Your Final Destination

What is your final destination? Your exit from this world is concurrently your arrival at your destination.

So, what will happen next?

Nothing! The death of both your body and your soul will continue at your destination until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Then, what does the Bible say about: What happens when you die?

The right and the righteous do not go to heaven, nor do the evil and the wicked end up in hell. All humans, with their bodies and their souls, die without any consciousness. It’s an erroneous misinterpretation of the Bible that leads many to believe that the good will “immediately” go to Paradise to be with God.

“When Jesus said to the thief crucified on the cross alongside with Him: ‘Truly, I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.’” Luke 23:43 

The actual Greek text of the above had NO comma: which means: “today I tell you”, and NOT “today you will be with Me in Paradise.” So, Jesus did not mean that the thief would be with Him in Paradise "on that same day" of crucifixion.

Even according to the gospel of John, souls don’t go to heaven right away when the bodies die.

“No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.” John 3:13

So, when do the right and the righteous ones go to heaven?

According to the Bible, all the dead—the good and the bad, the right as well as the unrighteous—will remain dead until their resurrection on Jesus’ Second Coming. But when? Nobody knows, except God the Father. All the resurrected will then be judged according to their deeds on earth.

“God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

“Those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.” John 5:29

Living by faith: Believe in God, who will deliver you from your death to give you eternal life when the Final Judgment comes.

Stephen Lau