knoweth), such an one caught up even to the third heaven" (II Cor. 12:2). 3. JOHN THE REVELATOR-"After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;" (Rev. 4: 1, 2). The Witness of Christ THE LORD JESUS CHRIST assures us that heaven is a place: "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you" (John 14:2). He mentions, for the first time, that a place is being prepared beyond this world for His own. Likewise His own are being prepared for this place: "giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;" (Col. 1:12). John Newton expressed the thinking of the Christian in this connection: "I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I want to be; I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am." At the World Council of Churches-August 1954 in Evanston, Illinois-the Rev. E. Clifford Urwin of Lon don, England stated, according to a newspaper reporter, "Where heaven, hell and purgatory are, I don't know. No one can say." This contradicts the clear statement of Christ. The fact that I do not know the direction of Pocatello, Idaho, that I have not seen it on the map, neither have I been there, does not prove-in any re spect-that it is not a place. The Lord Jesus Christ gave His disciples something new when He pointed them to a place beyond the smog and suffering of this earth. 6
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