Heaven is a spiritual place: how does it have one end to the other?
You can even say heaven is so big and endless, how can there be one end to the other.
The answer is easy. When Matthew wrote the angels will gather His elects from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other ~ Matthew 24:31. He's referring to all those in heaven spread throughout heaven in over all 4 cardinal points. While heaven can be unlimited in space and time, the number of elects being gathered at that future time is not unlimited.
Classical compass winds
In the ancient Mediterranean world, the classical compass winds were names for the points of geographic direction and orientation, in association with the winds as conceived of by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Ancient wind roses typically had twelve winds and thus twelve points of orientation, sometimes reduced to eight or increased to twenty-four.
Classical compass winds - Wikipedia
What does the Bible mean when it refers to the four winds?
Wind is frequently used in the Bible as a metaphor for some spiritual truth (e.g., Psalm 78:39 and Jeremiah 22:22). This holds true when the Bible refers to the “four winds.” The phrase “four winds” is used principally to describe the whole of the earth or heaven. The “four winds” encompass all directions or the “four corners” of the earth: north, south, east, and west (Jeremiah 49:36; Matthew 24:31).
What does the Bible mean when it refers to the four winds?
The saints who were raised on that Day, never went to heaven and they didn't stick around for long, as no further mention of them is made. They may be finally resurrected at Jesus' Return. Or at the GWT judgement.
On that day when Jesus was dying on the cross, He told the thief on the cross "I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise."
Luke 23:43
And Jesus replied, "I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise."
Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 that Paradise is a place in the 3rd heaven and the only way to get there is to be caught up.
2 Corinthians 12:2-4 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Keras, put the pieces of the puzzle together. On the day Christ died on the cross and resurrected the saints in the grave. Where do you think He sent them if He sent the thief to be with Him in paradise in the 3rd heaven?
Matthew 27:50-53 New King James Version (NKJV)
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. 51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
John 3:13 is only one of many scriptures that refute any notion of the Church going to live in heaven.
Hebrews 12:18-29 New King James Version (NKJV)
18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling."
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
At the sound of a trumpet (Hebrews 12:19), the church of the firstborn (Hebrews 12:23) are seen in heaven (Hebrews 12:22-24) just before God commences the tribulation (Hebrews 12:26) and destroys the earth with fire (Hebrews 12:29).
See the word church in verse 23?
The rapture is clearly Pre-Trib and the church is seen in heaven just before the tribulation.
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