Bible Questions Answered: Death-What After

Bible Questions Answered:
Does some one who dies go directly to heaven or hell? Many people have many different beliefs, what does the Bible say?
Andrew/ Somerset, Kentucky

Bible Answers:
Yes, they do!

Hebrews 9:27 KJV
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

After death, comes the judgment, of where one has determined, ”spiritually,” to spend eternity.

Genesis 5:22-24 KJV (Enoch, never died, but certainly left this world, to dwell with God.)
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Enoch, and God, kept walking and talking together, from this world to the father's house of many mansions (John 14:2).

Matthew 17:1-3 KJV
1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light.
3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him.

Moses and Elijah who had been dead for centuries, were very much alive, and appeared at Christ's transfiguration.

Matthew 22:32 KJV
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Luke 20:28 KJV
For He is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto Him.

Luke 16:19-31 KJV (As told by Jesus.)
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

The rich man, and Lazarus, both died, but Lazarus was immediately “ carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom,” verse 22.
The rich man, immediately “in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments.”

Luke 23:39-43 KJV (At Calvary)
39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.

Philippians 1:21-24 NLT (The Apostle Paul.)
21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
22 But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose.
23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;
24 yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

Paul, said that if he were to die, he would immediately be with Christ.

II Corinthians 5:8 KJV (For the believer.)
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Hebrews 12:1 KJV
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses , let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

These clouds of witnesses are the individuals mentioned in the previous chapter (Chapter 11 the heroes of faith chapter.), and countless other Godly people, who have died in the faith!
They are ever watching, cheering the people of God, on!