Indeed we die and receive our judgment immediately. Then we go to Heaven, -- if we are lucky enough, -- and to those still living we appear "asleep in the Lord". The general judgment will occur at some point, but the saints are in heaven as soon as they die, and their eternal life and communion with God continues and is more intense than when they were alive.
this day thou shalt be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:43)
You did not know that?
Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven (ouranois). And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Is there some slight of hand Catholics use to make them both the same?
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So then Paul lied to his Corinthian sheep?
1Corinthians 15:
[50] Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
[51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
[52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
[53] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
[54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Or did John misquote Yeshua's answer to Nicodemus?
John 3:13
"And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.".
Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.