Hope is the poor man’s bread, likewise is Heaven, the Abode of Eternal peace and tranquility, where “he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away”(Rev.21: 4). Therefore, “lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal” (Mt.6: 20). There is no entry fee to that magnificent place, but the efforts to enter through the narrow gate are the qualifications. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (Mt.7: 14). Likewise a camel that cannot enter through an eye of a needle, it is impossible to reach at the Infinite Heights for one who is bundled with the adiposity of all types of worldly wealth and comforts, unless the Comforter gives a helping hand. “ If you would enter life, keep the commandments” and “ if you would be perfect, go sell what you possess and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me” (Mt.19: 17-22). St. Peter who also spent the passions of his life for a high position was also asked simply to follow the footprints of the Master (Jn.21: 22; 1Pet.2: 13-24), without trying to claim lordship over others. Unless one puts his heart and soul to become perfect in all his inner and religious life, it is impossible to survive in Heaven against the high voltage luminosity of the Father who is perfect (Mt.5: 48).

Despite such warnings over the ages, mankind has been addicted to a life of pleasures of this plane that impedes the entry into that land of peace and serenity. As the clutches of materialism and the definition of banalities are loosened day-by-day and year-by-year, we are eclipsed out far and far away from the Heavenly light. God has been an enigma for the majority from the beginning of history. Making a comparative study between the times of His first and second comings, we don’t find many discrepancies in approach and attitude of people, except the present time having multifarious avenues for swimming in an ocean of iniquities on account of scientific and technological innovations that turned everything upside down, inviting the Iron Age of devastation as foretold by the sages of past.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me” (Jn.13: 21). His own apostle who was girded with miraculous powers betrayed Jesus for money to the Spiritual authorities that grabbed the rare chance of getting rid of Him from the face of the earth, in collaboration with the Roman Governor. The Holy Spirit, the third Person in the H.Trinity and the one who broods over the Bride, the Church, also faces the same scenario at the culmination of the time. Of the same proportion of apostles as in the beginning, less than ten percent of today’s clergy, the ambassadors of God on earth go astray in the betrayal of the church and Jesus for their own personal gains. Just as the trinity of perpetrators, Judas from the inner sanctum, the Jewish spiritual hierarchy together with king Herod, and Pilate the Roman Governor, maliciously made the unholy alliance in the crucifixion of Christ; at the end of the time, an implicit association of a venomous trinity consisting of mentally derailed theologians, church hierarchy and secular rulers collude together (Eph.6: 12) for the devastation of the church which is brooded over by the H.Spirit.

Despite schisms and heresies made the church to be multiplied till now, the craving for power and money is another dimension for the strangling death of the Bride at the arse-end of the time by one who is supposed to guarantee Heaven for us. The theologians who write theses for their higher degrees or otherwise deviate from their normal spiritual path in presenting the dogma in vivid ways so as to twisting and stirring up the accepted norms and dogma of the church that maintained sacrosanct truths. Adding venom to Christology and Triune God, an alien and pedestrian way of life is a mortal sin. Many who are in the church hierarchy question the mystery of the Holy Trinity, virgin birth, resurrection and many other inexplicable truths and mysteries by grieving the Holy Spirit. Some of them teach vociferously that there is no Devil, hell or Heaven. Heaven, in their opinion is neither a place nor an ideal haven in a particular location, but only a symbolic expression of a beautiful life after death in comparison to the earthly life. Psychiatrists and psychologists, after an ongoing series of studies for a couple of centuries, vindicate their conclusion that life after death is a free and fanciful life as the spirit is not confined with in a bonded frame as in the case of our existence here. Is it then only a wind that soothes our whole being? If so, where does the wind come from? In their opinion, it is a free and happy existence for any body after death; it has nothing to do with religion, and salvation and Heaven is only a fairytale, a cheap tool for the religious hierarchy to exploit the weaklings and simple hearted for the benefits of their own frivolous life.

