John 1:51

Dr. Ronnie Wolfe

Heaven Opened

This opening of heaven is a metaphor for the spiritual reality of how heaven has been opened to us both in the incarnation of Christ, revealing the only begotten Son to us, which we are to believe and trust, but also of heaven's being manifest in the hearts and lives of believers as they come to Christ in faith and follow that faith with their work.

Heaven is open to all who believe, and we are citizens thereof (Phil. 3:20). Heaven was literally opened to Steven as he was being stoned and to Paul as he was taken up to the third heaven. It is opened, perhaps, to some as they are dying and see angels and other manifestations of their future home (which things may be questioned but never completely denied).

Heaven is opened to all who follow Christ, for it is from heaven that we have our authority to preach and to teach, using the word of God, which is also from above, inspired by God's Holy Spirit.

Heaven is also opened to us daily as we follow its format for faithfulness in God's Kingdom, which is within us and will be manifested in its final form to us literally and eternally.