# Does the Book of Revelation actually say how people get to heaven in the end times? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-book-of-revelation-actually-say-how-people-get-to-heaven-in-the-end-times/851669 "2020-04-13T01:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-book-of-revelation-actually-say-how-people-get-to-heaven-in-the-end-times/851669/41 "2020-04-19T02:50:09Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > i remember every Sunday a channel would show something called “the world tomorrow” (heres more [the world tomorrow - Search](https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=SK2DDF&PC=SK2D&q=the+world+tomorrow) ) which was not much other than a slight sermon that showed how 80s politics and society was leading everyone straight to hell via the book of revelation via a rotating cast of preachers > > and the rest an infomercial showing how the second coming of god was just around the corner and if you subscribed to the magazine and bought the books and tapes for x amount of dollars you could learn the secrets that the wicked Jewish catholic mooslem (that’s how the rev. cracker pronounced it )(it was assumed atheists were permanently lost) and any other"false" religion that wasn’t good ol fundamentalist American bible stumpin were ignoring and save your soul … That was an infamous doomsday cult. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-book-of-revelation-actually-say-how-people-get-to-heaven-in-the-end-times/851669/42 "2020-04-19T02:53:42Z")
> [@Dark\_Sponge](#): > > Yes, the idea is that the living followers will be “caught up” to join **the dead who are already with God.** Some take this to mean they will completely disappear and others to mean their souls will be taken up and their bodies left behind. SO…Jesus and those two guys who ascended in the OT without dying? No wait…three… As for everyone else…arnt they in the ground waiting on Jesus? So as I understand it and im almost certainly wriong, here’s how the population for Heaven went: Two guys who were taken in the OT Jesus The thief who was nice to Jesus The Rapture Everyone else who died before Jesus came back in Revelations and are worthy of entry. If people are scratching their heads, I’m pretty sure that the Bible says every person who gets to go to Heaven stays in the ground til Jesus comes back. Finally… _I THINK_ anyone left behind by the Rapture but managed to earn a spot. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-book-of-revelation-actually-say-how-people-get-to-heaven-in-the-end-times/851669/43 "2020-04-19T03:53:39Z")
In Revelation, toward the end, it says that each person’s name will be looked up in the Book of Life and, if it is there, they go to heaven, if it is not there, cast into the lake of fire. What is missing is the how names end up in that book. I remember this from my ABC upbringing. You cannot guess the mind of jehovallah or by what standard it will vet your worthiness. You just have to have the unerring faith or something, and hope that you and your loved ones kept that Virgin Mary on the dashboard of your car, to keep you from being sent to hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-book-of-revelation-actually-say-how-people-get-to-heaven-in-the-end-times/851669.md?page=2)