Good morning,
The reason why you are not taken up to heaven immediately you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour is so that you can win souls.
Necessity is laid on us to do this since the dead are not coming back to do it. We have to evangelize to all the nations of the earth to save people from hell fire.
Peace be unto you
Nii Sharmgar
Memory Verse Deck
Luke 16:27-31 RSV
27 'And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house,
28 for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.'
29 But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'
30 And he said, 'No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
31 He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'"