Expert: Jonathan - 1/24/2005

Question
HI:

    Thakyou for taking my question. In Exodus 19:12 when God says that anyone who touches the Holy Mountain must die. He says something similar about the the Holy of Holies. My question is: Do those who have died from touching the Holy object go to heaven? Or Do they Go to hell? Thankyou for you answer.

  Pete

Answer
I really cannot give you the correct answer since there are so many diffferent ideas about heaven and hell.  Some believe that no one is in hell but that hell is all in the future.  Later in the bible it says that david is still in his grave.  Some believe that people are judged at the point of death while others believe we shall all sleep those who are in their graves until the first resurection.  When the dead in Christ shall rise first then those who are alive will be caught up in the air to meet the Lord.  God can choose to end a life at any time.  It does not mean the individual is deprived of life and is then sent to hell.  God may just choose to take someone out for his own purpose or to prevent them from causing harm to others or to show others the consequences of sin as in the two who pretended to give all the money they secured from the sale of their property.  They did not lie to men but lied to the holy spirit and both had their lives taken.  Not because they held back some of the money but because they pretended to give all the proceeds to God.