It seems you don't even need to wait that long.
Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.
While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.
Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.
I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.
I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.
I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.
Your brother don
2007-02-06 00:42:42
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes. The Thessalonian Christians were apparently very concerned about their Christian loved ones who had died. They expressed their concern to the apostle Paul. So, in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, Paul deals with the "dead in Christ" and assures the Thessalonian Christians that there will indeed be a reunion. And yes, believers will recognize their loved ones in the eternal state.
We are told in 2 Samuel 12:23 that David knew he would be reunited with his deceased son in heaven. He had no doubt about recognizing him. As well when Moses and Elijah (who had long passed from earthly life) appeared to Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration (Mat 17:1-8), they were recognized by all who were present. Furthermore, in Jesus' story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31, the rich man, Lazarus, and Abraham were all recognized by each other in the intermediate state.
2007-02-06 10:10:08
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answered by Freedom 7
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Hi Edward,yes I certainly do believe that we will see our loved ones again,they will be quite different in the fact that they will have complete health and strength,and youthfulness.
Not only this but the love that was shared between them and us will be magnified and on a level that we never dreamed off.
Mothing can take this reality away from us except disbelief so always remain in hope.
2007-02-06 00:44:29
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answered by Sentinel 7
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Hopefully
2007-02-06 00:49:03
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answered by Anonymous
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Nobody can truthfully answer that question until they die. And then it's kind of hard for them to communicate that answer back to the living.
2007-02-06 00:44:57
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answered by Ralfcoder 7
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Sadly, I do not believe we will see anything after we die.
2007-02-06 00:40:33
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answered by Anonymous
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Do we actually need to see them? Our loved ones are always with us. Just search your feelings.
2007-02-06 00:42:04
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answered by Anonymous
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No. It is a nice thought, but there is no evidence that anything happens after you die.
2007-02-06 00:41:08
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answered by Alex 6
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i've got faith they're relatively long gone, and that i do have faith that so-referred to as perception (it relatively is in keeping with almost no longer something in any respect) in life after dying is unquestionably a mechanism to handle loss. it relatively is real that there are spirits. i've got had sufficient interplay with them to be somewhat specific of that. it relatively is not real that they was people. whilst people die, their physique is going lower back to the organic components from which it became into composed, and so does the spirit we've interior of us. How am i able to be so specific? nicely, for 2 motives. I 'see' religious issues extraordinarily needless to say, in a psychic experience, and might see the spirit disperse from a lifeless physique. i be attentive to which you would be able to truly no longer get a lot credance simply by shortcoming of information, so enable's flow directly to logic. think of of ways very like your parents you're. think of of ways some features are surpassed down from different ancestors. think of of ways a lot the form you're raised impacts who you're. think of of ways your relationships and selections for the duration of your life impact who you're and the form you think of. think of of ways a lot your environment impacts the form you think of. think of of your very own unique features. think of of ways a lot drugs could have an result on your character. think of of ways your thoughts are shown to coincide with chemical compounds released from the innovations. be attentive to those issues and then tell me how a lot of what makes you who you're is LEFT. If that section is spirit, what makes you think of any of the particular components of who you're might proceed whilst ninety 9.9% of you dies? using the innovations, all of us be attentive to needless to say that persons do no longer proceed directly to the rest whilst they die. Their brains and hearts end functioning, and that they adjust into not extra.
2016-10-01 12:28:31
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answered by Anonymous
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No! And I have no loved ones.
2007-02-06 00:41:29
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answered by Anonymous
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