2 Corinthians 12:1-22 In Chapter 11, Paul goes through a laundry list of all trials and tribulations that he has endured. But Paul says he doesn't want glorification because of all that he's been through; he's just giving an example. There is always someone else who has been through something worse than what you've been through. 1 ¶ It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. Paul says there is something far more important than the trials God has put him through. 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. Paul is talking about himself and this incident he had 14 years ago, and to this day he does not know if he was dead or alive. There are 3 heavens mentioned in scripture: 1) the atmospheric heaven in which we live, 2) the stellular heaven where the planets and stairs reside and 3) God's heaven. 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) Paul repeats he doesn't know if he was dead or alive. He doesn't know the situation he was in when this incident happened to him; only God knows. 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. Paradise is God's heaven he's speaking about, where he saw and heard things he is not allowed to speak about. There is another language that they speak in God's heaven. People to whom this happens come back a changed person. 5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities...
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