What will really happen when i die?

Question

When I'm face to face with Almighty God, will I wanna dance in awe of His majesty? Or will I cry for all the stupid things i've done that have broken His heart? Will i run into His arms and hug Him? Or will i wanna run from Him?

I am a strong believer in God, Jesus, an the Holy Spirit, but I'm just wondering what it will be like at the end... how will i face Him.

I'd like to know an opinion from every angle of religion.

Answer 1

Have you ever heard of the band MERCYME?
If not, you should look them up and listen to the
song "i can only imagine." It basically is the same
as the question you just asked. We don't know
what exactly it will be like, besides the fact we know it will be our judgment day. But knowing we will live in peace with him forever gives me the impression that I will be overjoyed.

Answer 2

I'm a Christian and am not sure exactly how it'll be because I haven't had an after-death experience but I would guess that it will be awesome in every sense of the word! Awe-inspiring and breath-taking. I personally believe that we won't go directly to the throne room but will have to be prepared. Going from this life into glorious light/light must take some getting used to. Peter, James, and John were overwhelmed on the Mount of Transfiguration.

A great book I read on heaven is "Heaven: Close Encounters of the God Kind" by Jesse Duplantis
You may wanna check it out.
One thing I know though is that Jesus and God are waiting for us with excitement and joy! They want us there with them and that time is approaching!
God Bless You!

Answer 3

What a delightful question, sister. Conundrum has given you the perfect answer so I won't try to duplicate what he said. But I want to respond directly to your question. I have often wondered the same thing.

First, don't listen to the material answers here. They only know the body. So they believe that with the death of the brain that we cease to function or have memories. They don't even think through what they believe.

I laugh every time they say the worms will eat our bodies. I don't know how those worms are going to do that. If they stopped to think, they would realize that are bodies are chemically preserved. Also, we are sealed inside a casket and the casket is inside a sealed vault. They don't seem to comprehend that the "worms" no longer can eat the body.

In fact that will be the joy when Christ opens the vault and casket and restores our bodies in the final resurrection.

And since they can't understand what they can't prove with science, they have no concept of the soul and its ability to remember and know and live.

But the wonder I share with you is what will happen when I look into the face of God. When I behold the brilliance of his light that brought light to this world before the creation of the sun and stars, will I fall down on my knees and worship him? I hope I will just because of the awesome power of that moment.

Or will I dance? That concept scares me a little - I'm a terrible dancer and I'm afraid to dance in front of others. Yet there was that time in Oklahoma when this person who held onto a pole while three of the teenage girls in my ministry tried to pull me onto the dance floor. :-) I will never forget that time in Oklahoma where the presence of the Holy Spirit was so great that I joined a dance line and joyfully danced for the Lord. When I get into his presence will I just dance with joy? I wonder.

Or when I see the awesome presence of the One who is without sin and realize the depravity of my sins will I fall onto the floor in shame and beg his mercy?

Truthfully I suspect I may do all three. I suspect that I will fall on the floor in shame and beg for mercy? Then I suspect my Lord will lift me up and remind me that I am forgiven. Then I suspect I will dance for joy [while carefully apologizing for my terrible dancing skills :-) ]. Then when my spirit has finished dancing with joy, I hope I will fall on my knees and just worship the One who is Love.

God bless you, sister.

Pastor John

Answer 4

This body is perishable but the soul is not and since you are the soul and not the body the imperishable soul, like the snake which sheds its skin and takes on another, also sheds the old and dirty body and takes on another body and plays another role assigned to it by the Producer/Director of the world drama play God.
At the end of the play, God will come and take everybody back with Him to the soul world up above in the skies which we mistakenly call heaven.Heaven is on earth and not up above in the skies.
But the truth is that because God is ever pure, His abode too is equally pure and perfect so to go there one must shed this dirty costume and put on a pure one. It is this cleansing process of changing our impure clothing to pure ones that will give us pain which the scriptures describe as the hell fire.

Answer 5

All born again believers in the Lord Jesus will be present with the Lord when they die. The scriptures cover this. If you are saved, You have nothing to account for by way of your sins as when you were first saved the Lord wiped your slate clean and you passed from death into life. Jesus died for all your sins, past, present, and future and this is the confidence you have in Him. Ephesians 4:30 tells us that when we believed in Jesus Christ, we were "sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption" because we no longer had to deal with our sin problem, we are guaranteed by the Lord that we will go out into everlasting life. God bless!

Answer 6

When you die your physical body decays. And in time you fade from the memories of the living until you become part of a greater abstraction - a raw concept of those who have lived and died, and are no longer a part of the world.

All that you were ends at death. And all that remains is the peace of total oblivion.

There is no God. There is no heaven. There is no afterlife.

But if belief in God makes your time among the living better or more pleasant hang on to it for all you're worth and never let it go. And if you *want* an existence after death I sincerely hope you make it :o)

Answer 7

The best person to answer this question is a doctor who will be able to tell you what happens when a person dies.
In terms of your subjective experience: do you realise that that with which you perceive and make sense of world is in fact a part of your body, which will stop functioning along with the rest? So, once you have died, nothing will appear to happen, as that with which you perceive events will no longer be perceiving.
It is not death but dying that is scary, because when we are dying we are still alive and, if conscious, generally aware that we are about to die. So for the religious, the true judgement day occurs when imminent death is faced and the life lived is judged by that person.
However, many non-believers also face that reckoning with themselves.

Answer 8

The bible gives a clear answer at Eccleseasties 9:5 and Genesis 3:19

Answer 9

Nothing will happen.
Why bother about what will happen if all that counts is that you live until it happens?
I think it was Epicurus who said:
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Don't worry, be happy and live. Why bother?

I find it funny that people who say what is the most likely to happen, that you will rot, become part of the Earth get thumbs down...as if the answer isn't sexy enough.
Grow up people.

Answer 10

When you die, if you aren't cremated or properly embalmed, your body rots. Things that are icky crawl around and feast on your putrid flesh. Those critters then crawl off and die, decompose and replenish the soil and then other forms of life use the goodies for nutrients.

That is what happens.