'Heaven' in the Bible

They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says:‘The Lord said to my Lord,“Sit at My right hand,

whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, it is You who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

‘Heaven is My throne,And earth is the footstool of My feet;What kind of house will you build for Me?’ says the Lord,‘Or what place is there for My repose?

But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;

As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him;

But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.’

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

and yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

“But it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about noontime, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me,

at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me.