The Simple Answers… To Life’s Most Important Questions.
Bible Study Course Lesson 10 – 4
When we see the scenes in Revelation, Daniel, or Ezekiel that show the heavenly throne of God, it’s easy to get confused by all the details, blinded by the glitter and holiness and bric-a-brac God keeps around. But most people never stop to actually think… what is heaven?
I mean, sure, where God is; someplace high above us; it’s off somewhere “in the sides of the north”, according to Isaiah 14:13; but what IS it? What are we actually seeing in Revelation 4:1-6? Forgetting the prophetic things for now, where does this remind you of?
Obviously, it’s the throne room of God; but where is that? Psalms 11:4. God’s throne is inside the temple of God! This may seem obvious, but it’s much more important than you realize; this vision of heaven takes place in the heavenly temple. I mean, that’s literally what it says in Revelation 11:19!
So this shouldn’t be a surprise at all. What we think of as “heaven”, is simply the temple of God. Once you really understand this, you’ll see that everything that happens in Revelation involves that temple; consider Revelation 3:12, 6:9, 8:3, 16:1, etc.
So when we see heaven in the Bible – wherever and whenever it’s mentioned – it’s always talking about the heavenly temple of God (not counting the obvious lower heavens where the birds fly, and so on). But when the Bible speaks of God’s heaven, it speaks of the heavenly temple of God.
As I said, this is pretty easy and shouldn’t be surprising to you… but what I want you to think about next will be. It’s simple, and obvious, and yet no one, to my knowledge, has ever asked this before. So pay attention:
Was the temple of Solomon empty? No?
So who lived and worked there? The Levite priests.
Now Paul specifically told us that the tabernacle, and later the temple, was made after the pattern in heaven…
So is the temple of God in heaven empty? No?
Then who lives and works there? The angels!
Which means… wait for it… the angels are a higher TYPE of the Levitical priests! (Hebrews 8:1-5).
ANGELOGUES (ANGELIC ANALOGUES)
That passage actually says this if you pay attention; for the BBE translates it “there are other priests who make the offerings … servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven”. What does that mean if not that the servants themselves are the image of the servants in heaven?
The heavenly temple absolutely must have servants who correspond to these Levitical priests. God’s pattern could not be so sloppy as to omit them. And since we know no man is in heaven, the heavenly temple must be staffed with vast numbers of angels just as it took vast numbers of Levites to maintain the earthly temple!
The temple managed by Levi on Earth corresponds in exacting detail to the temple in heaven which is managed by an angelic “tribe” corresponding to Levi! And given how OCD God is about His patterns, it must correspond in excruciating detail.
This means that if Aaron put blood on an altar, that somewhere in heaven an archangel put blood on an altar like it. If a priest in Jerusalem put wine or salt or oil on a sacrifice, then somewhere in heaven an angel did the same – if not literally, then in symbol. Or rather, what the human priest did as a mere symbol, the angel did in actuality.
So if a priest counted grain or received tithe, then somewhere an angel counted the hairs on your head and the sacrifices you made for the truth (Matthew 10:30). If a human priest poured sacrificial blood in a bowl, then somewhere an angel noted the injustice the heathen did to you to be used against them in the day of judgment, putting it in a “bowl full of wrath” (Revelation 15:7, Mark 12:36, etc.).
Everything human Levites did in type, an angel does in reality. If a priest blessed someone, so did an angel; if a priest wore a diadem, burned fat on the altar, circumcised children, put a spear through a Midianite and her lover, offered a morning and evening sacrifice, calculated the holy day calendar, carried the ark, pulled stones out of a river, washed his feet or ate the shewbread, then so did an angel.
What all those things mean we will discuss another day; some I know, some I’ll learn later, some I’ll probably never figure out. But the pattern is true: if any priest ever did it, some angel has done, or will do, a corresponding thing in the corresponding place in the corresponding temple in heaven.
THE HIGH PRIEST
And of course, if you just read Revelation, this is all pretty obvious, for you see the angels performing the identical acts that Levites did (Revelation 15:8 and Leviticus 16:2, Revelation 15:6 and Exodus 28:2-4, 39-43, etc.).
These clothes were specifically for Aaron and his sons. No one else in Israel would have been allowed to wear a “golden girdle” (belt). So it’s obvious that these angels are doing the job of the Levites. But there are many kinds of Levites! Some counted tithes, others covered the holy things, others did sacrifices.
