So there are no sandy beaches for the good and holy when they die? No regal black dogs? No boats? No tan, slender attractive young lovers? Just halo-clad winged angels picking harps?
Jonathan, what is the (Bible) Resurrection? And when does it happen?
It is when the dead “come
back to life. (John 5:28-29)” That’s what resurrection means. And Jesus said it will happen “in the Last Day”, for all the dead. John 6:44; Acts of the Apostles 24:15
This is no
immediate afterlife...if the dead were ‘living in another realm’, as many believe, there’d be no need for the Resurrection.
So the dead are as described @ Genesis 3:19; Psalms 146:3-4; Ecclesiastes 3:19-20; Ecclesiastes 9:5; John 11:11-14.
When Jesus
does resurrect the dead, He will be ruling the Earth by then...conditions will be
vastly improved from what they are now! Revelation 21:3-4
Beaches, sun, and palm trees! And Earthwide peace!