The Bible teaches that every believer who died prior to the ascension of Christ went to an intermediate heaven called Paradise, or Abraham’s bosom (Luke 16:22, KJV). But when Jesus ascended after His death, He went into Paradise and took all who were there—all the Old Testament saints, all who had died and believed in God before the Ascension—with Him to the third heaven (Ephesians 4:8–10). This means that believers no longer go to the intermediate heaven upon death.