Biblical understandings concerning the afterlife have come under increasing assault--by both secularists and cultists alike. What happens to the Believer at death? What happens to the non-Believer? Does one immediately go to a place of reward or judgment? Or does a person simply wait in the grave until resurrection, completely unaware of anything? Is there any eternal punishment awaiting sinners?

We believe that both Heaven and Hell are real places. We also believe that those who die in the faith are immediately transported to meet the Lord, and those who die without Him are consigned to Hell, until the Lake of Fire judgment.

Specifically, the Biblical teachings of reward or retribution are directly related to a person's salvation. What is the Believer saved from? Eternal torment or eternal non-existence? What does the Believer have to look forward to? What waits for the person who rejects salvation in Yeshua?

To Be Absent From the Body
by J.K. McKee

revised edition
posted 01 November, 2005

To Those Who Have Gone Before Us
by J.K. McKee

posted 01 September, 2007