Even under the Old Covenant, God promised that we could live our days here on earth as “days of heaven on earth”.
DEUTERONOMY 11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
How much more can we as children of the New Covenant have access to both realms?
JOHN 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
The word see in this verse means just that: “to see”. The Greek word here is horaó (G3708): to see, look, perceive.
Even if you have not developed your spiritual sight, you can at least perceive the unseen (natural realm) world of the spirit.
When you were born from above and filled with the Spirit you were given the capacity to see and hear in the Kingdom of God.
When Jesus died on the Cross, the veil in the temple (the house of God) was parted (Matthew 25:51).
Under the Old Covenant, the veil blocked the way to the other side where God dwelt, the realm that Adam once enjoyed.
After the Fall, it was only on relatively rare occasions that a person was taken behind the veil.
When Jesus died and rose from the dead, one of the first things that people saw were many of the Old Testament saints who had died.
MATTHEW 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
This is significant, in as much as it indicates that the veil has been torn. The people became aware of Old Testament saints who had died; they saw them walking around in their bodies. The veil between the two worlds was rent.
This was a sign that the Kingdom of God was now accessible to those who would be born again.
The apostle Paul understood this when he wrote: 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. You cannot enter anything in God until you believe you can.
Our mindsets, which have closed us off to walking with the Lord in Spirit, must be broken. We need to lay a good, sound biblical foundation for what we believe, so that the devil will not be able to discredit us.
However, the many things that we have been taught have limited us to a three-dimensional world, whereas God wants us to walk with Him in His multidimensional realm.
One of the problems that we have is that we tend to spiritualize things that we do not understand as well as things that we believe we cannot attain while in this life, thus limiting both God and ourselves in our walk with Him.
It is time to go where few Christians have gone before and enter the fulness of our salvation, walking as Adam walked with God.