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Mike,

I would like to Thank You and your team at IWWB. Our father has truly blessed all of you. And sorry if this e- mail address is not the correct venue for questions. I could not find any other links to e- mail questions.
I have a question I looked on your site but did not see it, sorry if I missed it. I have recently been led to your site by our father about six months ago so I am still learning and very painfully, as everything I thought I knew I now am beginning to be shown is completely wrong. But thank our Father for starting his works in me to open my eyes and ears to his truth.
But to the question I was wondering about is: Family if they die in the flesh will we know them when all is said and done and we are all with our Father. Will I know the spirit that was my earthly father and mother etc. or will this no longer be an issue? Sorry if this is a silly question, Mike, just something that has been nagging me as my father passed years ago, but I still do love and miss him. Thank you for your time, Mike. I know you are always very busy.

Your Little Brother in Christ our Lord,
M____

Hi M____,

Thank you for realizing that this is indeed a group effort. None of this would be on the internet if it all depended on me and my totally nonexistent technical expertise. This is truly a miraculous work of our Lord.

Thank you also for your question.
You ask:

If [ family members] die in the flesh will we know them when all is said and done and we are all with our Father. Will I know the spirit that was my earthly father and mother etc. or will this no longer be an issue. Sorry if this is a silly question Mike, just something that has been nagging me as my father passed years ago, but I still do love and miss him.

First let me assure you that this is not a “silly question.” We all have this question, and while it may not be the most pressing issue in our lives, it is a question that we all have.
The answer to this question is a definite yes! We will “know the spirit of our earthly father and mother. Joseph specifically saw His mother, father and brothers, all bowing down to him in a vision that he was given several years after the physical death of his mother.

Gen 37:5  And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
Gen 37:6  And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
Gen 37:7  For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Gen 37:8  And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Gen 37:9  And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Gen 37:10  And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

So there is no doubt that we will recognize our loved ones, and they will eventually recognize us in the resurrection. But you are asking about whether this recognition will continue beyond the all in all?
There is a Biblical principle which assures us that we will not lose our identity in the all in all. That is the principle that God never goes backward. God always goes forward.

Eze 1:9  Their wings [ were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Eze 1:12  And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; [ and] they turned not when they went.
Eze 10:22  And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.

… and finally this verse:

Eze 24:14  I the LORD have spoken it] it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Hos 11:4  I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Hos 11:5  He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

God chastens, disciplines and judges us for our sins. It is He who sends us to “the Assyrian”. ‘The Assyrian’ is the same as our time in Babylon. We will go into Babylon, but He will never allow us to return into Egypt, because He has predetermined that being in Babylon is a necessary part of our “one event to all”.

Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

God’s elect want to return to Egypt, but God says “I will not go back.”

While there is very little written on this subject other than the few verses which mention “all in all”, the phrase “all in all” itself strongly indicates that we will still know and recognize each other even when all is said and done and the eons have run their course. God is not doing all that He is doing in the aions just to go back to being what He was before the beginning of the aions.

1Co 12:6  And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Eph 1:19  And what [ is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us- ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [ him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [ places],
Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23  Which [ the church] is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

“The spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ” is “the church, which is His body” (Col 1:24), which fills Christ, who in turn fills His Father.
I hope this helps you to see that “the Lord will not go back” to when we did not exist, and that the wording in every instance is “that God will be all in all” and not simply ‘That God will be all.’

Your brother in Christ,
Mike