{"id":14123,"date":"2019-02-21T06:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=14123"},"modified":"2019-02-21T06:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:59:45","slug":"going-to-heaven-when-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/going-to-heaven-when-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Provoking Your Thinking About &#8220;Going to Heaven When You Die&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Heaven-684945.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14124\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Heaven-684945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1360\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Heaven-684945.jpg 1360w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Heaven-684945-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Heaven-684945-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Heaven-684945-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Heaven-684945-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1360px) 100vw, 1360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>John 3:13, <i>No one has ascended to heaven.<\/i><\/b> Most Christians believe that when they die, they immediately go to heaven in spite of Yeshua\u2019s clear statement in this verse.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, many believers see this verse as referring to the saints who died <i>before<\/i> Yeshua\u2019s resurrection, but not true of those who died <i>afterwards<\/i>, even though he doesn\u2019t say this. Therefore, they reason, this is why, according to Peter, David, who was born <i>before <\/i>Yeshua, is still resting in his grave awaiting the last days resurrection (Acts 2:29). If what the majority of Christians believe on this subject were true, then the saints of old are second class citizens and YHVH is a respecter persons (which he is not, see Acts 10:34; Rom 2:11) in that they have to wait for resurrection day and for their ultimate reward of eternal life, while the saints born since Yeshua receive immortality immediately upon death.<\/p>\n<p>Laying aside all the church traditions and doctrines of men, what does the Bible in the simplest and clearest terms say about the timing of the saints receiving immortality and their glorified bodies? Paul states that the resurrection of <i>all<\/i> the dead saints and their receiving immortality occurs <i>not<\/i> at the time of their physical death, but at the second coming of Yeshua at the last trumpet (1 Cor 15:51\u201354; 1 Thess 4:13\u201318 cp. Rev 11:15, 18).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In reality, men\u2019s eternal inheritance isn\u2019t heaven, but will be the New Jerusalem, which is coming <i>down from<\/i> heaven to the new earth (Rev 21:2).<\/p>\n<p>In reality, men\u2019s eternal inheritance isn\u2019t heaven, but the New Jerusalem, which is coming <i>down from<\/i> heaven to the new earth (Rev 21:2).<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Provoking Your Thinking About \\&quot;Going to Heaven When You Die\\&quot;',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/going-to-heaven-when-you-die\/',contentID: 'post-14123',suggestTags: 'Heaven,Immortality',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 3:13, No one has ascended to heaven. Most Christians believe that when they die, they immediately go to heaven in spite of Yeshua\u2019s clear statement in this verse. Moreover, many believers see this verse as referring to the saints &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/going-to-heaven-when-you-die\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[370,956],"class_list":["post-14123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-heaven","tag-immortality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Provoking Your Thinking About &quot;Going to Heaven When You Die&quot; | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/going-to-heaven-when-you-die\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Provoking Your Thinking About &quot;Going to Heaven When You Die&quot; | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John 3:13, No one has ascended to heaven. 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