If I understand the explanation of Revelation only after every soul that lived has been converted can God begin judging and condemning, and everybody waits in limbo ore the grave until then.
Otherwise the thing about the dead rising in the last days is wrong.
2007-08-17 07:55:44 · 21 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
After doing some research on various sites (here is a good one http://www.bibletruthkeys.com/where_are_the_dead.htm) I believe that no one has went to heaven. People die and do not have thoughts or experiences after death. Then when Jesus comes back then the dead will be ressurected and judged according to what they did. Some will go to heaven and everyone else will be given a 2nd chance with full knowledge of God to become right with God and they will be tested at the end of Christ's 1,000 year reign. Eventually there will be those that have eternal life in heaven, those that live on the new earth (where there is no suffering, pain or hardships) and those that will be thrown into the lake of fire and be gone forever, mind you they will be dead not tortured. This is my understanding of what I have researched, it would be good for everybody to research for themselves because I could be wrong, but after all that I have read this seems to make the most sense and it shows how well the bible really all fits together.
2007-08-17 08:23:48 · answer #1 · answered by wiley16350 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, some tell us that there are some indeed in Heaven.
Because remember the Bossom of Abraham? Well, before Jesus came the people that were waiting to see Him and those that trusted in God went to the Bossom of A. Now, when Jesus died the Bible tells us that dead men were seen walking and those that had passed away before. So the in my opinion states that the people who were rightous before Christ were set free from the Bossom of Abraham.
Whether or not, people still go there is not mentioned or in my view correct. I do believe in sudden heaven or hell. Just because the spirits of those that have passed are rising up doesn't mean that at the time they weren't heaven also.
But you are correct, and the people could still very well go to the Bossom of Abraham before Heaven.
2007-08-17 08:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those who were faithful to The Word and Will of God(The Law), prior to Christ's Sacrifice on The Cross, are already in Heave. They waited in Paradise untill Christ came and took them to Heaven with Him. Which He did when He left His mortal body on The Cross.... There is legitimate debate among those of The Church as to whether or not the "saved" go directly to Heaven when the mortal time is up...oe... do they "sleep" untill called up at The Rapture... I am of the opinion that I will sleep untill called up...One way or the other... all of The Church will be entering Heaven... and all others will be eternaly seperated from God.
Paradise is no longer in business and there is no "limbo"
BTW... not every soul will be "converted"... in fact... most never will be... Those of The Church(the Saved) will always be in the minority on this mortal world.
2007-08-17 08:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Word of God is never wrong. But perhaps your interpetation is. It's not that every soul is to be converted, but that they hear the Gospel and either accept or reject by the will of God. You're going to have to tell me the verse in Revelation that has "limbo" in it.
2007-08-17 08:05:50 · answer #4 · answered by disciple 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We started there in the pre-existence. Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
At death our spirits go either to Paradise or Spirit Prison. At the Resurrection our spirits are reunited with our bodies. After the final judgement, we are given an eternal reward.
2007-08-17 08:46:13 · answer #5 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are lumping everyone together.
John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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2007-08-17 08:03:05 · answer #6 · answered by Hogie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The souls of the saved are in heaven, the bodies will join them and be perfected when the dead in Christ rise first.
2007-08-17 07:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
in case you researched those that do pass to heaven, they are going to be rulers with Christ for all eternity over the Universe as all of us understand, and in spite of further assignments and creations which will come over that eternity. Revelation 14, So, they gained't be sitting on clouds, enjoying harps, and staring on the damned be tortured as their leisure. particularly the 1st thousand years they are going to be helping the billions of people that have lived and died come to ideal human existence, and enjoying existence continuously in the actual realm of Christ's Kingdom. with the aid of fact that we in the process the final century have come to appreciate the grandness of the actual Universe, with 100s of billions of galaxies, and the achieveable trillion of planets between that Universe, it looks like a great sort of artwork would be forward for those dwelling in heaven.
2016-10-15 23:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is under construction in the NJ Meadowlands. Until it is completed, there will be no indoor skiing--or salvation. Plenty of salivation though!
2007-08-17 08:05:26 · answer #9 · answered by Big Momma Carnivore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space Corps directive 1181 states: no one who is not dead can enter into heaven
2007-08-17 08:01:01 · answer #10 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