It Happened in Heaven: The Victory Above
The ascension of Jesus to heaven is essential to the redemption story because it is not merely His departure from earth. It is His enthronement over heaven and earth. It is the moment the crucified and risen Christ enters the heavenly realm as humanity’s victorious representative, carrying in Himself the full triumph of God over sin, death, and the powers of darkness.

The cross and resurrection reveal that Christ has won the battle. The ascension reveals where that victory is presented, acknowledged, and installed in authority. He does not ascend as a passive figure withdrawing from history, but as the Son of Man coming before the Ancient of Days to receive dominion, glory, and a kingdom that cannot pass away.

In It Happened in Heaven, Glenn Earls invites readers to see Revelation through a fresh and hope-filled lens. Rather than reading the final book of the Bible as a cryptic timeline of future catastrophes, this book presents Revelation as a majestic courtroom drama in heaven, where Jesus, the risen and ascended Victor, takes His place as King and opens the sealed scroll.

The scroll is not a schedule of disasters. It is a legal indictment. It contains the charges against Satan, the powers of darkness, and the corrupt systems that have oppressed humanity and creation. In this heavenly court, humanity is not the accused. Humanity is vindicated in Christ. Evil is exposed, judged, dismantled, and removed.

Following the symbolic structure of Revelation, It Happened in Heaven traces the story from Christ’s ascension and coronation, to the seating of heaven’s court, to the opening of the scroll, the presentation of evidence, the fall of Babylon, the defeat of the dragon, and the emergence of the New Creation. Through the lens of Christus Victor, Jesus is revealed not merely as the Lamb who was slain, but as the Lamb who stands victorious—worthy to judge evil because He has already conquered sin, death, and Hades.

This is not a book about escaping the earth. It is a book about the restoration of all things.

With theological depth, pastoral clarity, and imaginative insight, Glenn Earls reframes judgment not as divine wrath against humanity but as the holy fire of God’s refining love against everything that destroys, enslaves, deceives, and corrupts. The result is a reading of Revelation that ends where Scripture itself ends: not in terror, but in healing; not in abandonment, but in union; not in destruction, but in the triumphant declaration, “Behold, I make all things new.”

It Happened in Heaven is a bold, grace-centered journey into the cosmic victory of Christ—His ascension, coronation, and first act as Sovereign: bringing evil to trial before the court of heaven so creation may be healed.

Revelation is not the story of humanity’s doom.
It is the story of Christ finishing what the cross began.