'Heaven' in the Bible

up to the day when he was taken up to heaven after giving orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, two men in white robes stood right beside them.

They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

Suddenly, a sound like the roar of a mighty windstorm came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

After all, David did not go up to heaven, but he said, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

He must remain in heaven until the time of universal restitution, which God announced long ago through the voice of his holy prophets.

There is no salvation by anyone else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved."

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, you made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

""Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house can you build for me,' declares the Lord, "or what place is there in which I can rest?

But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

As Saul traveled along and was approaching Damascus, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.

and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

This happened three times. Then the sheet was quickly taken back into heaven.

"I was in the town of Joppa praying when in a trance I saw a vision: Something like a large linen sheet descended down from heaven, lowered by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

Then the voice from heaven answered a second time, "You must stop calling common what God has made clean!'

This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back up to heaven.

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn't live in shrines made by human hands,

When the city recorder had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that this city of Ephesus is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell down from heaven?

"But while I was on my way and approaching Damascus about noon, a bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

On the road at noon, O King, I saw a light from heaven that was brighter than the sun. It flashed around me and those who were traveling with me.