Third Heaven Extravaganza: Living Under an Open Heaven

By Monica Shannon

Every aspect of my life, I relate to the Bible and all the treasures it has to offer, and I am forever thankful for all of God's many gifts, looking forward to my ultimate inheritance in heaven where the spirits of the saints are living in the kingdom of heaven. In the final end, when all of God's elect are resurrected and gathered together, spirit and new body, to live eternally in the new heavens and new earth, and Christ has turned over His kingdom to His Father, the Kingdom of God, it will truly be heaven!

Until that day, I will continue to live heavenly minded, with the mind of Christ, as I advance the kingdom pursuing God as I rest in His peace and follow His calling on my life.

Always remember He created us for his pleasure, and He will lead you to His plan for your life as you love and adore Him through His Word.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638444008

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Third 

Heaven Extravaganza

Living Under

an Open Heaven

Monica Shannon

ISBN 978-1-63844-399-5 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63844-400-8 (digital)

Copyright © 2021 by Monica Shannon

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Section 1

Heaven

From Heaven

Host or Hosts of Heaven

In Heaven

Into Heaven

Heaven Joined with Stars

To Heaven or Unto Heaven

Toward Heaven

Under Heaven

Heavenly

Heavens

In the Heavens

Paradise

Section 2

Resurrection

Salvation

My Salvation

Thy Salvation

Eden

Section 3

Righteousness

For Righteousness

His Righteousness

In Righteousness

My Righteousness

Our Righteousness

Thy Righteousness

Holiness

City of God

Holy City

City of the Lord

New Jerusalem

Revelation Chapter 21

Acknowledgments

God and only God.

Living Under an Open Heaven each and every day will surely bring you joy as you begin to see beauty in all of God’s creation and see signs He will show you as you grow closer to him in His Word and follow the guidance of the intimate person of God, the Holy Spirit that lives within us all, knowing that our Savior, Jesus, the great High Priest, is seated at God’s right hand. Heaven rules!

These scriptures about heaven are in the KJV. My hope is that you will look at each verse and surrounding verses, along with other versions, to grasp the message God breathed into the writers for all of us. He reveals his mysteries to us in a personal relationship as he pleases.

In following God’s will, you will receive knowledge and insight beyond measure, and he will carry you to new levels of height in a quickening of the Spirit that cannot be explained or ever imagined, as he always does for me, thus enabling us all to be overcomers of whatever comes our way.

There is so much more. I hope these scriptures will enlighten you to the wonders and promises of God.

Preface

As stated in the Acknowledgments of this book, my hope is that you will pursue God in personal worship as you meditate while reading slowly the entire chapter in which each verse is located, also reading the verse in different Bible versions.

As I compiled these scriptures, I would read the verse in four different versions, then read the entire chapter in the version of my choice. Since I used the KJV (because I did not have to obtain authority for using this version), I would read the chapter in KJV and sometimes also in another version as I was using a four-version Bible. The other version I felt was more clarifying was the AMP. But I found that the KJV seemed more accurate in wording, and I fell in love with it since I have been deeply in the Word my entire life, and now it makes more sense to me. I would jump over to another version if I felt I needed some clarification.

Again, the book is intended for one-on-one worship with God, and it would also be appropriate to use it as a daily devotion book, taking one verse per day (or more if you wish), reading and meditating on the entire chapter slowly, letting the Holy Spirit reveal/teach you about God, the Father of the heavenly lights.

God purposed for me to compile these scriptures for the Holy Christian Church, which needs an awakening in order to prepare for the second coming of Christ and to remain steadfast and strong while waiting as he will be bringing salvation when he returns.

We have to all ask ourselves if we are ready and living as true Christians, placing God absolutely first in our lives.

Monica Gautney Shannon

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2020

Section 1

And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him.

—Mark 1:10

Heaven

The following reflects all the scriptures containing the word heaven.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

See Hebrews 11:3.

Genesis 1:8

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:14

And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and years.

Genesis 1:15

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so.

See Genesis 8:12,22.

Genesis 1:20

And God said; let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Genesis 7:11

In the 600th year of Noah’s life, in the 2nd month, the 17th day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 8:2

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Genesis 14:19

And Melchizedek blessed Abram, and said, blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth.

Genesis 14:22

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand unto the Lord, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth.

Genesis 19:24

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brim stone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the lad, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, what aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Genesis 22:11

And the angel of the Lord called unto him (Abraham) out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said, here am I.

Genesis 22:15

And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time.

Genesis 27:28

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.

Genesis 27:39

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.

Genesis 28:17

And he, Jacob, was afraid, and said. How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of heaven.

Genesis 49:25

Even by the God of thy father (Jacob), who shall help thee; and by the almighty; who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Exodus 24:10

And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

See Exodus 33:20–23; Deuteronomy 4:12; Ezekiel 28:14.

Leviticus 26:19

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass.

See 1 Kings 17:1.

Deuteronomy 4:11

And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

Deuteronomy 31:28

Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

Deuteronomy 4:32

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like it?

Deuteronomy 4:36

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee; and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Deuteronomy 10:14

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

Psalm 115:16

The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Deuteronomy 11:11

But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven.

Deuteronomy 11:17

And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.

1 Kings 8:35

When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; and shall turn again to thee if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them.

2 Chronicles 6:26

When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them.

2 Chronicles 7:13

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people.

Deuteronomy 11:21

That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and