Five Things We Will Learn
- What Bob Jones witnessed in heaven — including the two lines of humanity and what determined their eternal destination.
- The question Jesus asked every soul before entering heaven.
- How angels gain eternal testimony through helping believers on earth.
- Why love, not works or miracles, is the ultimate test of a life well lived.
- The moment God told Bob Jones to return to earth — and what He said about his mission.
The Moment Heaven Opened
Bob Jones begins his story already standing in heaven.
“My thoughts were this: ‘Bobby, you finally made it. This is the greatest day you’ve ever lived. You’re going home to the Lord — and you’re clean. You did what He told you to do.’”
As he waited in a long line approaching the Lord, Bob looked to his left — and what he saw forever marked him.
Two Lines — Two Destinies
Ninety-eight percent (98%) of humanity, he said, was in that other line. They weren’t going where he was going. They were going to serve in eternity the very gods they had served on earth.
“I saw men wrapped in dollar bills — that was their god.
I saw a man inside a whiskey bottle — that was his god.
I saw men that looked like drugs — that was their god.
I saw a man wrapped in lust — that was his god on earth.”
Every person in that line looked toward the Lord and gasped, “It was true.”
They had mocked, laughed, and denied Him — yet they knew all along. One by one, they slipped away into darkness where light would never return.
“Did You Learn to Love?”
Turning back toward the Lord, Bob saw a radiant Black woman surrounded by nearly a hundred angels. A faceless man beside him explained that she had been a great minister on earth, and those angels had helped her.
When she reached Jesus, He asked her only one question:
“Did you learn to love?”
She lifted her arms and said, “Yes, Lord!” — and He embraced her, kissed her, and she entered into His heart as if through great double doors.
Bob then realized the angels went in with her because they had shared in her testimony. Heaven remembered every act done in love.
He watched again as a little girl entered — crippled on earth, yet powerful in prayer. The Lord asked her the same question, and she too answered, “Yes, Lord.”
Finally came an elderly woman, arthritic and frail, who confessed, “I learned to love only You. Most of my life I spent biting the saints.”
Jesus replied, “But you loved Me and embraced Me — therefore you’re saved. But you have no works.”
Then He kissed her, and she entered.
Bob’s Turn
Now it was Bob’s turn.
He thought, “This is it! No more pain. No more rejection. I’m going home.”
But the Lord held up His hand.
“Stop. The enemy killed you before your time, and I want you to go back.”
Bob protested, “I’m not doing any good. Nobody’s listening to me.”
The Lord replied:
“You’re a liar. You spoke what I told you to speak. If you had spoken on your own, you’d have failed — but you spoke My words, and they will not return void. They will accomplish what I please.”
Bob pleaded, “It’s so painful down there — the rejection, the persecution.”
The Lord said gently, “Yes. You’ve got a bit of a cowardly streak in you — but I’ll work that out.”
Then He reminded Bob, “When you were a Baptist, you had a love for souls. If you still want to come in, I’ll take you in — after you look again at that line.”
Bob turned and saw the endless line of souls bound for eternal separation, serving the gods they had served on earth.
Then came his answer.
“I’d go back for one soul,” he said. “I’d go back to the cross for one soul.”
And with that, the Lord sent him back — not as punishment, but as purpose.
The Eternal Question
From that encounter, Bob carried one message that defined his life from then on:
“Did you learn to love?”
Everything else — gifts, ministries, miracles — was secondary. In the end, heaven’s question is not how much you accomplished, but how much you loved.
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