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Acts 1:11
They said,“ Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen him going into heaven.”
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2 Timothy 2 12
if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;
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John 12:26
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
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1 Thessalonians 4 16-1 Thessalonians 4 17
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.Then we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
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John 14:28
You have heard me tell you,‘ I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
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2 Thessalonians 1 12-2 Thessalonians 2 1
so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him: We ask you, brothers and sisters,
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Revelation 21:22-23
I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
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1John 3:2-3
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Philippians 1:23
I am torn between the two. I long to depart and be with Christ— which is far better—
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John 14:18-23
“ I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too.On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you.The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”Judas( not Iscariot) said to him,“ Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”Jesus answered,“ If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
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Hebrews 9:28
so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
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John 17:24
“ Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.
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Romans 8:17
and if children, also heirs— heirs of God and coheirs with Christ— if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
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2 Corinthians 5 6-2 Corinthians 5 8
So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.For we walk by faith, not by sight.In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
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Acts 7:59-60
While they were stoning Stephen, he called out,“ Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”He knelt down and cried out with a loud voice,“ Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” And after saying this, he fell asleep.
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Matthew 25:32-34
All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on the left.Then the King will say to those on his right,‘ Come, you who are blessed by my Father; inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
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Revelation 3:21
“ To the one who conquers I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
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Revelation 22:3-5
and there will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him.They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.Night will be no more; people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.