Question about resurrection after we die?

Question

In the Bible it says that our bodies won't be resurrected from the dead until Jesus's second coming. At this time our bodies will rise and fly into heaven with Jesus at which time we have our Final Judgement in front of God. After our Final Judgement God will make a new earth that we will live on forever in our new resurrected bodies. My concern is what happens in the meantime after we die? I thought as soon as we die our souls/spirits immediately go to heaven to be judged and to be with God and the deceased in heaven but the Bible is saying we don't resurrect immediately after we die-that we have to wait for the second coming. Or is it that our spirits/souls immediately go to heaven when we die and our bodies are resurrected later during Jesus's second coming? I don't like the thought of being dead in the grave waiting thousands of years until Jesus's second coming to be alive again. Can anybody clear up this confusion for me? Bible quotes would be helpful.

Answer 1

Depending on your belief.... those that were before Christ birth will be in the ground until the resurrection at the final judgement throne. Those of us who have accepted Christ (after the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus) will be resurrected and changed when the trump sounds for His bride to meet Him in the air.

Upon death, our soul goes to heaven. Our soul and body will reunite when Christ returns for His bride.

Answer 2

Actually there are theories that say different things.
In the book of mathew i think its chap 56 or 52 it says the saints that were in the graves rose up and around the world many people went into the cities and visited their families within their homes.
So the resurrection, possibly, does not happen all at once.
I have heard of a rumor, but could never verify it, that a farmer was plowing his field and a coffin was dug up and inside the coffin the deab body was resurrected before his eyes.
It clearly says that jesus is the firstfruits, but the plural form of the word implies that there were other with him that was resurrected.
it is also taught in the bible that EVERY living being will be ressurected. both good and evil Some will be resurrected unto damnation but it clearly says that ONLY the sons of perdition will be cast out into outer darkness despite what other verses say.
Corrithian ch.15 vs32 and 40-42 and 50 clearly describe the resurrection, despite what many christian groups have concluded There are 3 types of resurrected bodies. Each having their own kind of Upgrades and rewards. Jesus said in the book of revelation, Those who overcome all things will inherit all things.
ONE prophet in the book of mormon said he didnt know if there will be 2 or 3 resurrections, but he did explain that both the righteous and and the unrighteous cannot be ressurected at the same time for other theological reasons.
I hope this sheds some more information on the subject.

Answer 3

when one dies its spirit returns imediatly back to where it came from GOD!

Genesis 2: 7. the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils (the breath of life,) and the man became a living being.

the breath of life being the soul!

the body lies in the earth

(Jb.14:12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep. )
that is until jesus return when
(Dn.12:2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. )

at that time we will recieve a new body
"How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"
36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.
40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.
a heavenly body!

hope this gives you an answer to your most interesting question

Answer 4

At death, the human spirit goes either to Heaven or Hell. Christ depicted Lazarus and the rich man as conscious in Heaven and Hell immediately after they died (Luke 16:22-31). Jesus told the dying thief on the cross, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise" (Luke 23:43). The apostle Paul said that to die was to be with Christ (Philippians 1:23), and to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). After their deaths, martyrs are pictured in Heaven, crying out to God to bring justice on Earth (Revelation 6:9-11).

These passages make it clear that there is no such thing as"soul sleep," or a long period of unconsciousness between life on Earth and life in Heaven. The phrase "asleep" (in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 and similar passages) is a euphemism for death, describing the body's outward appearance. The spirit's departure from the body ends our existence on Earth. The physical part of us "sleeps" until the resurrection, while the spiritual part of us relocates to a conscious existence in Heaven (Daniel 12:2-3; 2 Corinthians 5:8). Some Old Testament passages (e.g., Ecclesiastes 9:5) address outward appearances and do not reflect the fullness of New Testament revelation concerning immediate relocation and consciousness after death.

Every reference in Revelation to human beings talking and worshiping in Heaven prior to the resurrection of the dead demonstrates that our spiritual beings are conscious, not sleeping, after death.

Answer 5

With all due respect this "resurrection" idea is not convincing to me. Are our rotten bodies going to resurrect after many years of being buried? What about those bodies that are cremated? The reincarnation makes a whole lot of more sense, The spirit soul leaves the old and useless body and acquires a brand new one within the womb of a female. Then he starts a new life with a new identity.

Answer 6

The Bible is not clear on what will happen immediately after we die.

Probably one of the best responses I have heard is consider what Jesus said on the Cross to the theif. Today you will be in paradise with me. Therefore, there must be some place either heaven or a "pre-heaven" place called Paradise in which our spirits reside before the Second Comming.

Answer 7

They must of saw something for them to willfully go to their death The events recorded in the bible have been also recorded by the Greeks The Bible states that when Jesus Christ died the sun was darken from the 3 to the 6 hour The greeks record the event at the 32/33 Olympiad Africanus also cites the 2nd-century chronicler Phlegon of Tralles: "Phlegon records that during the reign of Tiberius Caesar there was a complete solar eclipse at full moon from the sixth to the ninth hour". The church historian Eusebius of Caesarea (264 – 340), in his Chronicle, quotes Phlegon as saying that during the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad (AD 32/33) "a great eclipse of the sun occurred at the sixth hour that excelled every other before it, turning the day into such darkness of night that the stars could be seen in heaven, and the earth moved in Bithynia, toppling many buildings in the city of Nicaea".[14] These were non christians recording an amazing event

Answer 8

In His description of Heaven, and Hell in Luke 16:19 - 31 Jesus clearly taught that we immediately go to our reward. In Corinthians 5:8, Paul tells us that to be absent from The Body is to be present with The LORD.

Answer 9

The reason that so many Christians, & non- Christians think that we will go to either heaven or hell after death, just another pagan tradition that has been intermingled with the Christian beliefs. But the Bible says that the dead are dead, actually it says that the dead are asleep, until the final trump. So, sweety just stick with what the Bible says and you will be shown the truth.

Answer 10

you are right, when we die our souls go to heaven the Bible says "absent from the body is present with the Lord". we are then judged (for our works, not our sins, those were forgiven) and when he comes to resurrect the dead, it is their bodies that will rise to be incorruptible to join their souls.
the final judgment you are talking about is the great white judgment, that one is for the sinners, not the saints. Jesus forgave our sins (if you are saved), we are only judged for our works.