11/24/2025
There are moments in Scripture where heaven feels so close you can almost reach out and touch it. Moments where the divide between earth and glory narrows into what many call “thin places.” Stephen stands before the Council in Jerusalem. Though his face shone “like that of an angel,” his truth was met with hostility. Yet in the middle of that turmoil, Stephen lifted his eyes… and heaven opened.
He saw the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
It is one of the most intimate and powerful moments of divine revelation in all of Scripture—a glimpse into the nearness of God even when the world around us seems to be closing in.
There are places in scripture where we encounter the Divine in the most intimate and close manner, moments in the holy scriptures where the divide between he...