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Do we go to heaven immediately after death, or after the second coming of Christ?

Seems Christians cannot agree on this. I believe from what I’ve read so far. That we are attached to the physical body and cannot live or exist without it. So after death. We are dead and are totally unconscious and unaware of anything. Like a deep sleep. Then when Jesus returns, all bodies (even the wicked) will be raised and then every knee will bow to Christ. That is when the ones who were saved, go to heaven and the ones who weren’t. Die again and have their bodies burned along with this earth and never exist again.

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  • 3 years ago
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    The bible clearly says those who die in Christ now, sleeps. Only when Jesus comes back are we risen. Yes you'd get a lot of different answers because of different denominations and outright liars who change the bible to suit. If you want to know yourself, read the KJV or NKJV and pray sincerely to know the truth.

  • Donald
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    I have answered this so many times....

    we die

    we return to GOD

    (that's it)

    2Cor 5:6-8

    Ecc 12:6-7

    Luke 16 (find Lazaus and the rich man)

    1Cor 15

    Rev 6 (really without a doubt proves this...)

    i'll share the verses.... (for the seals)

    Rev 6:9 ¶ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

    Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

    Rev 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

    how can anyone confuse this?

    where are they? (with GOD)

    well ......

    Ecclesiastes chapter 12 is about getting OLD.

    what happens.

    well this happens (at the end....)

    after your ears and eyes and teeth give out.

    Ecc 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

    this is in your body (think HEART) pump.

    blood flows in and out of the heart.

    Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

    2Co 5:6 ¶ Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

    2Co 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

    2Co 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

    Source(s): be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord (how difficult is this). then comes THE GULF (decision). Luke 16 I shared , shows this. Lazarus died and the rich man (the overcomer's are on one side of this chasm). a separation from GOD. (for the others) 2Esdras 7:77 on also shows this in GREAT DETAIL. the eternal heaven is not the heaven we see above in these verses. Rev 21 shows this.... which comes after Rev 20 (lake of fire) Heaven will be on earth. (but not now)
  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    it is my belief that no one has gone to Heaven since Jesus took all the saints from Paradise to Heaven when he left his mortal body on The Cross........since then, all, who have ended their mortal time, and who will enter Heaven, are in a sleep-like state.... they will be called up at the Rapture of The Church... to meet Jesus above the clouds.... and he will take all of The Church to Heaven.....

  • 3 years ago

    People's opinions on these types of issues are only that - PEOPLE'S OPINIONS.

    i'm a Baha'i. a member of the Baha'i Faith. We believe there is only one God, that sent Buddha, Jesus, Moses, etc to humanity, now Baha’u’llah has come.

    hearttoheart.net

    www.Bahai.us

  • Brenda
    Lv 4
    3 years ago

    Read psalm 37:7-11.....it will clear up purpose for earth and man.....

    During the Thousand Year Reign, the comforting promise of Jehovah God will come true: “I am creating new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be called to mind, neither will they come up into the heart.” (Isaiah 65:17)

    Source(s): Bible
  • k w
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    from the evidence such as NDE's and OBE's it appears we start to rise, too many reports of witnessing what doctors did or said they witnessed in the operating room as well as those who went to heaven and came back for it still to be a question, but the confusion seems to originate from those fully deceived by priests or others whose objective appears to be keeping the lie alive.....make up your own mind.....

  • RoSH
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    The Christ said to the one on His Right, wile on the cross "today you will be with me in paradise" However every where else, in scripture, speaks to the idea that you will be in the grave until "those in Christ will rise to meet Him in the air".

  • ?
    Lv 4
    3 years ago

    Neither.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Look, it doesn't matter if it happens immediately, or after the second coming because it'll seem like an blink of an eye regardless. So don't worry about that

  • 3 years ago

    If you make a sincere covenant with the Father that you will always obey all of Jesus' sayings you will be in Heaven on Earth now ,. even in God's Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven ( for it came in me on 2/22/1981 when there were 10 EU Nations ( Daniel 2 ) , and when the 3rd notable Bethlehem Star event ( a rare triple conj. of Jupiter and Saturn ) took place in Virgo . But if you want to die and go to "what-ever" then just do it . 40 years later will be when Malachi 3&4 takes place , where just like the Jews in 70 AD found out that they know that they missed it .

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    No one go's to heaven when they die, because you must be born again, which means reincarnation.

    The last judgement is at the very end of times,.

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