REASONS FOR THE ELUSIVENESS OF HEAVEN:
The kingdom of God is in the midst of you (Lk.17: 21). A different translation reads like this: “The Kingdom of God is within you”. This interpretation, heaven ‘within us’ has made a devastating storm that uprooted all our dogmas and values that we have been teaching and propagating from the beginning of mankind. What Jesus meant was that His Kingdom is where He is, there in their midst at that point of time. I have heard people say that leading a good life is heaven which is a continuing process after the death of a person, irrespective of one’ religion, creed, ethnicity or caste. This teaching is the firework for the death of the church as well as the soul. People left the religious vicinities and started a licentious and voluptuous life of the flesh that rooted out the families, religions, league of nations and moral values. An irreligious life of the flesh that leads a carnal life of notoriety created an infernal anarchy in our midst.

A minority of theologians and cultists who don’t know the abc or xyz of chaste religion also embraced such concepts, and their influence conquered the religious institutions and theological colleges, the healthy breeding grounds for sowing the seeds of apostasies and fermented theology, where the teenagers come together for their learning. To question and challenge anything is the religion of the day. The Jewish mobs that thronged around Jesus wanted always signs from the heavens or miracles because God delivered them from all hurdles and obstacles in the past by miraculous ways. The present generations of today also demand medical or scientific results or critical analysis for everything as their birth, nurture and care are meticulously chartered under the umbrella of scientific and genetic engineering, such as family planning, artificial insemination, invitro fertilization, cloning, stem cell research, and pathological experiments like X-rays, MRI, Echogram, CT scan.... Jesus employs the medium of parables and mysteries, the technology surrounding Jona who was in the belly of a whale for three days and three nights (Mt.12: 38-41). The technology of Jesus and the technology of modernity can meet only in the Infinity because both travel in parallel lines. “Our reach should exceed our grasp or what is Heaven for” (R.Browning).

The Creator could save Adam and Eve from the peril by explaining the irretrievable consequences by eating the forbidden fruit, instead of giving a commandment not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. The same mysterious circumstance also shrouds as in the case of Heaven, its existence, location, the way of life there, and so on. Adam was constrained by a single commandment; we are restricted by the same yardstick; “If you would enter life, keep the commandments” (Mt.19: 17). What commandments, the commandments of Moses and prophets (Lk.16: 29; Mt.22: 37-41) welded with the fire of a new commandment of love prescribed by the Lord (Jn.15: 12)? Blind obedience to the Creator is better than even life itself.

LOCATION OF HEAVEN:
The boundary of Heaven stretches from our heart to the gigantic ocean of the universe; yet the Throne of the King of kings is in Heaven, allegedly the uppermost plane of the seven celestial planes (Mt.5: 34-35; Is.66; 1; Rev.4: 2;Eze.1: 26-28). Seven is a magical number that is the most repeated number in the Bible: 7 churches, 7 stars, 7 lamp stands, 7 spirits of God, 7 torches of fire, 7 seals as portrayed in Revelations, 7 ages (Dan.4: 23-25) and so on. Seven ages are seemingly pertaining to the seven millennia, symbolically represented as 7 days, 6 days for the creation and the seventh day for the solemn rest (Heb.4; 9) for the people of God. Could it be the reason for Jesus to compare Heaven by narrating 7 parables in Mt.13, (Eph.4: 10; 1Kins.8: 27)? These 7 planes of Heaven are combined into 3 main divisions. Thus we sing during the rite of the adoration of the cross like this. “He Whom the fiery hosts praise, He Whom the spiritual beings magnify (He Whom those between exalt) and He Whom the mortals worship (He Whom the earthly beings below glorify)...have mercy upon us”. God didn’t set a limit of creating us in His own likeness and image only’ but also in the model and the shape of the universe that He created: the Upper Heaven, middle heaven and the lower heaven, so that the power and Glory of God emanating from all these planes. The Lord of hosts in the uppermost heaven, in the middle ones with a myriad hosts of God and the aerial forces and earthlings, together with the angels of light, in the lower most plane constitute the created universe of the Lord of all. Therefore, the Lord’s Prayer starting with ‘sorgasthanaya Pithave’ is wrong; it should be ‘Akashathilulla Pithave’.

