Where Is God?
Carolyn Evans
When you read the title, you
probably thought, God is omnipresent. Of course you would be correct. This teaching is not to diminish his
omnipresence, but to explain, from a biblical standpoint, the place of his
throne room. Some Christians think of
God as being somewhere beyond the planets and when they pray, they think He is
very far away even though they have God the Holy Spirit living within
them. I wondered where God was until I
read Isaiah 40:21-22. I first had a revelation
of this verse over 20 years ago, but this is the first time I have written
anything about it.
Isa 40:21-22
21 Have you
not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are
like grasshoppers, who
stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to
dwell in. (NKJV)
Where does God sit, in
heaven! Who are the inhabitants of the
earth, we are! God and heaven are in the
spiritual world and we on earth are in the physical world. God can see us, but we can
not see Him.
Let’s think about how high
you would have to be to see the inhabitants of the earth the size of grasshoppers. First, if you stood on top of your house and
saw your neighbor, would he be the size of a grasshopper, of course not. On the other hand, if you were in an airplane
looking down as the plane was ascending to reach a certain altitude there would
be a point where houses would be the size of grasshoppers. So you had gone too high. So some place between the top of your house
and below the normal flying altitude of most aircrafts is heaven.
Let’s look at some more
scripture.
Isa 14:12-14
12 "How you are fallen from
heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you
who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
on the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' (NKJV)
Satan is saying he will
ascend into heaven, above God. So where
is he going, above the heights of the clouds or heaven.
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the
wicked. The LORD has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.
(NKJV)
The clouds are the dust of
His feet, so heaven is in the clouds.
Some say when clouds are mentioned in the bible, it is referring to Heb
12:1. I don’t think God would say the
men He is referring to in Hebrews are the dust of His feet.
Heb 12:1
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let
us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (NKJV)
Ps 147:7-8
7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving;
sing praises on the harp to our God,
8 who covers the heavens with
clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the
mountains. (NKJV)
God covers the heavens with
clouds.
Matt 26:64
Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you,
hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power,
and coming on the clouds of heaven."
(NKJV)
Mark 13:26
"Then they will see the Son of Man coming
in the clouds with great power and glory. (NKJV)
Mark 14:62
And Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the
right hand of the Power, and coming
with the clouds of heaven." (NKJV)
These verses refer to Jesus
coming on clouds, in clouds, or with clouds.
Once you start to grasp the idea that Heaven is somewhere close to the
clouds, all of these verses have a deeper meaning.
Matt 24:29-30
29 "Immediately after the
tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give
its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will
be shaken.
30 "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then
all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory. (NKJV)
One day we will be able to see
into the Spiritual World and then we will be able to see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory