The Bible commends some notion of an intermediate state, which involves discontinuity and continuity with respect to our final destiny. There is an elemental continuity in that the spiritual presence of Almighty God, as well as the communion of the saints, may be enjoyed. And yet that interpersonal fellowship exists in a wholly spiritual state that is not yet resurrected or environmentally situated in a new heaven and new earth. We can define the intermediate state only in very broad strokes. It