But there was only one high priest… and the angel you see in Revelation 8:1-5 is no ordinary Levite; compare what’s happening here to Leviticus 16:12-13 and Hebrews 9:2-5. Note where the golden censer was! Inside the veil, in the Most Holy Place!
No one but the high priest was ever allowed inside of that Most Holy Place, and he only once a year… Which means this angel who speaks to the other seven in Revelation 8:2-3 is a direct heavenly counterpart to the high priest… the counterpart to Aaron!
As you can probably guess, there’s a great deal we can do with this understanding; because now we know that every page of Leviticus, most of Exodus, Numbers, Ezekiel, Revelation, and many other places are given to us, not as boring recitations of an expiring priesthood…
But rather as clear Revelations of what angels have done, are doing, and will do; all you have to do is substitute “Levite” for “angelic priest”, and “Aaron and his sons” for “high priest angel and the seven archangels”, and then just listen to what it says. But we’ll do that some other day.
WHAT ABOUT JESUS?
Meanwhile, you are surely thinking “No way! Jesus is the high priest in heaven, Paul said so!” (Hebrews 4:14, 2:17, 3:1, etc.). No argument here. Jesus our high priest. And yet… that angel in Revelation 15 was not Jesus. And yet he did the job of Aaron, the high priest. This has to make sense somehow.
So let’s see what Paul actually said about Jesus’ role as high priest. Was Jesus meant to replace Aaron? Hebrews 7:11. Jesus was meant to supersede Aaron – not replace him. To inherit the high priesthood of a different, and as Paul reasons, better order (Hebrews 7:4-10).
Which makes Him the mediator of a better covenant, with better promises, and a better priesthood (1 Peter 2:5-9). Hebrews 8:6 tells us clearly that Jesus has a more excellent way of serving than Aaron. (“Serving” is badly translated as “ministry”). He’s not merely better at His job; the job itself is better.
Because while Jesus/Melchizedek is a high priest like Aaron, it is clear that He isn’t going to serve God in the same way as Aaron did; read Hebrews 8:1-6. In that passage we see that Jesus is sitting on the right hand of the throne of God.
As has been said, the throne of God was pictured in the Earthly temple as being the Ark of the Covenant. And here Paul says that Jesus sat down to the right of it. This is something that Aaron most certainly never did (Hebrews 9:5-7).
So already, we see that Jesus and Aaron are not doing the same job. Aaron went in and out of the Most Holy Place a single time a year – under very strict instructions with dire threats for failure. But Jesus strode boldly in there and sat down – making Himself at home, for it WAS His home! (Hebrews 4:14-16).
And yet the existence of a greater priesthood doesn’t necessarily abolish the lesser priesthood, does it? For note carefully Paul’s words “we have a GREAT high priest”. If there were only a single high priest in the universe, then comparing high priests would have no meaning.
Thus, there must be two contemporary high priests, with one GREAT high priest – Jesus, of the order of Melchizedek; and simultaneously a lesser high priest in a different temple after the order of Aaron. For doesn’t Paul himself imply this, by comparing the “priest” Levi in Abraham’s loins to Melchizedek? (Hebrews 7:4-10).
Paul’s reasoning suggests that Abraham himself was a priest – and after all, didn’t Abraham offer sacrifices in Genesis 15 like a priest would? And as the head of his house, Abraham would have to be the highest priest in all of yet-unborn Israel. Yet clearly, Melchizedek was the higher priest even then!
TWO HIGH PRIESTS
A casual reading of Hebrews 7 seems to imply the complete replacement and abolition of the Levite priesthood. But God has already put strict promises in place that prevent Him from doing that! Read Jeremiah 33:17-22. Does this really sound like Levi is going to be utterly cast out of the temple? On the contrary, the promise to Levi is to be multiplied as the sand of the sea!
So the very binary choice of either-Aaron-or-Jesus for the high priesthood simply isn’t possible. Aaron was promised a priesthood “for ever” (1 Chronicles 23:13, Numbers 18:1-8). Jesus cannot simply take that away. He could as easily break His covenant with David, or His covenant with day and night.
