![]() ![]() My sister-in-law recently died, who had been sick for a little over a year however, she was make good progress in recovering from her illness. This is also why we continue to be surprised when someone dies, even when they were very sick. I think, my opinion only, that there is something within all of us that knows that "death" was not originally supposed to happen it was only after sin that death became a reality. How, then, might one argue that, in one sense, the dead have it better than we the living do? The next thing they know is the return of Christ. ![]() ![]() They close their eyes in death and, whether in the grave 1500 years or 5 months, it’s all the same to them. The life is hid with Christ in God, and ’when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.’ John 8:51-52 Colossians 3:4.” - Ellen G. … To the Christian, death is but a sleep, a moment of silence and darkness. No wonder that “to the believer, death is but a small matter. Second, there is an amazing reward waiting for those who die in Christ. First of all, there is no everlasting burning hell or temporary purgatory waiting for those who die unsaved. The biblical teaching of unconsciousness in death should not generate any panic in Christians. These statements confirm the biblical teaching that the dead are unconscious. This is a perfect biblical depiction of what happens at death.Īnd Ecclesiastes chapter 9 adds that “the dead know nothing” and in the grave “there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom” ( Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ecclesiastes 9:10, NKJV). ![]() This hardly sounds as if the dead, the faithful (and thankful) dead, are in heaven worshiping God.Īccording to Psalm chapter 146, the mental activities of the individual cease with death: “His spirit departs, he returns to the earth on that very day his plans perish” ( Psalm 146:4, NASB). Psalm chapter 115 defines the location where the dead are kept as a place of silence, because “the dead do not praise the LORD” ( Psalm 115:17, NKJV). (In the more dire moments, who hasn’t wished that he or she had never been born?) He recognizes that if he had died at his birth, he would remain asleep and at rest ( Job 3:11, Job 3:13). First, in Job chapter 3, the patriarch deplores his own birth, due to all the suffering. ![]()
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