Were do jehova witnesses believe they go when they die?

Answer 1

We believe that when we die we are in a sleep like state, until we are resurrected. No one really dies then they are gone forever, or die and go to the heavens. You are plainly in a sleep mode, waiting to wake up from death.

To clarify more:

The Bible teaches that when we die, we are dead; not alive somewhere else. Gen 3: says that we "return to the dust, from whence we came." We did not come from heaven before we were born; there was no 'sign of our existence' before we existed. That's where we go again, when we die, into nothingness / non-existence.

The concept of an 'immortal soul' is NOT a Bible teaching, but comes from pagandom.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe what the Bible teaches. When we die: any sign of us (other than God's memory of us) goes back into nothingness; into the grave, the ground, the earth.

The 'sleep-mode' is only in the sense that as during literal sleep, -- we do not know anything that's going on; we are not conscieous of anything around us. Jesus likened death to sleep for that reason.

Therefore just as God created us from the elements of the ground the first time; once we return there, God can re-create us again from the same earth elements. This is called a 'resurrection'. This is what the Bible teaches, this is what Jehovah's people believe.

Answer 2

The same place a Jehovah's Witness goes. The bible doesn't teach that we will go to Heaven or hell when we die. It teaches only the anointed class will go to heaven which is 144,000. It says this in the bible about when we die....

Ecclesiastes 9:5 "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."

In the book of John chapter 11:11-14 it refers to death as a long sleep.

But the Bible does explain an earthly hope. "For evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. 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. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace" Psalm 37: 9-11.

So we all, (unless of the anointed class), have a hope of being in a Paradise on earth. Just like Jehovah intended it to be when he first created Adam and Eve.

Titus 1:2

Answer 3

There are two classes of Jehovah's Witnesses. Those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly hope.

Those with an earthly hope believe if they die they will be resurrected into the paradise earth. Until that time they are 'asleep' (in a state of complete non-existence) in the grave. Those with a heavenly hope, are known as the "anointed class". Their hope is that if they die before Armageddon they will be instantly resurrected to heaven and thereafter share in rulership with Jesus over the resurrected ones on earth.

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Answer 4

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that faithful servants of God have two possible scenarios after they die.

A limited number (Revelation 7:4, 144,000) go to heaven as spirit creatures and rule in the heavens with Jesus as Kings and Priests. They are referred to as anointed ones and are sometimes called the "little flock".

The remainder, the "other sheep" have an opportunity to be resurrected on earth and have a new physical body and are to "inherit the earth" (Psalms 37:29) They will join the survivors of Armageddon. Jesus resurrected ones while he was on the earth as a demonstration of Jehovah's power.

Answer 5

do jehovas go to heaven and hell