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Do Christians go to heaven when they die or are they in the grave until the rapture?
Neither. All good people, regardless of religion, go to Paradise when they die. All bad people, including bad Christians, go to Hell when they die.
But God in his mercy decrees that Hades (Paradise and Prison alike) must be emptied and destroyed so that the resurrections and final judgment can take place (Rev. 20:12-14). Hell is never forever. There is only finite punishment for finite sin. God's love, justice, and mercy are all intact. Heaven and the other eternal rewards come after the final judgment.
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What are cradle to grave benefits?
Cradle-to-grave is a term used in the insurance industry and when referring to certain government benefits. The term means you are covered from birth until death.
Name the religious group persecuted by the Romans until Constantine?
christians
How long could a dynasty rule under the mandate of heaven?
206 B.C.E until 1912 C.E
Will Christians go through the Tribulation?
Another answer from our community:Jesus words in Matthew chapter 24 help us to get the answer to that question.Notice in verse 9, speaking to his disciples he said,""Then people will deliver YOU up to tribulation and will kill YOU, and YOU will be objects of hatred by all the nations on account of my name." There was a fullfillment of Jesus words in the first century on Christians living back then. But if you notice, Jesus also speaks of "the end," that is, the "last days." In verses 13 and 14 he says,"But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved. And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."In verses 21 and 22 he tells of a "Great Tribulation." He says,"for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world's beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short."In this "Great Tribulation," Jesus says that it would be so bad that "unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved." The Great Tribulation is still in our future, since the world has never seen days that terrible yet.Also Jesus says at verses 29 and 30, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory..." Those words of Jesus have not yet been fullfilled. So this Great Tribulation is still in the future. Jesus says that "on account of the chosen ones, those days would be cut short." It is appearant that the "chosen ones" would be present to be affected by the tribulation. So yes, Christians will go through the Great Tribulation.
When you die and go to heaven can you see people live on earth?
It depends on how you die. If you die from murder or suicide you stay on earth, until your spirit it transfered to Heaven. If you die naturally like in your sleep or of old age, then you have a straight path to where you want to be.
What will your Savior the Lord Jesus Christ do to your bodies once you join him in Heaven?
If you are speaking of the resurrection/rapture a person's body will be change before they enter heaven. This new body will be made to last an eternity and will be in appearance to your old physical body in that you will be recognizable to other persons. If a person should die today their physical body goes into the grave here on earth and their soul goes to heaven. Some people believe that when you get to heaven you will have a temporary body until the resurrection when you'll get your permanent body. I personally do not know if we will get temporary bodies.
Will the rapture of the church be a phenomenon?
There are questions about the rapture raised by some church officials. There was no mention of the rapture until about 1919 I think, which puts some of it in doubt.
Where does rapture come from?
I left the original answer, simply because it sounded so "cartoonish" to and quite laughable/ Essentiall this was correct, sort of. Rapture will be dissed by even those that believe the Bible. Why? ignorance, always it's that and just plain stubborness. Rapture is the "Catching away" and the term rapture was given to transliterate as closely to the actual latin term. One can do a study on the term rapture at Perry Stones website. He explains this side of it quite well. The dead in Christ will be caught away first then those loven will be "gone" in a twinkling of an eye. So, if you do not believe, it's not happening to you.This is going to happen just prior to a 7 year tribulation period.Previous Answer: =======================================The rapture comes from Heaven when God thinks that the world is ready for an end. All believers will automaticly go to Heaven and all of the nonbelievers will stay on earth in misery and pain. When the rapture occurs, the nonbelievers will get stamps on their foreheads that say things like "I am a nonbeliever" and these stamps will stay on their forhead forever until death. The only way these people can go to Heaven is if they really do believe now and beg for forgiveness..Answer:The rapture comes from a misunderstanding about what the Bible truly says about the return of Jesus Christ to the earth, and the gathering of His saints unto Him.
When was Until Heaven Forbids created?
Until Heaven Forbids was created in 1992.
Is the rapture post-tribulation?
A:Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that the Rapture has its origins in the nineteenth century beginning, according to one critic, with a young girl's vision. In 1830, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, fifteen-year-old Margaret MacDonald attended a healing service. There, she was said to have seen a vision of a two-stage return of Jesus Christ. The story of her vision was adopted and amplified by John Nelson Darby, a British evangelical preacher and founder of the Plymouth Brethren.The belief that Jesus will come again was not new, and Christians have always taught that Jesus will return to earth and that believers should live in anticipation of his second coming. Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice. The first return would be in secret, to "Rapture" his church out of the world and up to heaven. Christ would return a second time after seven years of global tribulation for non-believers, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth. Darby's timeline was for the Rapture to be pre-tribulation. Rossing says that some evangelists deal with the charge that this implies escapism for Christians, by delaying the Rapture until midway or even all the way through the supposed seven-year tribulation. The beauty of Rapture theology is that, as it is not really true, it can be what you want it to be. The Rapture can be pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation or post-tribulation.
What is God free gift?
According to the Bible, God's free gift is forgiveness of sin; a new life trusting and serving Him until the Rapture when all those who were faithful to Him shall join him in heaven. According to the Bible, forgiveness of sin is free, but many do not accept it.
What does cradle to the grave mean?
From the cradle to the grave means from birth until death; a person's entire life.
Will there be any saved on earth after the rapture?
A:Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that the Rapture has its origins in the nineteenth century beginning, according to one critic, with a young girl's vision. In 1830, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, fifteen-year-old Margaret MacDonald attended a healing service. There, she was said to have seen a vision of a two-stage return of Jesus Christ. The story of her vision was adopted and amplified by John Nelson Darby, a British evangelical preacher and founder of the Plymouth Brethren. Darby's theology has been accepted not only by members of the Plymouth Brethren but by millions of other Christians, perhaps because it sounds biblical.The belief that Jesus will come again was not new, and Christians have always taught that Jesus will return to earth and that believers should live in anticipation of his second coming. Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice. The first return would be in secret, to "Rapture" his church out of the world and up to heaven. The only persons to remain on earth during the "tribulation" would be non-believers. However, it is claimed that these non-believers would be given the chance to repent and those who do would also be saved. Christ would return a second time after the seven years of global tribulation, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth. Now we know it is a nonsense to think of people being snatched up through the sky, as Darby had envisaged. John Nelson Darby has sunk into obscurity, apart from his followers in the Plymouth Brethren, and so should his theology. There will be no Rapture and the sky will not be filled with people taken bodily up into heaven.
Do you have houses in heaven?
None of us know until we get there. There are many theories about heaven and what it is like.
What does post-tribulation mean?
A:'Post-tribulation' is a term used to define a version of theology originally invented by John Nelson Darby, the nineteenth-century founder of the Plymouth Brethren. Although few people belong the the Plymouth Brethren Church, many Christians believe in Darby's most enduring theological creation, the Rapture. However, one of the ways in which his original theology has evolved, is to diverge into pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation and post-tribulation strands.Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that the Rapture has its origins in the nineteenth century beginning, according to one critic, with a young girl's vision. In 1830, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, fifteen-year-old Margaret MacDonald attended a healing service, where she was said to have seen a vision of a two-stage return of Jesus Christ. The story of her vision was adopted and amplified by John Nelson Darby, a British evangelical preacher and founder of the Plymouth Brethren.The belief that Jesus will come again was not new, and Christians have always taught that Jesus will return to earth and that believers should live in anticipation of his second coming. Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice. The first return would be in secret, to "Rapture" his church out of the world and up to heaven. Christ would return a second time after seven years of global tribulation for non-believers, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth. This, then was "pre-tribulation." Rossing says that some evangelists deal with the charge that this implies escapism for Christians, by delaying the Rapture until midway through (ie: "mid-tribulation") or even after (ie: "post-tribulation") the supposed seven-year tribulation. The beauty of Rapture theology is that, as it is not really true, it can be what you want it to be. The Rapture can be pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation or post-tribulation.
Is there a way to heaven outside of seeking Jesus Christ?
A:Yes. Just as Christians believe they go to heaven through faith in Jesus Christ, Jews believe they go to heaven through good works, Muslims believe they go to heaven though submission to Allah and even Zoroastrians believe they go to heaven through Ahura Mazda. Some eastern religions believe in a series of rebirths until you achieve perfect righteousness and knowledge, after which you leave the cycle of rebirths and ascend to heaven. There is no evidence that one religion is more true than another, and each has its way to heaven.
What can you do to go to heaven on May 21st 2011?
A:Harold Camping, a Christian religious leader at Family Radio said that true Christians were to be taken up into the Rapture on May 21st 2011. We who remain behind will suffer tribulation until October, when the world will end. So if you are still here, it would seem that like me you are not a true Christian. Actually, according to Camping and his group, the world should have ended on October 11, 2011. All we can do is wait and continue to suffer tribulation here on earth for a few more days.
