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2 Peter 1:20
knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.
Paul here, I think, could only be describing another dimension. He said THIRD heaven; implying there is a 1st & 2nd whatever.
2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.
new heaven, new earth, new Jerusalen: different heaven, different earth, different jerusalem... in a different dimension he was being brought to. Its just a matter of perspective by the seer with his extremely limited understanding.
Revelation 21:1-2Luke 20:34-35
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. (2) And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage: (35) but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: