The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 5: The Unseen Kingdom of God: Heaven, The Capital of God's Kingdom

Heaven, The Capital of God’s Kingdom

                Well, again, if these beings exist then they must exist within some sort of environment.  Even computer programs exist within an environment.  The computer’s operating system is the environment that the programs exist in, as we mentioned before.  This is Windows or Mac OS or Android or Iphone or whatever the operating system (OS) is. 

                For angels, the Bible calls this domain, this environment, the Heavens.  It is the unseen Kingdom of God.  Where are the Heavens? 

                Well, I guess it depends on what you call Heaven.  The Heaven that everyone typically thinks of is a paradise that exists somewhere in the universe.  It is like a folder on the system that contains the core programming for the whole computer.  It is like a city in the midst of a nation.  What most people think of as Heaven is what the Bible calls the “Third Heaven”.  It is above all other heavens.  It is the capital of the universe and the throne of God.  It is from this city, this great capital, that God first started creating and He built outward from there.

                Does this make sense?  Well, whenever one builds something they always have a central headquarters or base of operation.  The workers always need to have a place that they know they go to when they need to receive instruction from a foreman.  It is not efficient to have the foreman roaming around and no one knows exactly where he is.  If the foreman wanders the workers have to waste time trying to find him.  So having a centralized capital, Heaven, only makes sense.

                Does it make sense that it is a paradise?  Naturally!  God would make Heaven, where He was going to dwell, whatever type of environment He enjoys most, and He would make any who had to live there so that they would naturally enjoy it as well.  Since He has to work with all of these angels, it only makes sense that God would make them so that He would get along with all of them.  Sure, God might still enjoy pain and suffering, but only an idiot would create a bunch of hostile beings and then put them all in His house to live with Him. 

                So it only makes sense that He would create the angels so that they would enjoy the environment of Heaven, just as He would enjoy it.  Otherwise, they might rebel against Him.  Even bandit kings and kingpins surround themselves with people who they can trust will not rebel against them.  They give benefits and rewards to these, most trusted people, so that they remain loyal.  It would be a paradise, therefore, to all who dwelled there so that all would be happy and would work together in unison to create all things so that all things are created with maximum efficiency.