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The mystery of heaven and when do believers go there?
While Jesus walked the earth, he and John the baptist were telling the Jews the kingdom of God was at hand.
When Jesus told Martha that her brother would rise again.
Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
When one reads the above they have to believe that at the very time Jesus made the statement, anyone who believed in him would go on to heaven. He was not speaking of our body going to heaven, but rather our spirit. We know his kingdom is spiritual for he said “my kingdom is not of this world”.
Mat 20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
Mat 20:11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
Mat 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Mat 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
Mat 20:14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
Mat 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
We must relate this to the Jews to whom Jesus was speaking. Abraham and then his desendants were the first to believe that there would be a redeemer of their soul and they would be resurrected in the last day. In the above scriptures, Jesus is saying that the last believers would go first and these would be the believers that walked the earth, but died, while Jesus was here.
It appears that the last day and the first resurrection was when Jesus died on the cross.
Luk 23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Luk 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
From this point on those believers that died went on to be with the Lord Jesus the day of their natural death.
What about Abraham and the other Jews, including Adam and his descendants?
The disciples asked that same question in Mat 24 and Luk 21, and he told them that it would be in their generation and they would know it would come when the temple was destroyed.
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand
Luk 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Luk 21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
Luk 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
According to scripture then, the last to be ressurection was in 70 AD.
We today, as believers, will go right on to be with the Lord when we pass from this life.
While Jesus walked the earth, he and John the baptist were telling the Jews the kingdom of God was at hand.
When Jesus told Martha that her brother would rise again.
Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
When one reads the above they have to believe that at the very time Jesus made the statement, anyone who believed in him would go on to heaven. He was not speaking of our body going to heaven, but rather our spirit. We know his kingdom is spiritual for he said “my kingdom is not of this world”.
Mat 20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
Mat 20:11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
Mat 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Mat 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
Mat 20:14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
Mat 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
We must relate this to the Jews to whom Jesus was speaking. Abraham and then his desendants were the first to believe that there would be a redeemer of their soul and they would be resurrected in the last day. In the above scriptures, Jesus is saying that the last believers would go first and these would be the believers that walked the earth, but died, while Jesus was here.
It appears that the last day and the first resurrection was when Jesus died on the cross.
Luk 23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Luk 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
From this point on those believers that died went on to be with the Lord Jesus the day of their natural death.
What about Abraham and the other Jews, including Adam and his descendants?
The disciples asked that same question in Mat 24 and Luk 21, and he told them that it would be in their generation and they would know it would come when the temple was destroyed.
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand
Luk 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Luk 21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
Luk 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
According to scripture then, the last to be ressurection was in 70 AD.
We today, as believers, will go right on to be with the Lord when we pass from this life.
