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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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Ezekiel 8:3

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3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.