Will We Know One Another in Heaven (Pack of 5)

“How could I be happy in heaven if my husband is not there?” “I am the only Christian in my family. How could I enjoy heaven by myself?”

A baby is born in a home. The grandmother dies; she goes to heaven and is expecting to eventually see her little grandchild—a baby—there. A little later the baby’s older brother dies, and he goes to heaven, but he expects to eventually see a little child there. Years pass, and the mother dies, and she expects to see her teenage son there. Years pass; he marries, but tragically his wife dies. She expects a husband—a middle-aged man—there. Years pass, and the man’s grandchild dies, and the grandchild expects her grandfather there. Which will it be? The baby, child, teen, man, or grandfather?

The answer could be that we shall know each other in heaven by intuitive knowledge. Knowing each other may not be through physical characteristics. We may even know
people we have never met on earth, like family members waiting there for us who died before we were born, and Bible characters like Abraham, David, and Paul. Peter, James, and John somehow knew Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration (Luke 9:28–33; 2 Peter 1:16), although they had never met them. Intuitive knowledge
also seems to be implied in Matthew 8:11.

If an infant dies, will she still be an infant in heaven? Preachers have sometimes suggested the mother’s arms that ached for her departed child will have the opportunity of holding her infant and that the child will grow up with her parents in heaven. It is a tender thought, but is it true? I do not know. We can know that God will take away the pain that such parents feel (Revelation 21:4). We can say for sure that infants go to heaven (2 Samuel 12; Matthew 18:3). We cannot know what God has not revealed (Deuteronomy 29:29).