Are Christians asleep in the grave until the Rapture? If so then why does the Bible say..?
To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Do not the Christians go to Heaven when they die, and when the Rapture takes place on Earth we are reunited with our physical body and changed into immortal bodies in a twinkling of an eye?
My mother always taught us that we would be in Heaven after we died. But now my younger sister says that after my mother died she is not in Heaven, but in the grave waiting on the Rapture. My sister has been out of church for years and has recently come back into the fold. I don't think she is getting the interpretation right.
Anonymous2009-12-02T18:18:08Z
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Death brings immediate Heaven or Hell. The first paragraph is correct, your sister is not.
Whose interpretation are you looking for cuz a lot of diff Christian churches have diff beliefs about what happens after you die and the whole rapture concept.
I can tell you what Mormons believe. We believe that when you die you go to either a spirit prison or paradise until the time of your resurrection and final judgment. Spirit prison is more like a place of waiting, while in spirit paradise I am guessing there is a lot of work going on to progress Gods plan for people still on Earth and preaching to those that havent heard the gospel yet.
I dont know exactly what happens in each. I do know that everyone needs an equal opportunity to hear and accept the gospel and how can they do that if they just dont exist for a time before judgment if they have never really been given a chance to hear and accept it.
The Bible says that Jesus went and taught the people in prison during those 3 days he was dead before the resurrection. If everyone just doesnt exist then who did he go preach to?
"Best Answer here means well yet scripture specically states " there the wicked cease from troubling,and the weary are at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear Not the voice of the oppressor. The small an great are there; ( this includes Mary his earthly mom, ) , and the servant is free from his master. 'JOB'. Animals and mankind,...all go into one place;all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again....ECcli.3... Yet we all sleep or see death, " we shall awake, ( upon Christs secound coming, and HIS judgement) some to everlasting life, and some eternal death......There is NO ' limbo' in christ's judgement. Your either believe in HIM OR YOU DONT... OUR HOPE IS IN Jesus-- " why seek ye the living among the dead? Heis not here, but is risen ! Our promise of a ressurrection is garanunteed through our belief/actions of our Actions.. Luke 24. See also John 11:25,26..! Scriptures state that the body an soul are one. God will not forget his faithful followers longing for forgiveness and oppression in such a world.
"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." [2 Corinthians 5:8] this is for raVar who wanted the scripture, am not if there is more but here is this one.
Some say we rest till Jesus comes, other say we go to heaven or hell. I always heard the same as you heard. The day my grandson died my sister seen Angels come and carry him home, we weren't there when he died we were headed for Cal. and got the call. So I believe he went straight to heaven.