Breaking News Plus Part 3 of the Abel Damina God-Does-Not-Live-In-Heaven Saga -By Joe Dauda

First, the Breaking News!

The president of the European Union is on her way to Israel to finalize a historic deal in which Israel will supply trillions of cubic feet of natural gas to Europe either by liquidating it locally or using Egyptian facilities thus exporting it via Egypt.
The deal with Europe is part of the European way to find substitutes to the Russian gas supply. In other words: Israeli gas will replace the Russian one.

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Part 3 

Genesis 1: God Created Two Heavens And Lives In The Third Heaven

This is the concluding part of the series that began in response to a video a sister sent to me some weeks ago. In that video, Abel Damina (famous in his own right as a celebrity pastor and known to have publicly stated that he was the one that ordained Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis Int’l Gospel Centre) said many things that were patently unbiblical and even anti-Christian. The most serious statement he made was that God does not live in heaven. He also categorically told his congregation that anyone who had heaven as their goal was basically a stupid person because making heaven was a stupid goal. I included a faithful transcript of Abel Damina’s very words in Part 1 of this series, available through the link below:

Part 2 (which builds on Part 1) is available through the link below:

I’m writing this third and final part in response to a direct request by Professor Atteh, who expressed deep gratitude for the series and challenged me to do a Part 3, although I did not anticipate that while writing Part 2. However, in spite of my reluctance to open up a very controversial aspect of the Bible by showing that there are two heavens in Genesis chapter 1, I have decided to go ahead because God lamented that His people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Why should I hide knowledge which may save someone’s soul, especially with high profile preachers like Abel Damina declaring in broad daylight and on camera that God does not live in heaven and that it is stupid for anyone to want to make heaven?

As stated in Part 1 of this series, Abel Damina was very unfair in using a statement in the Bible in a manner that resulted in the very opposite of what the Bible means. His reason for wanting to say that God does not live in heaven is best known to him and to God. But he must have had a very strong and urgent reason to want to make a statement contradicting our Lord and saviour, Jesus Christ, Who taught us to pray to our Father, Who lives in heaven. Abel Damina misused Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 and taught his people what seemed based on sound logic: 

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

His sweet-sounding and applause-generating argument was that, if God created the heaven and the earth in the beginning, where was God staying before He created the heaven and the earth of Genesis 1:1? Logic dictates that God had to have existed somewhere else before creating the heaven and the earth. My response to Abel Damina (in Parts 1 and 2 of this series) is that God lives in the third heaven and the heaven mentioned in Genesis 1:1 is different from the heaven in which God lives. I quoted a place in the New Testament where the third heaven was mentioned. This was supported by two other references in the Old Testament where this heaven where God lives was referred to as the “heaven of heavens”. If the Bible says that God lives in the third heaven, it goes without saying that there must be a first and a second heaven. Indeed, there can be no third (and there is absolutely no need to use the word “third”) if there is no first and second. 

The burden of this Part 3 is to simply show how wise God is and how, thousands of years ago, He planned to answer people like Abel Damina by ensuring that the account in Genesis chapter 1 proves the creation of two heavens. If God stated that He created two heavens, it goes without saying that He did not create the third heaven where He lives. God cannot exist in a vacuum and the place of His eternal existence is the third heaven. It is His house. It is in the third heaven that He exists. Remember that the main thrust of Abel Damina’s thesis was that God does not live in heaven because He had to have existed somewhere before creating the heaven of Genesis chapter 1. Well, in order to give intelligent and sincere people the intellectual advantage in protecting themselves from the heaven-daring lies of preachers like Abel Damina, God included the creation of a second heaven in the Genesis account so that it can clearly be seen that He indeed lives in the third heaven. There is no statement on the creation of a third heaven because that is where God lives. By apparently hiding this fact and trying to confuse the people, Abel Damina is playing with fire and anyone that knows him should ask him to urgently repent before it is too late. 

Let me now touch on something you may be knowing for the first time. It is the only way of proving that God created two heavens.

In trying to understand this delicate matter, you must have an open mind and believe the Bible. The people that wrote the Bible were led by the Holy Spirit of God and so the wisdom in the Bible is the wisdom of God Himself: it is beyond human capacity. Having made that point, I now want you to ask yourself: 

What did God do on the first day of the six days of creation?

According to Genesis 1:3, He created the light.

And what did He do on the second day of the six days of creation?

