The concept that the Bible teaches there are levels of heaven highly likely originated with the Middle Ages' poem entitled "Divine Comedy" by Dante (written somewhere between 1308 - 1321). The atmosphere (sky) that surrounds the earth
In review, God tells us in His word that He indeed made three separate and distinct heavenly places. Note that Paul is not stating there are levels of heaven but rather that he was taken to the third of a sequence of three (logically implying that a first and second domains exist). Paul, speaking indirectly about what occurred to him, states that somehow, someway, he was transported to a THIRD spiritual realm (2Corinthians 12:2 - 4) where he heard things he could not repeat to others! It is the Apostle Paul who reveals and confirms the existence of a spiritual realm. This suggests an additional domain that is even higher than the stars. Could it be in the second, what we call space? Job 22 sheds a little more light on the subject when he writes "Is not God in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!" (Job 22:12). Where, you might wonder, does God's throne exist? The Lord's throne cannot be in the FIRST place mentioned above (the sky) since God does not yet dwell with mankind.
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