Are our dead loved ones sleeping or waiting for us in Heaven?

They're in Heaven. The line about sleeping after death is misinterpreted and not meant to be taken in a literal sense. I've had answered prayers from a few saints over the years and some loved ones have responded in some way to let us know they were ok.

Jesus came back, and said he would go away again and prepare a place for us, and where he goes we will go also. I take that to mean heaven, not a hole in the ground.

I believe you. Looking forward to it.

No. If Heaven exists, they probably have better things to do than worry about your Earthly problems.

No, the righteous are sleeping until the first resurrection:

The first resurrection is mentioned in Revelation 20: "This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years" (Revelation 20:5b-6). Those involved in the first resurrection will already be raised to life prior to the 1,000-year reign of Christ called the millennium.

The second resurrection is described in Revelation 20:12-13: "And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done." This group will include those who are unbelievers who will be assigned by judgment to the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15).

Between these two resurrections is the 1,000-year millennial kingdom. Believers reign with the Lord during this period and have already been resurrected. Unbelievers are described in Revelation 20:5 as, "The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended."

To escape Aggregate Matter, one would need to ascend beyond the Great Celestial Sphere. That is where the Heavens reside. We sleep until we rise in Christ.

Those who “judge” others here, like those bashing the Adventist, best start reading their Bibles better. Who are you to judge man now, here on Earth? I pray you get this correct one day.

You forgot all the other cult churches to include the Catholic Church right? For those that follow blindly without knowledge are in a cult. I would say those in the Seventh Day Church may just know more about the real words written in the bible then those that sit in and listen without reading the bible themselves. Do you know how mad I would have been at Jesus if he raised me from the dead to come back to this world, if we were "in Heaven". You are sleeping until the days of judgement where everyone will be judged and move to the next realm of heaven or be destroyed in the lake of fire.

This is like telling people who have ridden in a car that cars don’t exist because you haven’t ridden in one.

You can’t come up with proof of what gravity is, or dark matter, or how fast galaxies are moving apart, or what consciousness is, or what the collapse of the wave function actually is, or whether the universe is actually infinite, or what time actually is, or what happened at the moment of the Big Bang, or what came before it, or exactly how biology managed to start, or whether there are more than one universe, or if there are really those string things or not.

But you know for absolute certain that God doesn’t exist.

Yeah, you’ll pardon me if I don’t buy into your imaginary assertion.

Nay, the Spirits are always active.

If you say to me "Rest in peace", I will say to you "I am in peace and do not need any rest!"

My dad (who was dead) showed up when my mom was dying...so I don't believe the dead are sleeping.

But even if they were sleeping...it wouldn't matter because we are not aware of the passage of time when we sleep. So if you were sleeping for 2 seconds or 10,000 years...it wouldn't matter.

The saved ones are present with the Lord awaiting the resurrection of their bodies.

The unsaved ones are tormented in hellfire.