Man is also formed in this form and model of the cosmos. The head of a person, the seat of intelligence and all forms of reasoning and emotions (mind), represents the throne of God, the uppermost heaven, the middle section guarding the heart, lungs, lever, pancreas and many other vital organs stands for the middle cosmic world inhabited by saints and a myriad of middle order angels, and the waste and the lower part symbolize the lower heavens haunted by the aerial forces and human frailties. The luminous presence of the inner man (soul) stretches from the head up to the waste, keeping the sex organs out of its boundary. Thus, the aerial or astral powers are the guardians of the main sex organs and below. The same principle is also applied in modeling the church as a copy and shadow that was shown to Moses at the time of building the Tabernacle (Heb.8: 5-8; 9:23). The sanctuary (Madhubaha or the Holy of the Holies in the Old Testament language), together with the altar declares the seat of Heavenly Throne, the middle heaven portraying as Aykala (Holy place) where the worshipping deacons and selected altar helpers throng together and the rest for the laity representing the earthlings and aerials (powers) of the lower universe.

The neck is the bridge that connects the body and head, the seat of God’s Glory or holiness, the halo. Is it irrelevant to say that the narrow, flimsy neck is the delicate way meant to go to the Father, and there is no one except the Son of God who only could travel along that path so far? This neck is the bottleneck that hinders in our progress to reach the Father, after scraping through the twenty toll- houses in the aerial realm of the devil, followed by the seventh day solemn rest that begins with the judgement by the Son of Man, together with the 12 apostles sitting on the thrones (Jn.5: 24-29; Mt.25; Rev.20: 4) or the Judgement by the apostles in the beginning of the solemn rest and Jesus at the end of the rest. Is there any judgement by the Father thereafter (Rev.19: 2; 15: 4)? No, it doesn’t sound that way. A veil of darkness that hovers over life after death is horrendously a scary one (1.Cor.13: 12).

The legs, representing the devil and man, are the pathway that bridges the body and the waste. “He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet....He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water” (Ps.18: 9-11). Moses also testifies this truth. The lowest part (waste downwards) covers the astral plane (oyar) and aerial realms shared by demons and man. Blood that represents the H.Spirit is immanent in every cell of the body and sanctifies the entire body. In this way, the fallen man is a conglomerate, subtle product of the elements and forces of the cosmic and astral planes of the entire universal oceans. We give more significance to the north of the parish building always, while we are inside of it, despite the building facing to the east. Thus, both man and the church are the miniature editions of a gigantic universal ocean in sum and substance as the Spirit of God broods over them everywhere.

In the light of scientific evidence, the more one goes far away from the earth the revolutions of the planets slow down, resulting in shortening the time in a relative term just as the length of the lunar and solar year varies each other. Time apparently is a relative concept depending on the rotation of the planets; hence there are cosmic, psychological and terrestrial times. The point or place where time comes to a standstill is called Heaven; there is no revolution of planets there. Where there is no revolution of planets, there is no night, only perpetual day, since the Lamb is the lamp of Eternity (Rev.21: 23). “ And night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun, for Lord God will be their light” (Rev.22: 5).

THE CITY OF GOD:
The earthly Jerusalem is symbolically the city of the great King (Mt.5: 35;Rev.3: 12; 21: 2), in parallel to the Heavenly Throne, and a New Jerusalem, with innumerable mansions (Jn.14), is built to accommodate all the redeemed ones from the tormented earth. The dimensions of the city are equal. Try to grasp the dimensions; sterling materials and foundation stones by which it is built that are delineated in Rev.21&22. God’s glory shines there like a crystal jewel. It has a great high wall, with i2 gates, and at the gates 12 angels, and on the gates the names of the 12 tribes of Israel are inscribed on it. And the wall of the city has 12 foundations, and on them the 12 names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb are imprinted. The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every priceless jewels....The street of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass. There is river of the water of life, and on either side of the river there is the tree of life, yielding 12 kinds of fruits every month. Seemingly it is another planet like ours, like the garden of Eden, but not molested by the nakedness that drove away the first parents from there. Just as the garden was planted in Eden (Gen.2; 8), God planted New Jerusalem in the mammoth ocean of cosmic universe only for those who are redeemed from the sordid earth. Heaven is neither symbolic nor is the brainchild of hallucinations. Despite it is/will be planted for us, we are not told of the exact location or its explicit geographical conditions, locations and nature, just as Adam was not revealed the real nature of his sufferings prior to eating the contagious and infected fruit.

