What happens when we die? Do we come back as a grasshopper or a horse? Or does my body disappear and all that exist is my spirit floating in the air? let us take a closer look at the dead.
Ecclesiastes 12:7. At death the body goes back to dust; the spirit returns to God who gave it. This spirit which returns to God is not some entity which is capable of a conscious existence apart from the body, but it is the breath of life (James 2:26, margin), which God gave to man to make him a living, conscious personality. Genesis 2:7. At death, that life passes into God's hands for safekeeping till the resurrection.
Ecclesiastes 12:7. At death the body goes back to dust; the spirit returns to God who gave it. This spirit which returns to God is not some entity which is capable of a conscious existence apart from the body, but it is the breath of life (James 2:26, margin), which God gave to man to make him a living, conscious personality. Genesis 2:7. At death, that life passes into God's hands for safekeeping till the resurrection.
David expected to go to heaven when he should awake from the sleep of death on the resurrection morn at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Psalm 17:15.
The righteous do not go to heaven until the coming of Jesus Christ at the last day. 1 Thessalonian 2:19; John 14:1 All life after death depends on the resurrection. Thessalonian 4:16, 17.
One thousand years after David had died, Peter declared that David was not in heaven. This proves that the righteous do not go to heaven when they die. Acts 2:34.
One thousand years after David had died, Peter declared that David was not in heaven. This proves that the righteous do not go to heaven when they die. Acts 2:34.
1 Corinthians 15:16-18. " For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins." It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.Without the resurrection, the good people who have died are perished. This could not be true if they went to heaven when they died. If the righteous went to heaven when they died, there would be no need of a resurrection. There could be no reason for Christ to come back to this earth the second time to gather His saints (John 14:3) if they had already gone to heaven at death. If the wicked go to hell-fire at death, and the righteous to heaven at death, there is no need of a judgement day at the end of time, or for Christ to come to reward every man according to his works. Matthew 16:27; Revelation 22:12. This idea of a person going to hell or heaven at death does not support the Bible doctrine of the resurrection, the coming of Christ, and the judgement t at the last day. There is no text in the Bible which, when rightly interpreted, teaches that anybody goes to hell or heaven at death, because the Bible does not contradict its own teachings.
All go to one place at death
Ecclesiastes 3:20. All go to one place at death, and that one place is the grave, where all turn to dust again. Job 30:23; John 5:28, 29. "Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice and come out of their graves: those who have done good will rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned." The Bible never speaks of the soul or spirit going out of the body at death to maintain, or to become capable of maintaining, a conscious existence somewhere else. Eight times the Bible speaks of the soul as going into the grave. Acts 2:31; Job 33:18, 22, 28, 30; Psalm 30:3; 89:48; Isaiah 38:17.
Ecclesiastes 3:20. All go to one place at death, and that one place is the grave, where all turn to dust again. Job 30:23; John 5:28, 29. "Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice and come out of their graves: those who have done good will rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned." The Bible never speaks of the soul or spirit going out of the body at death to maintain, or to become capable of maintaining, a conscious existence somewhere else. Eight times the Bible speaks of the soul as going into the grave. Acts 2:31; Job 33:18, 22, 28, 30; Psalm 30:3; 89:48; Isaiah 38:17.
When a man dies, his soul is unconscious till the, resurrection. Psalm 146:3, 4. "Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human being can save you. When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end.
The dead praise not the Lord
If the righteous went to heaven when they died, they would certainly be praising God now, but this text says that the dead praise not the Lord. Psalm 115:17. "The Lord is not praised by the dead, by any who go down to the land of silence."
If the righteous went to heaven when they died, they would certainly be praising God now, but this text says that the dead praise not the Lord. Psalm 115:17. "The Lord is not praised by the dead, by any who go down to the land of silence."
The dead do not knows nothing
The dead do not know anything about what takes place on the earth after they die, because they are unconscious. Thus we understand that the dead are unconscious, just as a person is unconscious who is in a deep sleep. The breath of life from God made Adam a living soul, a conscious being, and when that breath of life was taken away at his death, it would necessarily leave him to be a dead soul, an unconscious being, till the resurrection, when that breath of life or spirit is put back into him again. Job 14:21.
The dead do not know anything about what takes place on the earth after they die, because they are unconscious. Thus we understand that the dead are unconscious, just as a person is unconscious who is in a deep sleep. The breath of life from God made Adam a living soul, a conscious being, and when that breath of life was taken away at his death, it would necessarily leave him to be a dead soul, an unconscious being, till the resurrection, when that breath of life or spirit is put back into him again. Job 14:21.
The dead do not know anything. The lapse of time between a Christian's death and Jesus' second coming, the glorious resurrection day, will seem to him like an instant. To him it will seem but the next moment after he closes his eyes in death when he awakes to be with his blessed Savior forever.
None will go ahead of those who have died
The first righteous man who died will awaken and stand in Christ's presence at the same time as the last man who dies. 1 Thessalonian 4:15-17 "What we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died. There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first; then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord." To each the elapsed time between death and the resurrection will seem but a moment. Ecclesiastes 9:5,
None will go ahead of those who have died
The first righteous man who died will awaken and stand in Christ's presence at the same time as the last man who dies. 1 Thessalonian 4:15-17 "What we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died. There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first; then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord." To each the elapsed time between death and the resurrection will seem but a moment. Ecclesiastes 9:5,
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