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Question: After our death, all Christians are going to Heaven. (??)
Answer: No, then what about the Judgement day? Even Christians will have to
pass through that.
Please see the below article / clarification.
"And as it is appointed for men to die once,
but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of
many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart
from sin, for salvation" (Hebrews 9:26-27).
"And do you think this, O man, you who judge
those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the
judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and
long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are
treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God, who "will render to each one according to his
deeds": eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good
seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and
do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,
tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first
and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what
is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek" (Romans 2:3-10).
"For we must all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body,
according to what he has done, whether good or bad" (II Corinthians 5:10).
It is apparent from the verses quoted above that every person, good or bad,
believer or non-believer will appear before God to be judged according to the
things he has done while living on this earth. The judgment takes place after
death, but it also refers to it as the day of judgment. It is a single event,
and not an on going process.
"We are bound to thank God always for you,
brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love
of every one of you all abounds toward each other, so that we ourselves boast
of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is manifest evidence of
the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of
God, for which you also suffer; since it is a righteous thing with God to repay
with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest
with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in
flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do
not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His
power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be
admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was
believed" (2 Thessalonians 1:3-10).
Paul's statement to the Thessalonians establishes that the Day of Judgment
comes after Christ's second coming. At that time the faithful will be rewarded
and the wicked will be punished.
The only direct indication of what happens to man between his death and the
Judgment Day is given in Luke 16:19-31:
"There was a certain rich man who was
clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was
a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.
Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar died,
and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and
was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw
Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Then he cried and said, 'Father
Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.' But
Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good
things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are
tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from
there pass to us.' Then he said, 'I beg you therefore, father, that you would
send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to
them, lest they also come to this place of torment.' Abraham said to him, 'They
have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.' And he said, 'No, father
Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' But he said
to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded though one rise from the dead.”
This tells us that there is a place of waiting. In the Old Testament it is
called Sheol or the grave.
In the New Testament it is called hades. The waiting place is divided into
two sections one called torments, here in this passage, and the other is called
paradise (Luke 23:43).
These places are not the final stop for man, but serve as the place of
waiting. Jesus now holds the keys to death and hades (Revelation 1:18).
When he returns, he will open up the grave. "Do
not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves
will hear His voice and come forth -- those who have done good, to the
resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of
condemnation" (John 5:28-29).
The story in Luke also tells us that waiting place is not on earth because
Abraham and the rich man discussed whether Lazarus could return to warn the
rich man's family. Hence, the waiting place is in a different place than here
on earth.
Eddy Joel
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