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When David's infant son died he said, "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me" (2 Samuel 12:23). This indicates that infants go to be with the Lord at death since that is where David went.
Also, Psalm 27:10, "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up". It is easy to see how there will be a great multitude which no man can number in heaven.
None of those interpretations square with Scripture. We can't bypass the resurrection at the last day. Hebrews go though this an concludes: Heb 11:39 And having obtained witness through the belief, all these did not receive the promise,c Footnote: cSee Heb_11:13.
Heb 11:40 Elohim having provided what is better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
Act 2:34 “For Dawiḏ did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself said, ‘יהוה said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand,
And if anyone should know, it's: Joh 3:13 “And no one has gone up into the heaven except He who came down from the heaven – the Son of Aḏam.
People await the resurrection from a state of SLEEP...
1Co 15:51 See, I speak a secret to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible has to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, “Death is swallowed up in overcoming.” Isa_28:5.
"The one who says he stays in Him is indebted to walk, even as He walked." 1Jn 2:6
Without Torah, His walk is impossible - it's Rome's walk without Torah.