Personally, I prefer to see my Savior greeting me with open arms. (BTW, which do you think will be more crowded, Heaven or Hell? Just food for thought.)
I look forward to seeing my loved ones who had the hope of heaven...but first and foremost, I want to see Jesus.
“Behold the kingdom of heaven is amoung you”
Many years ago my mother was severely burned and not expected to live. As she lay dying she saw heaven opened and began to float up toward JESUS! However, he did NOT have his arms out to greet her. He said to her..”You have three little babies”. Then she began to float back down.
She survived her burns and lived another forty two years before dying of renal failure. As she lay dying again she was talking to someone in the room. My sister asked who she was talking to and she said “Those men in black there. One is standing and one is sitting in the chair there”. There was no one else in the room but my sister and mom. She died a few days later.
Scared the tar out of my sister!
My mom never told us about her first experience till we were middle aged.
I had someone relate his experience, He wasn’t feeling well and had a massive heart attack in front of the doctor at the entrance of the hospital. He stated he worked hard all his life and asked the doctor not to give up on him, and the doctor and his team went longer than usual in trying to resucitate him and later the doctor told him he could not explain why he lived. Part of his story is that he saw a light at the end of a tunnel and watched it “rain cats and dogs” of people going downward to hell and a few going up to heaven.
I hope and pray that more people will go to heaven. I am trying to work on a very Liberal former Catholic now an aethist in his 70’s. It is an uphill battle. God is very forgiving, but individuals need to accept and Love God.