(don't worry Lafftur - I know it is off-topic, and it is a very divisive one. This is my last post on the matter).
Who are you talking about, stillness? It is clear from the passages already quoted that David is not in heaven. So who does go there? ..just believers since Christ? It doesn't really make sense.
But what are you 'convinced' of? Is it an immortal soul? This goes all the way back to Genesis..
God said:
Gen 2:17 ..but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it
you shall surely die.
Satan said:
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said to the woman,
You shall not surely die,
One of these statements must be wrong. Who do you believe?
(Yes, Adam and Eve did live on for a while, but only because of the blood sacrifice of an animal, establishing the model of substitutionary sacrifice..
Gen 3:7 ..And they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made girdles for themselves.
Gen 3:21 And for Adam and his wife Jehovah God made
coats of skins, and clothed them).
So what is death? Is it just apparent earthly death, while we enjoy life beyond the grave?
Ecc 9:5 ..but
the dead do not know anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Ecc 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might;
for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
Sounds a lot like 'sleep' to me, in need of resurrection to overcome.
Sleep = Death
Joh 11:11 Our friend
Lazarus sleeps. But I go so that I may awaken him out of sleep.
Joh 11:12 Then His disciples said, Lord, if he sleeps, he will get well.
Joh 11:14 Then Jesus said to them plainly,
Lazarus is dead.
So when is resurrection? Has it already happened?
2Ti 2:16 But shun profane, vain babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.
2Ti 2:17 And their word will eat like a gangrene; among whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,
2Ti 2:18 who have
erred concerning the truth,
saying that the resurrection is already past, and who overthrow the faith of some.
Ok, so when?
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, and afterward they who are Christ's
at His coming;
When?
Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the
trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
(Rev 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound).
1Co 15:52 ..in a moment, in a glance of an eye,
at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.
I know this all goes against long tradition, but I do think it stacks up. And it doesn't detract anything from the narrative, I think it makes the work of Christ on the cross all that much more important. The death of Jesus on the cross is much more than a nice gesture to show God's love, it is crucial for the forgiveness of everyone, ever.
Anyway, enough - the defence rests.
..or am I an offence?
(Now, if anyone is going to refute my position, please, please provide scriptural references. I truly am open minded in search of truth, I just haven't found anything to the contrary on this point. And before anyone throws me the 'absent from the body, present with the Lord' line, skip it. It is a one off unclear passage (that is probably poorly translated) that is way over used - because its all you have. All the plain passages point a different way, whether we like it or not).