For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
salvation | death | angels
In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
John 14:2
Jesus | Father | ascension
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Colossians 3:2
mind | world
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:20
salvation | Jesus
Whom do I have in heaven?
There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Psalm 73:25
trust | God | worship
The heavens declare the glory of God.
The expanse shows his handiwork.
Day after day they pour out speech,
and night after night they display knowledge.
Psalm 19:1-2
worship
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
planning | life
Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal.
Matthew 6:19-20
greed | materialism
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
2 Timothy 4:18
protection | evil | worship
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 24:35
reliability | Word of God | end times
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
Spirit | evil | self-control
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:1
body | life | death
When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Acts 1:9
miracles | Jesus | ascension
Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth.
Psalm 108:5
worship
But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
Matthew 19:14
kingdom | children
Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
Jeremiah 32:17
creation | strength | almighty
He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.
Luke 24:50-51
Jesus | blessing | ascension
It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth—Yahweh is his name.
Amos 9:6
creation | God
Our help is in Yahweh’s name,
who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 124:8
creation | God
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is. Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3
purification | family | children
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6:7-8
food | materialism | contentment
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9
planning | understanding
“Can anyone hide himself in secret places
so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh.
“Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:24
God
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
Luke 16:23-24
hell | death | suffering
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
greed | materialism
While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing, who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
Acts 1:10-11
ascension | second coming | Jesus
I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
Matthew 16:19
blameless | giving | materialism
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:21
overcoming | reward | Jesus
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
Deuteronomy 4:39
God | world | idols
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 19:21
blameless | giving | materialism
So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mark 16:19
kingdom | world
Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
Luke 10:20
joy | eternal life
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2
creation | Spirit | Holy Spirit
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 3:5
overcoming | promises | acknowledging
By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made:
all their army by the breath of his mouth.
Psalm 33:6
creation | speaking
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:
God was revealed in the flesh,
justified in the spirit,
seen by angels,
preached among the nations,
believed on in the world,
and received up in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16
Jesus | Spirit | angels
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Luke 15:7
conversion | repentance | joy
Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:1-2
Spirit | pentecost
Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
Psalm 139:7-8
Spirit | death | hell
Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth.
Philippians 2:9-10
Jesus | worship | world
Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be above all the earth!
Psalm 57:5
world | worship
From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 4:17
Jesus | conversion | evangelism
Pray like this:
‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Let your Kingdom come.
Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’
Matthew 6:9-10
prayer | Father | humility
But our God is in the heavens.
He does whatever he pleases.
Psalm 115:3
God | dependence | understanding
Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:19
law | kingdom | obedience
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21
obedience | salvation | kingdom
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3
praise | blessing
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
John 6:51
bread | Jesus | body
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
Matthew 5:18
reliability | Word of God | law
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
Matthew 3:2
repentance | kingdom | nearness
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:3-4
God | sadness | worrying
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:3
blessing | humility | kingdom
But I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
Matthew 5:34-35
speaking | reliability | world