YOUR LOVED ONES ARE NOT IN HEAVEN NOW

It's the most comforting thought to believe that our parents, children, grandparents, friends, etc., who have died, are in Heaven. And it's even more assuring to think that they are there now.

Truth be known, that is not the case. Except for the exceptions that the Word gives (Moses, Enoch, Elijah, etc.) we're assured that they are resting in peace in the grave. Their death is referred to a sleep as in the case of Lazarus (see John 11, the whole chapter). The truth is, the Lord is very clear about this subject and gives numerous evidences of this fact.


"For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in the grave, who shall give thee thanks?" (Psalm 6:5)--We have no remembrance of God in the grave nor can we thank him for anything or roll over in our graves if something troubling occurs among the living.

For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9:5,6)

So man lieth down and riseth not: til the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of sleep. (Job 10:12)

His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not of them. (Job 10:21)--We won't perceive who visits our grave site, if our spouses have re-married, if our children have accepted the Lord or turned from Him, if a black man became president of the United States or if America, Canada and Mexico ever became one nation.

They praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. (Psalm 115:17)--Would there be true praising in Heaven if they are there and they see us suffering still in this world of sin?

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29).