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People will faint from fear and expectation of the things that are coming on the world, because the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

He said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.

He exercised this power in Christ by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens—

He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus,

This is so that God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

The one who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, to fill all things.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to our confession.

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.

They deliberately overlook this: By the word of God the heavens came into being long ago and the earth was brought about from water and through water.

By the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.

as you wait for the day of God and hasten its coming. Because of that day, the heavens will be dissolved with fire and the elements will melt with heat.

But based on his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.