When Christians die, they enter into what is often called the “intermediate state,” a transitional period between their past lives on Earth and their future resurrection to life on the New Earth. By definition, an intermediate state or location is temporary. “Intermediate” does not mean a halfway place that’s only sort of Heaven, but the place where we will live between our lives here and the “final” Heaven that will be centered on the New Earth. Life in the Heaven we go to when we die is “far better”