But as soon as I leave you, the Ruach Adonai may carry you off where I wouldn’t know. Then, when I come and tell Ahab and he can’t find you, he’ll kill me! Now I, your servant, have feared Adonai since my youth.
2 Corinthians 12:2 - Tree of Life Version I know a man in Messiah (whether in the body I don’t know, or whether out of the body I don’t know—God knows)—fourteen years ago, he was caught up to the third heaven. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows–was caught up to the third heaven. American Standard Version (1901) I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven. Common English Bible I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago. I don’t know whether it was in the body or out of the body. God knows. Catholic Public Domain Version I know a man in Christ, who, more than fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know: God knows), was enraptured to the third heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven. |
But as soon as I leave you, the Ruach Adonai may carry you off where I wouldn’t know. Then, when I come and tell Ahab and he can’t find you, he’ll kill me! Now I, your servant, have feared Adonai since my youth.
So will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You! How much less this House that I have built!
Then they said to him, “Behold now, there are 50 strong men with your servants. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Ruach Adonai has taken him up and cast him onto some mountain or into some valley.” But he said, “Don’t send them.”
For thus says the High and Exalted One who inhabits eternity, whose Name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, yet also with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite.
The Ruach lifted me and brought me in the vision by the Ruach Elohim to Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen left me.
The Ruach took me up and brought me into the inner court. Then behold, the glory of Adonai filled the House.
And while blessing them, He departed from them and was taken up into heaven.
But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding countryside.
“It happened that when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance;
Greet Apelles, who is approved in Messiah. Greet those from the household of Aristobulus.
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kin and fellow prisoners who are well known among the emissaries. They were in Messiah before me.
Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Messiah, and Stachys whom I dearly love.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Messiah Yeshua.
But because of Him you are in Messiah Yeshua, who became to us wisdom from God and righteousness and holiness and redemption—
Test yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves! Or don’t you know yourselves—that Messiah Yeshua is in you? Unless of course you failed the test.
Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
He made the One who knew no sin to become a sin offering on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
For in Messiah Yeshua, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any meaning—but only trust and faithfulness expressing itself through love.
The One who came down is the same One who went up far above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.
Behold, to Adonai your God belong the heavens and the highest of heavens, the earth and all that is in it.
Then we who are alive, who are left behind, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air—and so we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore, since we have a great Kohen Gadol who has passed through the heavens, Yeshua Ben-Elohim, let us hold firmly to our confessed allegiance.
For Messiah did not enter into Holies made with hands—counterparts of the true things—but into heaven itself, now to appear in God’s presence on our behalf.
I was in the Ruach on the Day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a loud voice like that of a trumpet,
And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away to God and to His throne.
Immediately I was in the Ruach; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One seated on the throne.