LOCATION AND MAGNITUDE:
As the measurements of New Jerusalem are given in celestial units (Rev.21: 16-17), it is impossible to work out the size and area in earthly units and dimensions. Hundreds of verses are there in the Bible to prove that Heaven is up above us. I am the living bread, which came down from heaven (Jn.6: 51), hence Heaven is up, and the earth down. You are from below, I am from above (Jn.8: 23; 11: 41; 20: 17; Rom.10: 6). Knowing the fact that the earth is rotating around the sun, scientists laugh it off as a joke, proving that there is no north or south for the revolving universe. We can put the monkey on their back and argue that it is not a ludicrous conclusion as there are east, west, north and south for New Jerusalem (Rev.21: 13). Taking into account to deflection, refractions, deviations, and weightlessness and similar other unaccountable variations, human imaginations cannot comprehend the intricacies of God’s mysterious creations (Jn.3: 12).

This parable directly finger point at the Apostles or ecclesiastical hierarchy who fish in troubled waters of today’s spiritual anarchy. “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me; for he who is least among you all is the one who is great” (Lk.9; 48, 23-24; 18: 14-17; 22; 24-34). “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give life as a ransom for many” (Mt.20: 28). Grasping the evil intentions of Judas, He hinted at him indirectly, “one of you is a devil” (Jn.6: 70; Mt.26: 24). It is transparently clear from the lamentation of the Lord, “see that you do not despise one of these little ones” (Mt.18: 10-14) portraying that their inner conflicts had sidelined one of the disciples, either St. Thomas for his sacrificing mentality for the Lord or Judas for his adulterous lineage and greed, to the gutter. The use of the word ‘these’ may refer to one of the sheep referred to in figurative sense of the ensuing parable. While St.Matthew chapter 23 is a kind of an explicit bomb against the Jewish spiritual hierarchy, an undercurrent of this kind of reproof sways all along in the gospels against His own chosen ones. At the zenith of their dispute over the leadership issue during the last supper, St.Peter’s proclamation of laying down his life for the Master (Lk.22: 24-38) was proved to be futile and shallow by the time the cock crew. For want of space and time this section is cut short, refer to the 6th and 7th volumes of “ The Abomination of Desolation” series for more details.

Living in a fool’s paradise by believing that Heaven is with in our mind can be proved to be fallacious and ridiculous from various angles. How could Jesus come from the east if His Abode is with in our minds? If He can abide in 6 billion minds at the same time, His power of jurisdiction is unlimited and unbounded by human perception; this is called God’s power of Omnipresence. Just as man is also a spirit in invincible form, God also is Spirit (2.Cor.3: 17). The Omnipresent God who sits on the Throne of Heaven knows and controls everything and everybody. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men; to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God (Ps.14: 2). Though we claim that the throne of God is within us, we are incapable of doing the miracles done by God or prevent ourselves from dangers. There is no need of a universal Last Jugement provided He has been within everybody’s minds all throughout our lives.

Despite He is on His Throne in Heaven, everyone of His creation is linked to Him by conditional reflex or sensor system. This remote control grip helps to strengthen our purity of heart, mind and soul. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruits (Jn.15: 5; 14: 23). He who enjoys such celestial bliss (inner peace) now can only be projected to that Infinite plane of Eternal salvation. “ I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him, and he with me. He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne (Rev.3: 19-21). Yes, there is a Heaven waiting for us to be conquered by our blind faith and righteousness.