Chapter 14.1
Death
The final chapter – The end or the beginning?
Is it about the trip or the Destination?
First
Word
Webster - Death: Departed, no longer living, without feeling,
motion, or power. – A permanent ending of all life in a person. – The time of
the greatest darkness.
The Bible - Death: Called
sleep[1]
– Giving up the Ghost[2]
– Going to the fathers[3]
– