Message #6706

[Believer]

They are in Heaven with the Lord. The died BEFORE Jesus died. The Lord went and preached in Abrahams Bosom, taking the Saints with him. This who died after this awakes to either the Rapture or Judgment. (1 Peter 3:18-19)


Book Chapter and Verse please? Never heard of Limbo except in association with purgatory.

Already covered

rapture? As the Trib is already under way, and they werent there a minute ago.

I still do not see anything that conflicts with this. When you die you are either at the Rapture or Judgment. So either the soul is "asleep" or it time travels in the tardis.

Dok, those weren't rhetorical questions, I was actually asking and am willing to discuss it. 

"Limbo", as in, neither here nor there, hell or heaven.  If they are not in heaven, then that means they are not in hell, therefore it sounds like the 'purgatory' the Catholics believe, otherwise I don't understand what your belief is.  I have no scripture, because I can't find any where Jesus tells us that we will be in 'limbo'...or that our spirits will stay asleep; our bodies on the other hand will sleep until they are resurrected into the same body our Lord received when He ascended, at His coming, but I see scripture speaking plainly that our spirits will be with our Lord.

So, is your belief that if one of us died tomorrow, but it isn't the rapture yet, then we stay asleep until the rapture?

Philippians 1:23
 23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Acts 7:59
 59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

2 Corinthians 5
 8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

When I read these scriptures, I believe them to mean immediate, not future, especially for all those who have already died.