But as I said… that’s what you get from a casual reading. If you look at Hebrews 7:11-18 more closely, you’ll see that the priesthood was changed. Not abolished! Because the jobs and offerings in the tabernacle were specifically and forever associated with Aaron himself (Leviticus 10:13-15, Leviticus 7:33-36).
These things were inextricably connected with Aaron; Melchizedek couldn’t simply take over this same job. I mean, think about it; how to do all these things is written in the book for Levi (Leviticus). Not the book of Melchizedek!
And yet Hebrews 7:18 did say that the law was “disannulled”. Yes – the law associated with Levi’s covenant but not necessarily the priesthood itself. Indeed, Paul went on to draw this distinction in Hebrews 8:4. If Jesus were on Earth, He would not be a priest! Because there are ALREADY priests doing that job!
And yet Jesus is already high priest, therefore, He must be high priest in a different temple or tabernacle! We don’t need another earthly priest doing the same job a little better, we need a heavenly priest doing a different and far more important job!
Which makes sense; because Jesus was the Lord of the Old Testament; which means that the tabernacle in the wilderness was specifically built for Him to dwell in! (Exodus 40:34). So why would we expect to see Jesus working in the tabernacle, when it is obvious the tabernacle and all of its priests existed to work for Him?
Wouldn’t it make more sense for Jesus to work in a different temple – as high priest in a house dedicated to His own Father? And thus, never replacing Aaron, rather, serving in an analogous role in a more glorious temple dedicated to His own Lord!
Remember: Aaron was a minister OF THE LORD! (Leviticus 7:35, Deuteronomy 10:8). But Melchizedek was a priest of THE MOST HIGH GOD! Different masters, different temples, and different coexisting priesthoods!
So Aaron and his Levites were priests of the Lord Jesus, who Himself has now become high priest of the most High God as He once was in the person of Melchizedek (John 17:5). And He invites us to become priests with Him in His priesthood – which is to say, not priests of the Lord, but priests of the Most High God (John 16:23-28).
BAD PRIESTS
Reading Hebrews 10 we infer that God’s goal is to put away the tabernacle of Moses, and put us all to work as priests in the “true” HEAVENLY temple, replacing the angels who are working there now. Revelation 7:13-17 seems to imply this as well.
Hebrews 8:7-10 makes it clear that the fault with the original covenant is not necessarily with the covenant itself – which would work, if administered correctly – the fault was with the PEOPLE… particularly those who were placed in charge of ADMINISTERING His covenant – the (angelic) priests! (Malachi 2:4-9).
Now reading that verse, we have to ask… were all of the human Levites good stewards of the covenant God placed in their care? Most certainly not; it was rather the exception when God found a great Levite.
So it is with the heavenly Levites, the angels in the heavenly temple with whom God likewise finds fault!! For we know that all have sinned, angels included! And if they had been doing their job in their heavenly temple, Jesus would not have had to come and bring a sacrifice to purify the temple!
We know this to be true from the earlier lessons in this Series, and from the plain fact that the angels in heaven are not pure in God’s sight (Job 25:5). No more so than the human Levites were! Like the Levites who picture them, there are some good ones, some bad ones, lots of mediocre ones – but no perfect ones.
There are abundant scriptures that speak of this, once you know how to hear, and we will go through them at length before this Series is over, but an easy one to start with is Psalms 82:1-8. God stands in the congregation of the Elohim. This can only be the angels, for there are no human Elohim to yell at in heaven!
And He is angry with them for the same reasons He was angry with Levi! Because they didn’t deliver the orphans, didn’t bring light to the world, didn’t judge righteous judgment! (Compare to Malachi 1-2, or Ezekiel 34).
THE NEW TEMPLE
But now let’s ask a new question; the temple in heaven, the one filled with angels that God apparently dwells in now – is that the true temple, the highest type of God’s dwelling place? Or is it, in all of its glory, just yet another type of the TRUE temple?
In other words, are the rituals and record-keeping and sacrifices the angels perform in heaven the true archetype… or just one more layer of truth meant to conceal and to reveal the truth about the ultimate dwelling place of God?
As I said, Hebrews 9:23-24 seems to strongly imply that the heavenly temple is the ultimate goal of God’s plan. But does that really follow? Does it follow that our future is to serve God in the same heavenly temple we see in Revelation?
