What happens when we die!?
Did you know there are several verses that say we sleep in the dirt with our forefathers when we die? And the promise of immortality is not given until the 1st resurrection when Christ returns, and we spend eternity with the Lord according to the Bible.
We are told that we are given immortality at birth, which is NOT supported by scripture. Spirituality has been involved in religions for several generations now. We are told that when we die we immediately go to heaven or hell depending on whether or not we are saved which also contradicts scriptures.
The promise, yet to be fulfilled, is an eternal life.
We believe that our Father is a just God. How just would he be to send people to a burning pit a fire for centuries, millennia’s for punishment? Those who were not believers but were by human standards good people never harming anyone else; to have to spend eternity in equal torment as those who were murderers, rapist, and such; This would not be an act of a just and fair Father.
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just (lawful, righteous, correct) and right is he.
The truth in the scriptures is we sleep the sleep of death until the resurrection. The 1st resurrection is for the just who have died in Christ keeping the commandments, and those faithful in the old testament times, at this time those people will be given immortality. The 2nd resurrection, after the 1000 year reign, is for the unjust to be destroyed by Christ by hellfire until all sinful people are ashes under his feet, completely destroyed for all eternity including Lucifer and his fallen angels. Each person/angel will burn for the length of time of the sin in their life until complete annihilation has occurred. This is the final battle, Armageddon where sin is removed from existence. (See End Times Prophecy) All people who have died from the beginning of time to now are resting in peace asleep, the good and bad, waiting for the resurrection. RIP, we once knew what that meant.
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This is an act of a just Father. Not one who would burn someone for all eternity.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Glossary:
Words used, breath and spirit or ghost
H5397 nesama-wind, breath, spirit
G4151 pneuma-wind, breath, spirit
H6662 sadiq-Just, righteous, lawful, correct, right
Verese that prove we sleep until the day of resurrection, which has not yet come.
*Psalms 13:3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, ‘lest I sleep the sleep of death;*
*Jeremiah 51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.*
* Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again*
*Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them if forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.*
*John 11:11-14 & 23-25 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well, Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly. Lazarus is dead. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, “I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:*
*Luke 8:49 & 52-53 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing the she was dead.*
*Job 21:26 & 30 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.*
*Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.*
*Daniel 12:2 & 13 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to the shame and everlasting contempt. *
*Deu 31:16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with they fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring whither they go to be amount them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.*
*2 Sam 7:12 And when they days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of they bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.*
*1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
* Job 7:9-10, 21 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house neither shall his place know him any more. And why dost thou not pardon my transgressions, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.*
*1 Corinthians 15:18, 42, 51-54 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all SLEEP, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.*
*Job 14:12-14 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.*
*Psalms 22:29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.* (body and breath of God)
*Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give the light*
*Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:*
*Hebrews 9:27-28 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
*1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God Bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
*(End)Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that swell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Genesis 3:22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
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I encourage you to read the full chapters. Although I am listing individual verses this doesn’t mean that doctrines have been made by picking and choosing lines in scriptures. Also keep in mind the original text was not separated by verses and chapters. Each book was a full continual letter to the body of Christ or by a prophet.
Italics and parenthesis in scripture were not in the original text, these have been added by translators to interpret. In some cases, the interpretation is NOT correct or at least we do not interperate it correctly with the original intent. I believe the Word is written correctly, we just have to remove our own understanding and beliefs to see the TRUTH.
The KJV was last interpreted in 1611 during the reformation from the Catholic Church supervised by a King who was of protestant belief and many prior Catholic Priests. As the Catholic Church ruled with a fist of iron for 1260 years as predicted by scriptures. Killing anyone they could who did not share their (Catholic) beliefs world wide, calling them heretics. All protestants, in the beginning, of the protest found their beginnings in the Catholic church, and left making a protest to some of their beliefs but also kept some. The core beliefs to every protestant has false doctrines that tie back to the Catholic Church.
I also believe some books were left out of the Cannon based on those beliefs. I do not believe the Lord intended to have 66 books as his completed work for us to know and follow. Proof, is there are books spoken of in scriptures that are not in the Cannon; also quotes from scriptures that can’t be found in the Cannon “as it is written”.
Joshua 10:13, Numbers 21:14, 1 Chron 27:24, 29:29, 2 Chron 27:7, 35:27, 36:8, 9:1, 20:34, 33:18, 13:22, 12:15, 26:22, 20:34, Esther 1:23, 6:1, Mal 3:16, Dan 12:1, 7:10 Phil 4:3, Rev 20:11-12, 22:19, 5:1, 10:2
But I do believe that He allowed enough to remain intact for us to find the truth in His word.
What is the Final and Greatest promise in Scriptures? Eternal Life, Life Everlasting, Eternity with the Father and Christ
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or fathers, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Luke 18:30 Who shall not receive manifold more In this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
John 3:15, 16, 36 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John 4:14, 36 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
John 5:24, 39 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John 6:27, 40, 47, 54 (raise him up at the last day!) Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:for him hath God the Father sealed. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 12:25, 50 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life is this world shall keep it unto life eternal. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
John 17:2-3 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Acts 13:46, 48 The Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the work of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:22-23 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit (pneuma-breath) shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
1 Corinthians 15 1Co 15:1
1 Timothy 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
1 Timothy 6:12, 19 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Hebrews 9:12, 15 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1 John 5:11, 13, 20 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ, This is the true God, and eternal life.
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
When and how does scriptures say this will happen? In the resurrection. When Christ returns.
John 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (Good meaning to have the Faith of Christ and keep the commandments, evil meaning to not to)
John 6:54 (raise him up at the last day!) Whose eateth my flesh, and drinketh of my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 11:24-26 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
I Corinthians 15: all (resurrection mentioned in vs’12,13,21,42
1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you the be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
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