John 14:3
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
John, where did Jesus go to prepare a place for you? And what does he say, "there you may be also".
“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. [SUP]
2 [/SUP]In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. [SUP]
3 [/SUP]If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am,
there you may be also. [SUP]
4 [/SUP]And you know the way where I am going.”
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Thomas *said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” [SUP]
6 [/SUP]Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
You do not suppose that we will all be staying over at the New (Earthly/Stone) Temple in Jerusalem, do you?
No, He is talking about heaven.
You quoted it yourself...
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
He comes back to the earth.
Joh 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away,
and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Hebrews 11:13-16
[SUP]13 [/SUP]All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. [SUP]14 [/SUP]For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. [SUP]15 [/SUP]And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. [SUP]16 [/SUP]But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
We will go to heaven (or someplace else) pending our judgment. And those who have accepted Jesus Christ will have Him as their "representative" - that's the only way we get in.
And they what?
Heb 11:13 These all died in faith,
not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
When do they?
Heb 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
Heb 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
When we do and when is that?
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
At the resurrection at Christ's return...
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's
at his coming.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
At the last trump. What will we do?
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Zec 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
His throne will be on earth and that is where we will be.