Was this whole plan simply a fancy scheme to staff an already-existent temple? Because if the heavenly temple was working… why would God mess with it? I mean, think about it. God’s temple in heaven has been there a long time; and to paraphrase Hebrews 8:7, “if that first temple in heaven had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for a second temple of God on Earth!”
Yet we know for an absolute fact that God is going to leave heaven to dwell with man (Revelation 21:3). What use will He have for a second temple in heaven at that point? A summer home? So if His heavenly house had been the ideal, the “true” temple, He wouldn’t have asked Jesus to build Him a new one!
Therefore, obviously, it isn’t faultless; which is why heaven and its temple will age into obsolescence – not right away, but at some point in the distant future – and be replaced by a better one (Isaiah 51:6-8). And the high priest of that newer, better temple and covenant is, obviously, Melchizedek/the resurrected Jesus.
So the obvious question is… where is the temple where Melchizedek serves? Upon which altar does He place His sacrifices and offerings? Obviously, the temple of God – the truest of all – is not one made with hands (Acts 17:24).
Therefore, the temple of which Melchizedek is highest priest is likewise not a temple made with hands. Obviously, this excludes the tabernacle of Moses, or the temples of Solomon, Ezra, and so on. But less obviously, it also excludes the temple we see in Revelation 11:19.
For if “the heaven of heavens cannot contain him”, surely some small corner of it in the sides of the north (Isaiah 14:13) where this temple is, however grand it may be, likewise cannot contain Him! Therefore this CANNOT be the true temple!
THE WORK OF HIS HANDS
However grand this temple may be, with its streets of blue crystal (Revelation 4:6) buildings made of transparent gold and walls made of precious stones and gates of pearls (Revelation 21:18-21)… it’s still the work of His almighty hands! (Psalms 102:25).
This temple in heaven is very much the work of someone’s hands (Acts 7:48-50). And as such, it cannot be the TRUE dwelling place of the Almighty, who cannot be contained by the work of anyone’s hands! Where, then, does God dwell?
While it’s tempting to say “us!”, that also can’t be true for we are likewise the work of His hands! (Job 10:3, 8). Thus, we are not the temple of God either… not in the truest sense! So what is? It’s clearly something that didn’t exist as of 2,000 years ago (Mark 14:58).
At that time, a permanent dwelling place of God “made without hands” did not exist – and therefore, again, it could not have been the temple in heaven! But Jesus’ death allowed Him to make – or at least, begin making – a new temple without using His hands.
Again – not us! (Psalms 119:73). But then again… us? 2 Corinthians 5:1-5. Clearly, Paul is referring to our resurrected body. And yet resurrected implies the body itself was resurrected; that isn’t really the case here (2 Corinthians 5:17).
The Lord used His hands to shape Adam out of clay, making him – and by extension, us – quite literally the work of His hands. And the body thus made must perish, for the use of hands defiles it (Exodus 20:25).
WITHOUT HANDS
However the body not made with hands – that is to say, the body God has prepared for us, one made by the spirit of God – that body is eternal (1 Corinthians 15:37-53). And it was that body Jesus received upon his resurrection! (Hebrews 10:5).
That was the body made without hands that He was expecting to receive “in three days” (Mark 14:58 again). A body that compared to His first body in the same way as a temple of stone compares to a tent of goatskin! (2 Corinthians 6:16).
Let’s read the context of that verse, Hebrews 10:4-9. Note that phrase “he taketh away the first… that he may establish the second”. Reading lazily, we assume “sure, old/new covenant”. Which is true enough, but not the point; read it again.
The context of this passage is about the sacrifice of His old body to receive the new body which God had prepared for Him! For it was that very “taking away” of His human body, which sanctified us, a type of His NEW body! (Hebrews 10:10-14).
Which once again ties back to the new covenant and therefore the new temple – that NEW body! (Hebrews 10:15-18). And it is THAT body which, individually and collectively (in different layers of symbol) forms the TRUE temple of which Jesus has now become high priest! Hebrews 9:11.
Reading Isaiah 51:6-8 again, note the clear contrast in this scripture between the heavens (and therefore, the heavenly temple) which must wax old and be discarded, and those “in whose heart is my law” – explicitly those who have the new covenant!
