Heaven, Part 2: Pictures of Paradise
October 19, 2025 / Pastor Tom Van Kempen / Oxford Assembly of GodLuke 23:43 (NKJV) Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.
I. is a picture of paradise
1. A place of
2. A place of
3. The place of
II. The “” is a picture of paradise
1. A place of natural
2. A place of created
3. A place of fulfilling
Revelation 2:7 (NKJV) To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God
III. The are a picture of paradise
2 Corinthians 12:1-2 (NKJV) It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: 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.
1. The first heaven is the
2. The second heaven is the
3. The third heaven is called
2 Corinthians 2:3-4 (NKJV) And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— how he was caught up into Paradise
4. The is yet to come