Do jehovahs believe in heaven

Answer 1

Yes, they believe that they would be resurrected to live in heaven to rule over the earth with Christ. FURTHERThe above answerer is only partly correct.

First, let me address whether we believe in heaven as was asked.

We do believe very much in the existence of heaven. The Bible tells us that God, Jesus, and all the faithful angels live there. (Isaiah 66:1; Ephesians 1:20; Galatians 1:8)

We believe that there are some from among mankind that are chosen to rule in heaven with Christ. These are called a "little flock" by Jesus, and their number is specificly stated in scripture as 144,000. (Luke 12:32; Revelation 7:4-8; Revelation 14:1-3)

We believe that there were unfaithful angels, including Satan, that have been cast out of heaven, and are not permitted to return there. The Bible says that they are confined to the vicinity of the earth, and soon their destruction is to occur. (2 Peter 2:4; Revelation 12:9)

The Bible also says that many faithful men such as David and John did not get into heaven. (Acts 2:34; Matthew 11:11) Why would these faithful men not be in heaven? Because the majority of faithful humans will not be in heaven, but they will be on a paradise earth, with it's government in heaven. Christ and his 144,000 kings and priests will rule over earth from heaven, and people will live forever in paradise. (Psalms 37:9-11,29; Matthew 5:5; Revelation 5:10; Revelation 20:6; Revelation 21:3,4) Even those who have died will be resurrected, a few to be part of the 144,000 in heaven, but the vast majority, including the criminal who died beside Jesus on the torture stake, will live here on earth. (John 5:28,29; Luke 23:43)

This kingdom that Jesus taught us to pray for is God's Kingdom, with heaven as it's throne, and the earth as it's domain. (Matthew 6:9,10) It will be through this heavenly kingdom arrangement that God's original purpose when he created man in the Garden of Eden will be fullfilled. He created mankind to live forever in paradise on earth, and He has not changed His purpose. It will occur as He intended. (Genesis 1:28; Isaiah 55:11)

Answer: Yes we do believe in heaven but we do not believe that all good people go to heaven. Only those that are chosen by God will serve in heaven and the earth will be formed into a paradise for his servants on earth.

Answer: Jehovah's Witnesses view God's Word as a basis for our beliefs and very much believe in heaven. Jesus confirmed that heaven is where Almighty God Jehovah resides. He called God, "my Father who is in heaven. " Matthew 12:50 - "For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, that one is my brother and sister and mother."

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that some humans have died and been ressurrected to heavenly life in spiritual bodies. They believe that the first of such was Jesus Christ after his 33 years on earth and that Jesus subsequently extended the same privilege to others.

They believe that only 144,000 people go to heaven and that no one went to heaven prior to Jesus Christ. They believe such ones go to heaven to be part of a heavenly government (God's Kingdom) and that they will rule as kings over an earth transformed into a paradise.

You know the passover meal Jesus and his disiples had before he died?

Well those who have dreams about being angels and know they are meant to be one, drink wine and eat bread at the passover we have every in celebration of Jesus year when the moon is full we pass it along and as I said only those who do drink and eat go to heavens as angels

Answer 3

Heaven is the dwelling place of spirit beings, such as Jehovah God, Jesus Christ, and the angels. A limited number of humans will be resurrected to live in heaven. (Revelation 5:9, 10)

Hell is the common grave of all mankind. It will be emptied and then destroyed by being thrown into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:13, 14)

Those resurrected from the dead, along with many others, will have the opportunity to enjoy life on a perfected earth in perfect health forever. (Matthew 5:5; Psalm 37:9-11, 29; Isaiah 33:24; 35:1-10; Revelation 21:3-5)

Answer 4

No. When you die you just stop existing or return to the way before your birth of unexisting state.

Ecclesiastes 9:5,6 says: For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.

Revelation 20:13 says: "The sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Hades gave up those dead in them." "Hades" refers to the common grave of mankind. (See the http://wiki.answers.com/appendix_08.htm.) This collective grave will be emptied.

John 5:28,29- 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.

Isaiah 26:19 says: Your dead ones will live. A corpse of mine-they will rise up. Awake and cry out joyfully, YOU residents in the dust! For your dew is as the dew of mallows, and the earth itself will let even those impotent in death drop [in birth].

This resurrection will occur on earth. This is obvious in Psalm 37:9-11 says: For evildoers themselves will be cut off,

But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth.

10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more;

And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be.

11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,

And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that paradise will be restored here on earth. It was God's original purpose for mankind to expand the borders of the Garden of Eden so the entire earth is filled with perfect humans living in a perfect paradise. Genesis 1:28: 'And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.' Psalm 37:11: 'But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.' Malachi 3:6: 'For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed'

Do all good people go to heaven? And if Adam had not sinned ,would he eventually gone to heaven? Acts 2:34: "David [whom the Bible refers to as being 'a man agreeable to Jehovah's heart'] did not ascend to the heavens."

Matt. 11:11: "Truly I say to you people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is." (So John did not go to heaven when he died.) Ps. 37:9, 11, 29: "Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth . . . The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it."

What is your hope for the future, beyond this present life?" Perhaps the majority of persons would answer that they hope to go to heaven, Is it God's purpose to populate heaven with humans, taking all good people there?

The Awake magazine, printed by Jehovah's Witnesses says the following in its 22nd Aug 1977 page 27-28 issue,

''The Scriptures make clear that it was a happy earthlyhome that God gave humankind to start with, and purposed that they should enjoy it. There is no indication in the Bible that God ever promised the first human pair, Adam and Eve, that they would be transported to heaven to become angels if they continued faithful to God for a time on earth. In fact, in all the inspired Scriptures from Genesis to Malachi, no promises of heaven were held out to humans; nor did any person go to heaven.

We have the word of Jesus Christ for this. He said: "No man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man." (John 3:13) Jesus' apostle Peter thus said about the faithful servant of God, David: "He both deceased and was buried and his tomb is among us to this day. Acts 2:29, 34.

A heavenly hope was not held out to those persons who lived before the death of Jesus Christ. That is why Jesus said that "there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is." (Matt. 11:11) Yet if a heavenly hope was not held out to faithful servants of God before Christ came to earth, why does God promise to take certain Christians to heaven? The reason is connected with God's original purpose to have an earth-wide paradise populated with happy, healthy humans.

To carry out this original purpose, God introduced a new thing-a new government to rule over the earth. God designated his Son, Jesus Christ, to be the king of this government, which is called in the Bible the "kingdom of God" or "the kingdom of the heavens." (Luke 8:1; Matt. 4:17)

And since the days of John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus, God has been selecting from humankind persons to be corulerswith his Son in that heavenly government.''

So the reason God takes a limited number of people to heaven is to form a heavenly government torule this earth,to turn it back to its original purpose.

No, Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that heaven is here on Earth, but that it is the home for the spirit realm.

The answer to your question is no. What we do believe in is that there will be a paradise on earth. As jesus said in Luke 23:43 "you will be with me in paradise" when Jesus said that he never said you will be with me in heaven he said paradise. Therefore there will be no heaven on earth.

Answer 6

The awnser is, yes.

Jehovah's witnesses [Not Jehovahs] beleive in heaven. Heaven is the place in which Jehovah god, and the angels, reside. It is not part of our physical universe nor can it be seen.