It contrasts these two things because these people are the replacement for the heavenly temple! (Hebrews 9:11). For God will live in man directly (1 John 4:12), as He now dwells in some of us indirectly, through Christ (Ephesians 2:18, John 17:23).
God cannot dwell in us directly while we are still “made with hands”. But once we have been circumcised without hands, we become a new creature by becoming part of Christ (Colossians 2:9-11, 3:3, etc.).
The heavenly temple will wax old as a garment, and He will fold it up as Moses folded up the tabernacle. We alone will not wax old, for the body of Jesus is for ever. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of those heavens – all those who have not, themselves, died in Christ – will vanish away “like SMOKE!” (Isaiah 51:6).
Like smoke… because they are flames of fire, immersed in the heavenly flood that is the Father’s living water!
HIGHER THAN THE HEAVENS
God designed the heavenly temple, and all tabernacles and temples of which it was a copy, to teach the angels and later us how His true temple would function. It was a blueprint – and like all blueprints, how well the house actually gets built is up to those assigned to build it.
But as I said, it was a blueprint designed for the angels and carnal man to use. And they could have built God’s “true” house using nothing but that temple as a guide; however, the angels who administered it were as imperfect as they were imperishable. Even the ones who meant well just… couldn’t… get it right.
Which is why God said He wanted a different temple – one which was better than the one on Earth or even the one in heaven! He wanted a BODY, the body of Jesus, to be His temple. Which would take away the FIRST temple to establish the SECOND!
Now we’ve always missed the clear implication there; which temple was truly… first? The temple made without hands had not yet been begun in Mark 14:58! So clearly it was second. What, then, came first?
Moses’ tabernacle was built to follow the pattern of the heavenly temple which must have already existed! Therefore the temple we see in Revelation is the FIRST temple! The VERY first temple! All later temples were built on the pattern of that temple.
And so Moses’, Solomon’s, Ezra’s, and Herod’s temples were all direct descendants of that same flawed temple. How then can a GOOD temple ever come from it? Haggai 2:11-14; but also read Haggai 2:15-23.
Note the context is talking to the priests before the Earthly temple was laid… they were already failing, and they hadn’t even STARTED the temple yet! And since the earthly is as the heavenly… this means the angels themselves were erring before God even established the heavenly temple.
Which is why that temple, the one in heaven – and all others patterned after it – must pass away. Which is why Jesus has no intention of replacing Aaron at his priesthood; rather He will continue the legacy of Melchizedek; a priest whose temple is HIGHER than the heavens (Hebrews 7:26).
And therefore, higher than the temple in heaven!
ABRAHAM AND MELCHIZEDEK
Did Melchizedek ever offer anything in the temple of God? Did he sacrifice goats on the altar of Moses’ tabernacle? No, all we have a record of is Melchizedek offering Abraham bread and wine (Genesis 14:18). And this offering was not meant to be made in a temple, not the one on Earth nor the one in heaven. Where was that particular offering made? 1 Corinthians 11:24-25.
The purpose of the Passover of Melchizedek was to provide a blood offering (wine) and a burnt offering (baked bread) for the purification and sanctification of the inside of the body. But the Passover of Levi was only capable of purifying the outside (Hebrews 9:9-13), for the blood was painted outside the houses, not in their bellies.
The temple of Levi – angelic or otherwise – did not exist to purify the conscience, only the flesh. Those sacrifices could not make their people nor even themselves perfect. They were merely a figure, meant to last only for a time, so that men and angels could understand how the true version of these things worked.
This is why there is no mention of the original Melchizedek having a temple to serve in; indeed, we find him bringing offerings to Abraham in the middle of nowhere (Genesis 14:18-20). Because Melchizedek’s temple, or rather, the temple of God in which Melchizedek served, had not yet been built!
The foundations of that temple would be laid at Christ’s resurrection (Isaiah 28:16, 1 Corinthians 3:11, etc.), and other stones would be added to it as various apostles and prophets were saved (Ephesians 2:19-22).
And each of us, according to the plan of the Master builder, will be fitted into that house somewhere to do our part (1 Peter 2:5). And in that spiritual house – spiritual, made of air, and thus a house made without hands – if we are to offer sacrifices, there must be an altar.
