'Heaven' in the Bible

While He was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them.

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying.

There were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

I will display wonders in the heaven aboveand signs on the earth below:blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.

Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, “Master, You are the One who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices40 years in the wilderness?

Heaven is My throne,and earth My footstool.What sort of house will you build for Me?says the Lord,or what is My resting place?

But Stephen, filled by the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw God’s glory, with Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and he said,

As he traveled and was nearing Damascus, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.

He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into heaven.

“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

“Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.

“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

although He did not leave Himself without a witness, since He did what is good by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons and satisfying your hearts with food and happiness.”

The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.

However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?

“As I was traveling and near Damascus, about noon an intense light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

King Agrippa, while on the road at midday, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.