According to Genesis 1:6-8, God created a “heaven” or space (called “firmament” in the Bible) by forcing a split between the waters. The waters below were later gathered together to form the sea and the waters above is what you see in its gaseous form as clouds. So the heaven created on the second day of creation is this space in which we live: from the earth up to where the waters above begin. Don’t forget that the waters above are the clouds. 

But where did this vast amount of water come from?

And where did the earth come from?

In case you did not notice, there is no statement on the creation of water anywhere in Genesis chapter 1. Neither is there a statement on the creation of the planet we call earth in the six days of creation. What the Bible calls “earth” is the dry land that appeared after the waters were gathered. Think about the crossing of the Red Sea by the children of Israel. The whole sea was full of water but God miraculously caused dry land to appear by forcing the water to be gathered. The whole surface of the earth was, in like manner, filled with water until God gathered the waters to form the sea. This was after separating the waters above (now in the form of clouds) from the waters below. 

Notice that it is the dry surface of the earth that the Bible calls “earth” as stated in Genesis 1:10. But how about the earth itself: the planet itself that turns around its axis every 24 hours and goes around the sun every 365 days? When was this planet created? Remember there is no statement in the six days of creation about the creation of this planet. The Bible only referred to the dry land as “earth”.

The answer to the question above is in Genesis 1:1. 

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The earth created in Genesis 1:1 is the planet called “earth” by astronomers — the planet that rotates on its axis daily and revolves around the sun yearly. And the heaven in Genesis 1:1 is the second heaven (or the first created heaven) that is far above the earth. This heaven is the nesting place of the stars and other galactic bodies. It was after this creation (of heaven and earth in Genesis 1:1) that we come to Genesis 1:2 and suddenly and inexplicably saw the spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters. 

Where did this water come from? 

The Bible does not say. But the point to note here (so I’m not forced to go into deeper things) is that there was already a heaven and an earth before the six days of creation began. This six days of creation began in Genesis 1:3. Moreover, there was also water before the beginning of the six days of creation for there is no statement anywhere in Genesis about the creation of water. The Bible only said (in Genesis 1:6) that God split the waters on the second day of creation to form the space called heaven. That heaven is the second created heaven and the first heaven in the hierarchy of heavens. It is the lowest and so it is called the first heaven. You can see it by just going outside right now. Before this first heaven you can now see, there was water all over. It was by forcing a split between the waters that God created this present space (or heaven, or firmament) around the earth.

To impress a village woman who is a stark illiterate, a young man may make her feel that all the people that attend all the university all over the world all study the same course. Let’s assume that this course is psychology. What the man is saying is that every university graduate in the world is a psychologist or has at least studied psychology for four years. Any educated person reading this may be smiling or frowning because you know that there are literally hundreds of courses one can read in the university. If the young man making the claim of psychology-only is just ignorant and only making an assumption because the only graduate he ever saw was a psychologist, then he can be forgiven for greatly misleading the poor village woman. But what if this young man (for some nefarious reason) was only out to deceive the woman and actually knows better?

I find it hard to believe that Abel Damina does not know about the third heaven. If he does not, that will be quite odd but absolutely forgivable. But what if he does?

I leave you to imagine what that means. And may this series encourage you in reading the Bible for yourself. There is no limit to the way you can be deceived if you choose to trust your preacher and refuse to read the Bible for yourself. One of the most flabbergasting examples of this type of situation is concerning the revelation of the Antichrist. The Bible categorically states that the Antichrist will be revealed before Jesus Christ comes back to the world — for it is Jesus Christ Himself that will destroy the Antichrist by the brightness of His second coming. The Bible also warns that no man should allow himself to be deceived on this point. 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Yet, the majority of Christians believe that they will be raptured out of the world before the Antichrist shows up. Thus they have been inoculated against ever identifying the Antichrist. If the thief you are looking for is a black man but he someone was able to convince you that he is white, you can be walking with the thief and talking with him while still looking for him. Perhaps this tampering of sequence about the revelation of the Antichrist (before or after the second coming of Jesus Christ ) is the most successful scheme Satan has ever carried out. But the Bible is clear about it and you are left to wonder just how powerful tradition can be in making people believe whatever is popular and oft repeated.

May God have mercy on all of us.

2 Thessalonians 2:3, 8.

2 Thessalonians 2:3,8
[3]Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
[8]And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

The “day” referred to as above is the second coming for that is what “the day of Christ” means. See verses 1 and 2.

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