As we are all going to have to die one day the thought of the afterlife has always been a subject matter of serious consideration in my Christian studies. Actually, I have undertaken several hours of study in my Bible and over the Internet relative to the subject matter. There were of course other reference points that I have availed myself of in compiling this article, but the two aforementioned sources seem to be the most reliable ones of all. Accordingly, I would like to pass some of those findings onto others here, if I may.Firstly, are only just two final destinations the deceased person has the possibility of going after having passed from this life to the next, Heaven and Hell. There is nowhere else the deceased will ever go to other than those two final destinations of Heaven and Hell, either one or the other.
There is no mention anywhere in the word of God of a place known as Purgatory. There no place, that exists, or has ever existed commonly known as purgatory, where as the theory alleges the deceased person may go for a brief period to wait for the final judgement. Accordingly, Purgatory is fictional, it does not, nor has it ever existed, there is only Heaven and Hell.
There are people alive today who have died and been shown the entrance, or the gates to Heaven, but there is no one who has ever existed that has ever entered into Heaven, and then returned back to their bodies to tell their story. If there is anyone you have ever met, or even read about, who has said they have died and gone into Heaven and then returned to their bodies then those persons are not telling the truth, they are liars.
There are many people alive today who have either died and gone into Hell, and then returned to their bodies. Alternatively, there are persons alive today taken into Hell by Jesus so that they could pass onto others the fact of its existence.
Both Heaven and Hell are real.
For financial benefit, there are some very unscrupulous persons may lay claim to something that is entirely untrue by saying they can communicate with a dead person. When really all they are really communicating with is an evil spirit that knows everything about the deceased person. Once a person has died, he or she, has either gone to Heaven or Hell -- and there is no possibility whatsoever of ever communicating with the dead person -- as once you die and pass over then that is the end of the story there is simply no turning back whatsoever.
Even though the deceased person may have been an atheist all of his life before dying, (right at the last minute) he/she may have repented of his sins so there is no one alive who really knows the final destination of the deceased person and whether the dead person has gone to either Heaven or Hell. Accordingly, there is no point in prejudging someone's final destination by thinking that because they have been a sinner all of their lives the deceased person would have automatically gone to Hell. The facts of the matter are they we just do not know where anyone goes when they die, either Heaven or Hell.
While Heaven is a place of eternal bliss, Hell is the complete opposite being a place of eternal torment. As that is the case, then the wisest thing to do would be to make sure that you do not go to Hell, but instead to make sure that you go to Heaven. The only way to make sure that you are going to Heaven is to come to the cross and then by doing so receive the perfect gift of eternal life by being washed under the blood of Christ through the repentance of sins. There is no other way to enter into the Kingdom of God other than through the son by asking for forgiveness of sin.
For those who are yet unsaved and desire to go to be with the Lord after having the death experience then do so right now in the privacy of your own home by reciting the believers prayer of repentance as has been formatted at the bottom of this page. Do it now, for tomorrow may be too late.
Remember this, there are approximately 124,000 people who die somewhere around the globe every 24 hours. The saddest part of all of this is that most of those listed in that number were unsaved at the time of their demise. That means the majority could have only gone to Hell. So make sure that you are not one of them by making sure that you are saved by doing as I have suggested above, do it right now.
There have been two instances I have heard of, (both were members of the same family) who after having passed away were not allowed to enter into Heaven because, as they allege, they were prevented from doing so by an angel at the entrance. The Son of God prevented the aforementioned instances from entering the Kingdom of God, and not an angel. So make sure that you are Born Again before you die. Once that happens it is forever, and there is simply no turning back whatsoever.
