THE BIBLICAL TEACHINGS,
about the Resurrection and the condition of human beings in death is full of hope!
We have no need, when at the loss of a loved one, while, we are hurting, thus we have little need to take the words of men, and their silly Satanic notions of a ever punishing hell, No wonder The Bible's Author saw fit to have this written----
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."
As well as this: John 14:19 "Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also."
NOTE: ALL, who believe and accept Christ in loving obedience shall live again after death, via HIS RESURRECTION at the time of His Return! That's according to the Bible, an d not as many apostates teach! If anyone knowingly teaches falsely, look at -----
2 Peter 2:1 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction."
We Seventh day Adventists differ from the majority of "Christians", in their understanding what happens during the time of our death and the Resurrection. We believe what the Bible teaches, and not what many men teach.
NOTE: This way is much safer, agree?
We believe in the unity of the Person [Genesis 2:7] and in the impossibility of a conscious existence apart from the body. There's absolutely no basis nor foundation there will a reunion of the body and the soul, that was somehow separated at death!
In both the Hebrew and the Greek, there is no words that are translated as "SOUL" in English, simply means the living person---Gen. 2:7, "...God breathed into his nostrils and man became a living soul."
AT DEATH then is simply the reverse, our last breath returns to He who created us, and we return to the dust of the earth, from whence we came!
Men, do err, in thinking that man have an ETERNAL SOUL, only God has immortality until Jesus Returns for His elect! The bible teaches that mankind as a living being is a soul, and when that living soul, the human being stops breathing death takes us! It is the reverse of OUR, Creation!
Ecclesiastes 9:5 " 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 is forgotten."
THE BIBLE C ALL OUR DEATH "A SLEEP".
John 11:11 "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."
Note Please read this account of Lazarus, who by the time Jesus got there, he was dead four days, yet Jesus did not say COME DOWN, nor COME UP, but COME OUT! Now if as many teach, he was in heaven, for 4 days, why was he still bound up in his funeral wraps? No knives or scissors in heaven? Would YOU be a happy camper if you were in heaven for 4 days and suddenly found your self in your old worn-out body, here on earth again? THINK! SELAH!
Plus, if all the just are resurrected at death to heaven why is written, in many places that Christ will resurrect all His own at His return, and why the need to return? Biblical ignorance is the only explanation is it not? Willful or otherwise!
Please allow reality to seep into Y O U when I ask this question: "IF, and only IF, God takes us to heaven at our death, speaking of the just, only, how would they feel, and how could they be blissfully happy when they can see all the pain and suffering all, including their own loved ones, still fighting for survival on earth?
Note: That's not the Bible's telling us about life in heaven for His own now is it? Is it Satan, that is constantly feeding us disinformation, lies, and, deceptions? THINK for your selves and not the "ONE VERSE CHARLIES" at the Pulpits!
Please know, the Bible says nothing, about a CONSCIOUS SOUL, nor of a SPIRIT that can survive the death of a body, but it does say much about life after death.It affirms that death comes to all, both the just and the unjust, alike. But it describes a future that is vastly different for each member of each group!
John 5:28-29 "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 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."
After "resting," in the dust, until the resurrection by Jesus, the dead shall live again to receive the results of the choices they have made, in their life. Those who have accepted Christ's offer in---
John 3:15-16 "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"
----- will receive the gift of immortality---[ 1 Corinthians 15:50-55.] Those who have chosen to reject this offer, leaves God, who loves them enough to give them what they desire, a total separation, from the Sustainer of Life itself The Father-God!. Thus they can NOT continue to receive the gift of life, from God, and they shall forever perish, in the Second Death, for it is final! WHY?
Revelation 20:14-15 "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
Sin began with Satan[ REV.12] AND with him reduced to ashes, he shalt never more be! Thus the final end of sin! Sin being the transgression of the Law of God's Ten Pillars!
God can not, and will not permit sin nor selfishness [are not both the same thing?] to exist in the coming perfect universe!
THE RESURRECTION:
At the Second coming of christ, the saints of ALL ages will each receive their inheritance all at the very same time...
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 "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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.""
On the Resurrection morning each one of God's own will be a new Creation. Yhey shall receive the same Glorious Body that christ arose with fron His tomb, near 2,000 years ago. Each will still recognise their loved ones and friends will do the same , those who will walk Heavens streerts shall be the same ones who walked upon this earth. It is comforting that God will preserve out identity and character we had going into the grave, but coming out will be a new forever lasting body.
Song of Solomon 8:6 "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame"
Note Death is the enemy of both God and man! Becuse it robs the life of those He loves, YOU ans Me!
We therefore consider death to be our enemy, but one that's not to be feared! We confront it confidently, committing ourselves to our loving Heavenly Father, and our older Brother Jesus, whose victory over the grave is also ours to claim in Jesus!.
A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
An Adventist who discovered that he was the victim of an incurable disease, illustrates this kind of confidence or better known as FAITH/TRUST. When he wrote to a close family member this: "Last Tuesday, the original diagnosis was confirmed. As you can well imagine, it was difficult to accept, but I know that everything will turn out OK. God can work miracles. That night, my wife and I had a long serious talk and together we faced everything about this situation realistically for the first time. Sometimes I think that God tests the fervor of mourn prayers so that we can examine our faith. It doesn't matter what happens. Time is very short for anything to do with this earth. It occurred to us to compare our situation to a father who tells his little son that's it's time to go to bed. The child may object and say he wants to stay up a little longer, but the father says, m"Son, tomorrow will be a better day, a day in which you can play as you would like."
"if that is what god is telling me, why should I question His wisdom?"
Note: (JB) God KNOWS the future, and perhaps He sees things that may hit us far worse than our demise!
For Further Study: Ecclesiates 9:5-6. . John 5:24. Romans 6:23; 8:35-39; 1 Corinthians 15;51-54. 1 Timothy 6:15-16. Revelation 20:1-10.
NEXT: THE MILLENNIUM AND THE END OF SIN.
NEXT: THE MILLENNIUM AND THE END OF SIN.
THANK Y O U for your time.
Comments? Questions? John at www.servant@frontier.com
Visit your Seventh-day Adventist church, any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM. If you want to find Biblical truth for it proves itself within itself!
Note:"Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished."
The word seven appears 331 X in OT, and 74 times in N.T. or 404 times total. From Adam and Eve, to the now is close to 6,000 years,add another 1,000 years after Christ's return for the Millennium and we are at 7 thousand, There are no errors nor co-incidents in God's Word!. And none is able to seek forgiveness and repent from the grave, so why not today? Or are you will to be "Blotted Out", as if never even existed? No legacy in that is there? Besides your Father in heaven and I want YOU there!
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