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Secrets of Heaven #1882

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1882. There are two kinds of visions (both of them uncommon) that I was introduced to for the sole purpose of learning what they are like and what it means in the Word when it says that people were 1. taken out of the body or 2. led by the spirit to another place. 1

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1. For examples of the first kind of vision, in which people are "taken out of the body," see 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and possibly Job 4:13-17. Examples of the second kind, in which people are "led by the spirit to another place," might include Ezekiel 3:14; 8:3; 11:1, 24; 37:1; 43:5; Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1; Revelation 1:10. [LHC, RS]

  
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2 Corinthians 12:2-4

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2 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.

3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.