Secrets from Beyond The Grave

leaves the earth's surface, the temperature in the clouds becomes colder, and any human would freeze to death. (Perhaps this is the reason for the "chariot of fire"!) The third point is that all living creatures must breathe oxygen to exist, but the second heaven lacks this life-giving substance. For these reasons, liberal scholars consider the translations of Enoch and Elijah as a myth, metaphor, allegory, or as some story that has been embellished. The answer is that God is certainly able to alter the cosmos and the human body in whatever manner He chooses. The fact that three individuals in Scripture were translated from Earth to the third heaven without any major disruptions and today dwell in the presence of the Almighty should encourage any believer that the method of catching away the living to heaven has already been tested--and it works! When John was on the island of Patmos and experienced the vision of the Apocalypse recorded in the Book of Revelation, he said, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice " (Rev. 1:10). John eventually heard a voice like a trumpet saying, "Come up here " (Rev. 4:1). At this moment, he said, "Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne . . . " (v. 2). John went from being on the barren, rocky, desolate island to standing on the crystal floor of the throne room of God. The transition occurred as fast as the blinking of an eye. When Paul wrote about our own transition from a mortal to an immortal body, he wrote: "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye . . . we shall be changed" (1 Cor. 15:52). The events John recorded in Revelation 4:1-2 demonstrate the swiftness in which the living saints will be snatched suddenly from off the earth and translated to heaven. The travel route has been tested by three men in the past and will be experienced by millions in the future.