NO FLESH AND BLOOD PERSON HAS GONE TO HEAVEN WHERE GOD IS!
"AND NO MAN HAS ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN BUT HE THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, EVEN THE SON OF MAN...."
THOSE ARE JESUS' WORDS IN JOHN 3:13, THE REST OF THE VERSES WORDS "WHICH IS IN HEAVEN" ARE JOHN'S WORDS, AND SHOULD NOT BE IN READ.
AS JESUS WAS AND IS ETERNAL, AS IS THE FATHER, HE SHOULD KNOW, HE'S BEEN THERE FROM WHAT WE CALL "THE BEGINNING" FOR A LACK OF BETTER HUMAN WORDS.
THIS OF COURSE WOULD PUT A HUGE HOLE IN THE THEOLOGY OF MANY, ABOUT GOING TO HEAVEN OR HELL AT DEATH, OR GOING OFF TO HEAVEN WHILE UNDER A SO-CALLED "NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE."
THERE HAVE BEEN "MIND-EYE VISIONS" OF HEAVEN OR GOD. MANY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS HAD SUCH VISIONS. BUT THIS IS NOT WHAT JESUS IS SPEAKING ABOUT. HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE PERSON THEMSELVES GOING TO HEAVEN.
JESUS' WORDS COMPLETELY ABOLISH THE TEACHING THAT ENOCH, MOSES AND ELIJAH ARE IN HEAVEN, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO TEACH DEATH IS A SLEEP, FOR THEM THERE WAS THREE EXCEPTIONS, THOSE I JUST MENTIONED. BUT FOR JESUS THERE WAS NO EXCEPTIONS AT ALL.
IF YOU ARE READING THE WHOLE BIBLE, THIS SHOULD NOT AMAZE YOU, FOR IN ACTS 2:34 WE READ, "FOR DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN...." AND IN VERSE 29, "MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME SPEAK FREELY UNTO YOU, OF THE PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED ......"
THIS IS NOT TALKING ABOUT DAVID'S BODY, IT DOES NOT SAY "DAVID'S BODY" - IT SAYS "DAVID" - THE MAN; DAVID IS NOT IN HEAVEN!
HEBREWS 11 ALSO PROVES NONE OF THOSE MENTIONED, INCLUDING ENOCH, WENT TO HEAVEN - SEE VERSE 13. IT DOES NOT SAY "THEIR BODIES DIED" IT SAYS "ALL THESE DIED IN FAITH, NOT HAVING RECEIVED THE PROMISE, BUT HAVING SEEN THEM FAR OFF....." THE VERSE IS SPEAKING OF "THESE" AS THE PERSON, NOT THEIR BODY.
MANY MORE ARE SPOKEN ABOUT IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES; THEY WILL RECEIVE A "BETTER RESURRECTION" [V. 35] AND "THESE ALL [THE PERSON THEMSELVES] HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD REPORT THROUGH FAITH, RECEIVED NOT THE PROMISE" AND WHY DID THEY NOT? "GOD HAVING PROVIDED SOME BETTER THING FOR US, THAT THEY WITHOUT US, SHOULD NOT BE MADE PERFECT."
THEY AND US TO BE MADE PERFECT TOGETHER.....BEING MADE PERFECT IS BEING GLORIFIED AS BORN CHILDREN OF GOD IN A GLORIOUS RESURRECTION.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT PAUL WROTE ABOUT IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15 AND 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18.
THE LAST TRUMP [THE 7TH TRUMPET OF REVELATION] SOUNDS, JESUS IS RETURNING, THE ANGELS ARE READY...... THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD AND THE INSTANT CHANGE FROM MORTAL TO IMMORTAL TAKES PLACE FOR THOSE SAINTS LIVING!
THE ANGELS BRING THEM, GUIDE THEM TO CHRIST IN THE CLOUDS - MATTHEW 24: 31.
THE HOPE, THE FAITH WE HAVE, IS THAT IF WE DIE, WE SHALL BE RESURRECTED AT THE COMING OF CHRIST BACK TO EARTH. THE HOPE, THE FAITH WE HAVE, IS THAT IF ALIVE WHEN JESUS COMES WE SHALL BE CHANGED FROM MORTAL TO IMMORTAL!
THE HOPE OF CHRISTIANS IS THE RESURRECTION!
OUTSIDE OF THE MINDS-EYE VISION OF HEAVEN, NOT ONE SINGLE FLESH AND BLOOD PERSON HAS EVER GONE TO HEAVEN...... YOUR DEPARTED LOVED ONES ARE NOT IN HEAVEN, OR IN HELL; THEY ARE DEAD; THEY ARE ASLEEP.
PAUL WAS UNCERTAIN IF HE LITERALLY WENT TO HEAVEN OR NOT - 2 CORINTHIANS 12: 1-9.
AS JESUS SAID IN JOHN 5 THE DAY WILL COME WHEN ALL THE DEAD, ALL IN THE GRAVES SHALL COME FORTH BY A RESURRECTION!
YES, THE "SPIRIT IN MAN" GOES BACK TO GOD AT DEATH [ECC. 12:9] BUT I HAVE PROVED ELSEWHERE, THAT SPIRIT IS NOT THE PERSON, WHO CONTINUES TO WALK, TALK, THINK, AND PLAY ON A HARP IN HEAVEN.
FOR ALL THAT THE SCRIPTURES TEACH ON DEATH AND RESURRECTION, YOU NEED TO STUDY ALL THE STUDIES ON MY WEBSITE UNDER THE SECTION "LIFE, DEATH AND RESURRECTION."
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