My mom and I was talking about what happens to the soul of those who are saved. Well I know for those who are saved we go on to be with the Lord. So let's say I die tomorrow and my soul goes on to heaven, but the rapture doesn't happen for another 20 years. Is my soul"spirit" in heaven till I get my body back? I know at the rapture is when the dead in Christ shall rise and those who are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet Jesus. So until that rapture is everyone who is there now just spirits?
2007-08-16 14:36:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. If you were to die tomorrow, you'd be immediately with the Lord Jesus.
The idea of "soul sleep", which says there's a "delay", is a heresy and not biblical.
Remember even as Jesus said to the thief on the cross, "Today you will be with Me in paradise".
2007-08-16 14:41:11 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
First, as Jesus said in Matt. 24:13, "He that endures to the end [of his earthly life] will be saved." So it is up for grabs until the end of ones life.
Second, what happens when you die? The Bible says in Eccles. 9:5,10 that there is no wisdom nor knowledge in the grave or Sheol where the dead go. Remember Jesus when he was to resurrect Lazarus, knowing full well he was dead said he was "Sleeping". Death is like sleep. The world goes on without your knowledge. Your not in pain or discomfort(unless you had bad chili). [John 11:11-14]
Psalms 146:4, "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground. In that day, his thoughts do perish."
The dead lie asleep in death awaiting the hope of a resurrection as Revelations 20 speaks of resurrection to both heavenly life for some and an earthly life for many others. The heavenly ones will not have any need for bodies. 1 Corinthians 15:50 points out "flesh and blood can not enter the kingdom of heaven." It is a place only for spirit creatures.
Is that not a wonderful hope? Everlasting life whether in heaven or on a paradise earth as Eden was. Neither could be called second place.
2007-08-16 15:14:14 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody could go up to Heaven (Planet Heaven) untill their Spirit got Recreated (Saved, Born-Again).
Not Even the Old Testament Saints (Moses etc.)
The Old Testament Saints were Saved in Paradise (they did not go into Hell) but they could not Ascend Above All Heavens and go on to Planet Heaven (Heaven is a Planet--Earth is a Copy of Planet Heaven) UTILL Jesus died on the Cross and was Raised from Hell.
THEN, they got Born-Again and Jesus took Them and Paradise up to Planet Heaven.
Paradise is NOW Around the Throne of GOD.
We can go Right on Up to Planet Heaven in the New Testament Dispensation.
2007-08-16 14:54:08 · answer #3 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are exactly correct!!! Those who died in Christ Jesus have been in that state as spirits for thousands of years and there is nothing wrong with that. But our promised spiritual bodies will come to true.
2007-08-16 15:29:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no rapture. Read your Bible-- we're all going to endure the hardship that is to come. Otherwise when Jesus warned of how hard it would be, he would have said, "So believe, that way you won't have to suffer these things." Any doctrine that took 1900 years of Christianity to show up is pretty suspicious.
2007-08-16 17:47:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible also says every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, saved and unsaved both. All I can say for sure, is that we'll all give an account at the same time - on judgment day.
This has to do with being outside of time after passing on to death. God exists outside of time, and the best way to describe that is by calling it eternity.
2007-08-16 14:46:29 · answer #6 · answered by sonofjesse007 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We rest until judgment day. Nowhere in the Bible does it say we go straight to Heaven and in fact in Revelation it says it isnt yet prepared for us. The references to going to "paradise" most likely refer to a happy restful nice waiting place for believers until judgment day. We are ALL going to be resurrected at the same time righteous and unrighteous, THEN we will go to our place of destination.
2007-08-16 14:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No one knows the answer to your question until they are dead.
2007-08-16 14:45:21 · answer #8 · answered by Irish 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
luke23:43.."and jesus said to him,assuredly i say to you,today you will be with me in paradise."
god bless!
2007-08-16 14:45:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