And since the blood/wine and flesh/bread is meant to be taken internally (John 6:51-58), it follows that the TRUE altar must be somewhere inside of each of us… an altar from which the Levitical priesthood could not eat! (Hebrews 13:11-16). Which is where we are commanded to offer “sacrifices” to God!
Which means that when Melchizedek brought him bread and wine, Abraham ate from an altar that was inaccessible to his descendants the Levites! Because Abraham’s inward parts were the altar! As Abraham himself was Melchizedek’s temple!
Now remember, Abraham pictures God the Father; indeed, Abram/Abraham’s very name means “exalted father/father of a multitude”. So in Genesis 14:18-19, we see Melchizedek was there to minister bread and wine to Abraham. To offer bread and wine to the Father! (John 20:17).
In Genesis, look at the dynamic between them; Abraham wasn’t there to serve him. Abraham didn’t seek Melchizedek out. Rather to the contrary! Melchizedek sought him out by the road and served Abraham by giving him the blessing of the Most High God whose priest He was! Because Melchizedek’s job was to labor in that temple which Abraham was!
…A service which took the form of the bread and wine just as, 2,000 years later, He would give to the same to the apostles, who were sons of Abraham, both literally and in faith (Galatians 3:7), in order to turn them into priests after the order of Melchizedek of that same God the Father!
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Because of the failures of the temple, of its priests, and of its followers, God said He would make a new covenant (Hebrews 8:8-10). And new covenant means new laws with new promises; it allows a new priesthood to be chosen; and most importantly, it must have a new temple!
The terms of the new covenant are simple; the laws will be written on our hearts, not on stones. You know this, but what you don’t know is precisely where, in symbol, that temple is described. So just compare the location of the laws of Hebrews 8:10 with the location of the laws of God (Exodus 25:21).
This box was LITERALLY called the Ark of the Covenant. But here’s a fun question… the ark of WHICH covenant? New or Old? Think about it, for the answer may not be what you think.
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Remember, the ark EXISTED to carry the l-2-10 laws inside of it! The very same laws which were to be written on our hearts. Thus, this was the ark which carried within it the New Covenant. And Aaron was not a minister of this covenant nor was he allowed inside the ark. Ever.
Even to be in the external presence of the ark was an extremely privileged experience for Aaron. Because the ark – inside of it – was the actual place where God dwelt; or rather, a symbol thereof (Romans 8:9-11), within which was the law (heart), manna (spirit) and almond branch (soul).
Which means that the tablets of stone must represent our future, converted hearts (2 Corinthians 3:3). And therefore that the ark itself must picture our future converted bodies! Now remember, outside of that ark rested the external laws – the laws that only applied to the outside of the body (Deuteronomy 31:26-28).
Which again makes it obvious that we are, or rather, we are in the process of becoming, the ark of the New Covenant (1 Corinthian 3:17). And thus, of becoming the true temple of God, which wasn’t pictured by the temple of the Lord, but by the ark of God within it!
The temple proper was devoted to the Old Covenant, with the Ark of the New Covenant its center; but while the OC tabernacle and temple was the house of the Lord, it was the ARK which pictured the house of God Himself!
Which is why no one, not even a Levite, not even AARON, was ever permitted to go inside of that ark… not even the ANGELIC Aaron! Because only the order of Melchizedek was holy enough to serve within the ark.
The other Levites served Aaron so that Aaron himself could serve the Lord (Numbers 18:6-7). In precisely the same way, Aaron served the Lord, like his angelic counterpart did in the heavenly temple, in order to free the Lord to serve His own Lord, the Father!
The first temple – all versions of the first temple – were meant to house the Lord, NOT the Father. The ark was only present in that temple because the Lord who dwelt in that temple… was Himself merely the high priest to the true temple within which the ark represented!
Thus, it is obvious why Aaron would not be replaced by Melchizedek; for Aaron was Melchizedek’s servant, priest of a lesser covenant; he was incapable of serving God (often barely capable of serving the Lord).
So Levi was never a priest of the Most High God, he was always a servant of the Lord God; and that role will never cease to exist; there will always be a high priest of the order of Aaron, for the Lord has sworn that the tribe of Levi will never lack a man to stand before Him and serve the Lord.
Just as the Father has sworn that Melchizedek and all of His house will be priests forever before Him.
Ne 9:6 Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all [things] that [are] therein, the seas, and all that [is] therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Isa 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.
Ps 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.