Judgement day: more than just heaven and hell

Where do we go after God judges us? A simple answer is heaven or hell. In one sense that is correct; either we are damned, our progress is stopped, and we go to "hell," or we are judged to be with God and go to "heaven."

The Holy Bible indicates that that description is an oversimplification. Jesus says:

John 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

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.

Many mansions are in the Father's kingdom. Rarely on earth are houses identical. Further explanation follows:

I Corinthians 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

There we have it-- three kingdoms exist. One is like the sun, one is like the moon, and one is like the stars. It is abundantly clear that there are at least three kindoms of glory. More proof of such a concept is shown by the following excerpt:

II Corinthians 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Since there are different levels in God's kingdom, it follows that there are different qualifications for entry into each level. It is incumbent on each of us to find out where we want to go and why. We need to research how to get there.

Some people say a belief in Jesus Christ is a prerequisite to entry into heaven. Which heaven? Do we need to do something to be judged worthy to enter the "third heaven?"