in every direction, and within, are full of eyes; and day after day, and night after night, they never cease saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Ruler of all, who wast and art and evermore shalt be."
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And I looked, and heard what seemed to be the voices of countless angels on every side of the throne, and of the living creatures and the Elders. Their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, and in loud voices they were singing, "It is fitting that the Lamb which has been offered in sacrifice should receive all power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing."
All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God. "Even so!" they cried: "The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the power and the might are to be ascribed to our God, until the Ages of the Ages! Even so!"
And from the throne there came a voice which said, "Praise our God, all you His bondservants--you who fear Him, both the small and the great."
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Rest » Heavenly
and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction now--rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, attended by His mighty angels.
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Worship » Parental prayers » Heavenly
And immediately there was with the angel a multitude of the army of Heaven praising God and saying, "Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!"
And they were singing what seemed to be a new song, in front of the throne and in the presence of the four living creatures and the Elders; and no one was able to learn that song except the 144,000 people who had been redeemed out of the world.
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saying, "We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Ruler of all, Who art and wast, because Thou hast exerted Thy power, Thy great power, and hast become King.
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And each of the four living creatures had six wings, and in every direction, and within, are full of eyes; and day after day, and night after night, they never cease saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Ruler of all, who wast and art and evermore shalt be."
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And I looked, and heard what seemed to be the voices of countless angels on every side of the throne, and of the living creatures and the Elders. Their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, and in loud voices they were singing, "It is fitting that the Lamb which has been offered in sacrifice should receive all power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing."
All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God. "Even so!" they cried: "The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the power and the might are to be ascribed to our God, until the Ages of the Ages! Even so!"
And from the throne there came a voice which said, "Praise our God, all you His bondservants--you who fear Him, both the small and the great."
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