Question:
65.5—Do the people who believed in Christ, but died before His crucifixion go to heaven or live on the new earth?
Answer:
65.5—As indicated in the previous question those who believed in Christ before Christ died are part of the heavenly company (see Revelation 21:12,14). At least some of those who lived before the cross had the assurance from God’s Word that they would go to heaven. We are told that Abraham “looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” He along with Sarah, Isaac, and Jacob “confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth, and thus they “declared plainly” that they desired “a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city” (Hebrews