11 Bible Verses about Heaven, Glimpsed By Humans

And the moment he rose from the water he saw the heavens cleft and the Spirit coming down upon him like a dove;

Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.

Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

And John bore this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven and rest on him.

"Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at God's right hand!"

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. In the body or out of the body? That I do not know: God knows. I simply know that in the body or out of the body (God knows which) this man was caught up to paradise and heard sacred secrets which no human lips can repeat.

After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."

And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints),

he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.

But I tell you, you must not swear any oath, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God,

Above all, my brothers, never swear an oath, either by heaven or by earth or by anything else; let your "yes" be a plain "yes," your "no" a plain "no," lest you incur judgment.