Will We Still Know Them?

[Waiting2BwithHim]

If we go to heaven and if maybe other family members don't make it there... when we get to heaven and if we feel

no sorrow or pain.. will we know that our family may not have made it to heaven?

If yes will we recognize said person? Do they also get different bodies?

And the other family that may have made it to heaven will we recognize them?

Will we both remember things that happened on Earth? What about family that you never saw on Earth will we

recognize them?

[Bold Believer]

If we go to heaven and if maybe other family members don't make it there... when we get to heaven and if we feel

no sorrow or pain.. will we know that our family may not have made it to heaven?

If yes will we recognize said person? Do they also get different bodies?

And the other family that may have made it to heaven will we recognize them?

Will we both remember things that happened on Earth? What about family that you never saw on Earth will we

recognize them?

All tears will be wiped away at the Last Day according to the book of Revelation.

The former things are done away with, Scripture tells us.

Once the disciples got a good look at Jesus, they immediately recognized him for who He was, so I believe we will know other Believers in the New Heaven and New Earth that we knew on the original Earth.

[JohnD]

Romans 8:23 (KJV)

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Same body.

1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

We will all know one another. Recall in the mount of transfiguration (Matthew 17) when Moses and Elijah stood beside the Lord... who told the disciples they were Moses and Elijah? Remember, there were no photographs, no paintings, and both lived and died hundreds and hundreds of years before any of the disciples were born. No mention is made in the text that they were told anything. Bottom line: we will know one another.

I don't know if we will forget loved ones who did not believe in Jesus so much as we will love God so much and will have our eyes opened to the truth and how great and loving and awesome he is and we will know our loved ones had every chance to believe that it will be as the billions of people who we did not love or know who did not believe. That's my best guess and that's all it is. I simply trust God on this and anything I cannot answer.

[JohnD]

If we go to heaven and if maybe other family members don't make it there... when we get to heaven and if we feel

no sorrow or pain.. will we know that our family may not have made it to heaven?

If yes will we recognize said person? Do they also get different bodies?

And the other family that may have made it to heaven will we recognize them?

Will we both remember things that happened on Earth? What about family that you never saw on Earth will we

recognize them?

All tears will be wiped away at the Last Day according to the book of Revelation.

The former things are done away with, Scripture tells us.

Once the disciples got a good look at Jesus, they immediately recognized him for who He was, so I believe we will know other Believers in the New Heaven and New Earth that we knew on the original Earth.

Old things are done away with, if I'm not mistaken, refers to the Old Covenant. Because even as new creatures in Christ we still are at war with the old self. It may, I suppose refer to love relationships with unbelievers. But that is my opinion. Which with $5 will buy you a cup of coffee at any participating Starbucks.

[nebula]

If we go to heaven and if maybe other family members don't make it there... when we get to heaven and if we feel

no sorrow or pain.. will we know that our family may not have made it to heaven?

If yes will we recognize said person? Do they also get different bodies?

And the other family that may have made it to heaven will we recognize them?

Will we both remember things that happened on Earth? What about family that you never saw on Earth will we

recognize them?

I personally believe we don't become something that we aren't when we get to Heaven. How can one's mother no longer be one's mother (for example)?

Likewise, if we are "rewarded according to what we have done", how can we truly appreciate the rewards if we have no memory of what we did on earth to merit those rewards?

So I believe we will know and recognize each other and maintain the relationships we had with each other.

As for feeling no pain or sorrow - does the Bible actually say this? "Wiping away all tears" can mean He will comfort all our pains in ways we can hardly imagine.

After all, the Lord feels pain, does He not?

[2Joyful]

My answer is plain and simple...

I believe we will know all we meet, because we will not be among strangers. But I also believe since we shall be like Him...we will be filled with the perfect truth as He is now.. Therefore if grand pop or mama isn't in our view...we won't be walking around looking or wondering. We will not have these nature emotions..Everything is perfect.... therefore.... we won't be operating as.... we do now.....I haven't seen...or where is..why is this or that person here....etc.

