Q&A — New bodies and the New Earth: souls wait, bodies come later at the resurrection

Mike believes believers go to heaven immediately at death but do not receive new bodies right away. New bodies come later, at the general resurrection. He notes the souls under the altar in Revelation are waiting for their bodies, asking 'how long?' His eschatology on the New Earth is roughly literal — a renewed, probably larger creation than the current one — but he holds this tentatively.