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2 In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because* I am going away to prepare a place for you.

Yahweh’s Creation and Law

1 The heavens are telling the glory of God,

and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

2 Every day* they pour forth speech,

and every night* they tell knowledge.

5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God,

and let your glory be above all the earth,

8 Our help is in the name of Yahweh,

maker of heaven and earth.

25 Whom do I have in the heavens except you?

And with you I have no other desire on earth.

The Creation

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth— 2 Now* the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them on the surface of the earth—Yahweh is his name.

24 Or can a person hide himself in secret places

and I cannot see him?" declares* Yahweh.

"Do I not fill up the heaven and the earth?" declares* Yahweh.

17 ‘Ah Lord Yahweh! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. Nothing* is too difficult for you,

20 For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

The Sermon on the Mount: Treasure in Heaven

19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming insect* destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming insect* destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.

14 But Jesus said, "Allow the children, and do not forbid them to come to me, for to such belongs* the kingdom of heaven."

21 Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give the proceeds* to the poor—and you will have treasure in heaven—and come, follow me."

35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things on earth.

16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who remain, will be snatched away at the same time together with them in the clouds for a meeting with the Lord in the air, and thus we will be together with the Lord always.

2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.

18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom be the glory forever and ever*. Amen.

The Ascension

50 And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. 51 And it happened that while he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up into heaven.

9 And after he* had said these things, while* they were watching, he was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight.

12 because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

7 For we have brought nothing into the world, so that neither can we bring anything out. 8 But if we* have food and clothing, with these things we will be content.

9 "For as the heavens are higher* than the earth,

so my ways are higher* than your ways,

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

God Has Ordained the Ebb and Flow of Human Activities

1 For everything there is an appointed time, a time for every matter under heaven:

15 Just as he came from his mother’s womb naked, he will depart* just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.