[cherylu]

If we go to heaven and if maybe other family members don't make it there... when we get to heaven and if we feel

no sorrow or pain.. will we know that our family may not have made it to heaven?

If yes will we recognize said person? Do they also get different bodies?

And the other family that may have made it to heaven will we recognize them?

Will we both remember things that happened on Earth? What about family that you never saw on Earth will we

recognize them?

I personally believe we don't become something that we aren't when we get to Heaven. How can one's mother no longer be one's mother (for example)?

Likewise, if we are "rewarded according to what we have done", how can we truly appreciate the rewards if we have no memory of what we did on earth to merit those rewards?

So I believe we will know and recognize each other and maintain the relationships we had with each other.

As for feeling no pain or sorrow - does the Bible actually say this? "Wiping away all tears" can mean He will comfort all our pains in ways we can hardly imagine.

After all, the Lord feels pain, does He not?

Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

ESV

[Waiting2BwithHim]

Correct my ignorance of understanding..So then if someone had gone to Hell and if we went to heaven would we know that the person went to Hell?

And as far as the people that were family that we didn't know on Earth if we believe they are in Heaven and that we are going to Heaven will we recognize them?

Example..is that my older brother had passed away as a baby before I was born. I believe is in Heaven. If I am in heaven will I recognize him when I get there?

[winsomebulldog]

Yikes, this is one of those topics that can just twist my brain into a knot.

Yes, I personally believe we will know and recognize each other in heaven. I base this upon the verse that has already been quoted, 1 Corinthians 13:12. Also, I base it upon, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

I do find it comforting to believe that one day I will see my saved loved ones again in heaven.

However, Jesus did teach that at least some of our relationships won't be the same there. IE, there won't be marriages.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. Matthew 22:30 (KJV)

So, things will be somewhat different, though I won't even pretend to understand exactly how.

As to knowing friends/relatives/loved ones who are not in heaven, well I have no real scripture to back it up, but I have always been taught that we would lose our memories of them on the last day when God "wipes away" all our tears, sorrow, pain, etc. This is purely conjecture, however, and not something that I believe any of us can know for certain. It does seem like it would be difficult to be happy knowing someone we care about is suffering in hell, however. Then again, none of us can begin to even guess at how it will truly be. I have many family members that I loved dearly who are gone, some of them died when I was so young that I have little memory of them at all other than the fact that I loved them. My uncle is one of them. My maternal grandfather died when I was very young. I have no memory at all of him, which my father told me was a shame since he said my grandfather adored me. Now I don't know if my uncle or grandfather were saved. I do know that my mother, father, sister, and mother-in-law all made professions of faith and so I fully expect to see them again one day. But if my uncle and grandfather are in heaven, then I believe I will know them when I get there. I don't think it's going to be like some family reunion we might go to down here where someone has to introduce all those people you only see once every year or so.

I suppose the greatest example is Jesus Himself. None of us has actually seen Him with our physical eyes. We cannot know what He would look like. Yet when we reach heaven, I believe we will know Him instantly. And not because He'll be the guy sitting on the big throne, but because we will have understanding beyond anything we can know or experience here. As 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 says, we'll be changed.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (KJV)

This passage may be talking about our physical bodies, but I think it must go further than that. Our minds and "hearts" must be changed as well. Otherwise heaven wouldn't be all that great a place. Because Christians can barely get along with one other down here. If something miraculous and God instigated doesn't change within us, we'll still be squabbling over which denomination was right and which was wrong. Not to mention our sinful nature that will have to be done away with once and for all.

Just my opinion. Basically, whether it's right or wrong, I hang on to the idea that I will see my family again some day. And that we'll know each other.

[Floatingaxe]

In Jesus' story of the rich man and Lazarus, the rich man knew who Abraham was. At the transfiguration, Jesus' disciples knew they were seeing Moses and Elijah. We will know everything we need or desire to know. We will know our families, including all our ancestors.