I believe that “to be absent from the body is to be with the Lord” (2 Cor.5), so the question would be where is Jesus now? The 9th chapter of Hebrews tells us that “He has entered the Most Holy Place”, and if this is not clear enough, in the 10th chapter the author adds that He has “sat down at the right hand of God”. I may not be as book smart as this bishop, but I firmly believe that Jesus is in heaven now, and when I die I will join Him there. Unless, of course, He comes back before I die. That doesn’t negate the description of the new earth in Revelation but until then, every born-again believer who has accepted God’s gift of salvation by faith in Jesus’ finished work at the Cross, is heaven-bound.
According to the Bishop, the Bible is clear that Jesus has been resurrected and is in ‘heaven’, but that our mortal deaths are not the resurrectory step that is required for us to enter that realm with him, but we must wait until Jesus comes back to earth, at which point we shall be resurrected and heaven and earth shall be one.