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#145 Should I use the word ’heaven’? Will we know everything in the new creation?

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What's After the Third Heaven?

The New Testament does give us some idea of some of this intermediate type state where the souls of believers will be. The closest thing I think to calling it heaven would probably be 2 Corinthians 12. In Revelation 6 is one I always point to that the souls who are under the altar they're crying out how long oh Lord until the end. And so I think we too when we go to heaven will be kind of still kind of corresponding with what's happening on earth until Jesus renews everything in his second coming.

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