The First Days in Heaven: What New Arrivals Go Through

Steven Masiga
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Steven Masiga

There is a public place in heaven where dead people gather every morning to get news on what is happening on Earth—like who has died—and general news about the Earth. Other discussions in this popular corner in Heaven border on who has killed who, government takeovers, and family feuds, among others. For example, deceased parents monitor how their children are fighting and killing each other over the estates they left behind.

Precisely, up to now, the location of Heaven is unknown, but the majority of people think Heaven is somewhere up there, perhaps beyond the last planet. Whereas the Earth has only one sun and one moon, there are several planets up there that are said to have more than 200 suns and several moons. Human concentration and interest has mostly been on what happens here on Earth, but not elsewhere. No wonder there are animals or creatures with no brains and heart on this Earth, and yet many people are unaware of this.




Many Christian preachers have created the impression that sinners will never enter Heaven, and I want to correct this. Sinners will be among the first groups of people to reach and enter Heaven. The Bible is quite clear on this, because in the eyes of God all persons are innocent until proven otherwise. Those who are assumed to have committed crimes while on Earth will appear before God during Judgment Day for the mention of their sins, which they purportedly committed while on Earth.




The Ten Commandments are laws or commands that God put on Earth, and as humans we are supposed to ensure that we follow them to the letter. Anybody whom God suspects to have gone against such commands will appear for trial in Heaven, since that is the official place of God. The Ten Commandments forbid us from killing each other, lying, committing adultery, or worshipping other gods, among others. The only person with the capacity to ascertain whether the humans He created have lived within the dictates He left behind is none other than God Himself.




When all humans have assembled before God, innocent or otherwise, the accused persons may be entitled to a defense—meaning that one may raise a defense as to why he may have been compelled or pushed to commit the said sin. Defenses, once well argued, may lead to acquittal or, at the very least, reduce the severity of the punishment.

Some of the common defenses available to sinners on the Day of Judgment—and I would encourage the living to master them while on Earth—include:

Intoxication: This is where an accused can raise a defense that, at the time he committed the forbidden sins, he was drunk. In the Bible, the children of Lot fed him with alcohol and ended up sleeping with him—meaning that if it wasn’t for the influence of alcohol, he wouldn’t have had sex with his daughters.




Accident: Another defense could be that of accident—where one committed the crime accidentally, meaning that he had not planned to do so. Absence of intention can lead to acquittal.

A sinner can also raise the defense of double jeopardy or prior trial. Somebody could say, “Yes, I committed the said crimes or sins, but my Lord, I served the sentence fully while on Earth,” and double punishment would go against the principles of Christianity.

Others may raise the defense of ignorance, saying that they were unaware of the existence of God since they had not seen Him physically, as the Israelites did. Atheists will cling to this. Others may question the jurisdiction of the court (God) over petty sins.




Since sins may not be of the same proportion, some of the sinners may be forgiven and rehabilitated—since God is all-forgiving. Muslims, who believe in retribution while on Earth, may argue that they committed the said sins but fully served their punishments on Earth—and since double trials and punishments are discouraged, Allah will not punish them again but rather welcome them into Heaven.

Those who are found culpable should be tried and punished, and thereafter given room for reformation. God will bring them back to Him, since no punishment endures forever. God is all-merciful and cannot punish people forever.

The essence of any trial—either on Earth or in Heaven—is basically to ensure that an accused person is accorded a fair trial, and granted the opportunity to explain himself on the charges labeled against him or her. If found guilty, he will be punished; or released if there is insufficient evidence on the accusations.

It is only God who knows the innocent and the guilty, and none of us knows this. That is why when Judgment Day comes, the destination will be one: all of us heading to Heaven to meet our Creator. God could alternatively welcome and forgive all of us collectively for any misdemeanors and other minor sins. Some Christians practice Christianity for vengeance, and many pseudo-Christians would feel uncomfortable if God collectively decided to forgive all sinners.

There are people who believe in vengeance or who may feel offended if God decided to abandon trials altogether and forgave everyone. Many people who have spent hundreds of years praying may feel offended by such a gesture.







It is plausible that God may abandon the idea of trying His children when Judgment Day arrives. The reason could be that He didn’t appear to us formally as He did with the people of Israel and others like Moses, who saw Him physically. Some people who worship Satan or Lucifer may think they are worshipping God too. Because of such confusion, God could lose the appetite for trying His children on Judgment Day.

Judgment Day will be a day when we assemble before God, see His true physical shape, and see that troubling Lucifer who is responsible for many earthly ills like death.

God should indeed have sent His angels to guide us on how to follow His ways, rather than that freaked man Lucifer who seems to have filled that void.

God once asked Lucifer where he had been for a while, and Lucifer told Him, “I have been roaming around the Earth, checking on your people.” Lucifer only lives because God wills it so. God could have crushed the principal carrier of sin, Lucifer, but He has always waited for Judgment Day.

The intelligence quotient (IQ) of Lucifer is many millions higher than that of ordinary mortals, and humans may plead before God to punish the principal man responsible for sins on Earth.

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