Acts 7:49-50 (NIV), 49 “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be? 50 Has not my hand made all these things?”
God made our whole universe – all the heavens and all galaxies, stars, comets, planets, etc. God was dwelling in His “heavenly” home much before the creation of the physical universe. Where is His dwelling place?
“God is a spirit…” John 4:24. The Bible does not give us information about the spirit universe. Why? Because God wants us to focus on to worshipping Him “in spirit and in truth” in our present conditions. As the Apostle Paul wrote, “…this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind…” Philippians 3:13-15 (NKJV) Imagining the spirit universe would be a distraction and lead us to inaccurate conclusions.
Another reason the Bible does not include literal descriptions of where God dwells is because we could not understand it. When an angel came to Manoah to tell him that he and his wife would beget Samson, the following conversation took place: “Then Manoah said to him, ‘What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?’ 18 ‘Why do you ask my name,’ the angel of the LORD asked him, ‘since it is beyond understanding.’” Judges 13:17-18 (CSB) So if even the names of the angels are beyond our comprehension, further information about God’s spirit dwelling place would also be incomprehensible.
Although there are symbolic pictures of God on His throne (Revelation 4), these are symbols to help us appreciate God’s glory and grandeur. These are not literal descriptions of God’s dwelling place.