{"id":12904,"date":"2022-03-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12904"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:00:00","slug":"where-are-the-old-testament-patriarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12904\/where-are-the-old-testament-patriarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are the Old Testament Patriarchs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We&#8217;re at the pickleball court having a discussion about where is the location of the righteous Old Testament patriarchs right now?\u00a0 Some of us thought that they&#8217;re in a holding place, but where is that place right now?\u00a0 Is that holding place in hell, or in heaven?\u00a0 My question is, are they free and happy with Jesus in heaven now? Some of us wonder if they&#8217;re under the altar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jenny<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Jenny:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thank you for the questions.\u00a0 They are good ones.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>First, those under the altar in heaven (Rev. 6:9) had been martyred, so that leaves out such great Old Testament figures as Abraham, David, etc.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>All the righteous Old Testament figures were taken into Paradise when they died, and they are still in Paradise, awaiting the first resurrection, the resurrection of life.\u00a0 Until Jesus came, Paradise was in the heart of the earth, divided from Torment by &#8220;a great gulf&#8221; (Lk. 16:26).\u00a0 After Jesus ascended, he transferred Paradise out of the heart of the earth to where he is, in heaven, so that now, &#8220;to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord&#8221; (2Cor. 5:8).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thanks be to God for the hope we have in Christ, to be with the saints who have for so long been waiting in Paradise for all God&#8217;s children to come in!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, We&#8217;re at the pickleball court having a discussion about where is the location of the righteous Old Testament patriarchs right now?\u00a0 Some of us thought that they&#8217;re in a holding place, but where is that place right now?\u00a0 Is that holding place in hell, or in heaven?\u00a0 My question is, are they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}