From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mat 4:17 The first and last message that Jesus preached to israel was one of repentance.      Understanding the change, being willing to change and actually changing is repentance.      The Kingdom Of Heaven is the Holy Spirit who issues from the Spirit Realm into the Physical Realm.      Jesus is Immanuel - God with us.      The Holy Spirit is God in us.      Repentance is changing from a hopeless Carnal Minded state of existence to Eternal Life and Abundant Life by virtue of being One with the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus.

Neither shall they say, Lo here!     or, lo there!     for, behold, the kingdom of heaven is within you. Luk 17:21 Holy Spirit baptism establishes the Kingdom Of Heaven in a person.     This is so, because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of King Jesus.      The Kingdom Of Heaven is not so much a place as it is a state of existence.      We are born into the Kingdom Of Heaven as New Spirit beings by Grace Through Faith in Christ Jesus.     Doing so, makes us eligible for Spirit Baptism.      Heaven is the Spirit Realm.     We enter into the Spirit Realm in the New Birth.      Not understanding that relationship with Holy Spirit - being in Him and Him in us - is major doctrinal error explaining the weakness of many believers.      Many believers go about searching in groups or churches or through gurus to experience the Kingdom Of Heaven not realizing that it is in them and must be experienced and manifested by faith.

We are Spirit Soul And Body, meaning we are spirit beings who have a soul and a body.   
The fact that we are spirit beings escapes most people because our default perspective is Carnal Minded.   

We know that the physical universe exists in 4 dimensions: length, width, height and time.   

Heaven is a set of dimensions (how many we can only guess) that we are unable to understand.   The Lord Jesus Christ came to inform us of heaven and to enable us to enter into heaven.   

And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son Of Man who is in heaven. Joh 3:13 The eternal Soul Of God (the Word) was made flesh and dwelt among us.     But the Soul Of God was still in heaven, even as He walked the earth.     Upon His resurrection, He took His physical place in the Throne Of Majesty.

Jesus understood that He was in heaven at the same time He was on earth.   Let`s think about what He said in Joh 3:13 this way: `And no man has gone from the Physical Realm to the Spirit Realm, but he that came from the Spirit Realm into the Physical Realm, even the Son Of Man who is in the Spirit Realm and the PhysicalRealm.`

When Adam sinned, man`s spirit was disconnected from access to the Spirit Realm, becoming Sin Nature which is totally Carnal Minded.   

When we are Born Again we become New Spirit beings who exist in heaven Joh 3:6 - i.e.   in the Spirit Realm.   

And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Eph 2:6 The New Spirit that we are In Christ Joh 3:5 2Co 5:17 is sitting in heaven in Christ in His Holy Spirit.     We are now One with Him in the Spirit Realm (heaven) Joh 3:6.      But to a large extent this new status is just potential as far as the Physical Realm is concerned.      The challenge for each believer is to enable the New Spirit being to manifest in our thoughts, speech and deeds.      This requires an act of our will for our minds to be transformed to the Mind Of Christ Phi 2:5.      To the extent that we allow the Word and Holy Spirit to renew our minds is the extent to which we manifest as Sons Of The Holy Spirit 1Jn 3:2 operating in the fruit and gifts of the Holy Spirit and so experiencing Abundant Life Joh 10:10.

So, we should not think of heaven as a different place but a different state of existence.   

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Gal 5:25 The Holy Spirit is the Spirit Of Christ Jesus.     When we are In Christ, we are in His Holy Spirit and His Holy Spirit is in us.      Since we have New Life by the New Spirit it only makes sense for us to walk in the Spirit.     Walking implies that our physical lives are different - that we talk differently, that we do differently.      Jesus is fully man and He is fully God because His Spirit is the Holy Spirit.     He was not born with the Sin Nature that the rest of us were.     But He had to learn submission to His Holy Spirit Father.     When He was baptised with His Holy Spirit He was empowered to walk in the Spirit.     He went to the wilderness fasting and praying until He was totally conformed to the will of His Holy Spirit Father.     When He left the wilderness He was prepared to walk in the Spirit.      To walk in the Spirit is to believe and appropriate the promises of the Lord Jesus Christ while fellowshipping with Him in His Holy Spirit.

We are not `going to heaven`.   We are in heaven.   When Jesus comes back He will not take us to heaven.   He will institute the Kingdom Of Heaven on earth.   

The Spirit Realm has always existed because the Spirit and Soul of our Creator has always existed.   (He must exist somewhere).

In the beginning the Lord created the heaven and the earth. Gen 1:1 The Bible begins with the only beginning that man`s mind can handle - Creator.     And our Creator created everything that is.      If a person is unwilling to believe this verse, they will be unable to believe anything that follows.      Our Lord is Creator of all things and the upholder of all things by the Word of His Power.     Heb 1:3 Genesis is revelation knowledge of the origin of all things.     All other explanations are foolishness based on man`s rational mind and its limitations.      For those who might be tempted to doubt the creation account written down by Moses here is something to consider:    ➛ Adam lived 930 years so he was alive while Methusaleh was born in 687 and could have shared the creation account with him.         ➛ Methusaleh lived until 1656 while Shem was born in 1558 so Methusaleh could have shared the creation account with Shem.         ➛ Shem lived until 2158 while Abraham was born in 2008 so he could have shared the creation account with Abraham.      Though life spans greatly reduced after The Flood, we also have Abraham being the patriarch of what would be later called the Children Of Israel - Israel being his grandson.     The Children of Israel dwelt in Goshen for 400 years when Moses was born.      Moses penned the creation account which had been passed down from generation to generation by a people to whom heritage was important.     I am confident that the details of the creation were filled in when Moses spoke with our Creator.

The heavens that were created are the parts of the physical universe excluding the earth.   Gen 1:1 speaks to the creation of the Physical Realm.   

The `heavens` of the Physical Realm are above, or higher, than the earth.   
   ➛ sky
   ➛ planets
   ➛ constellations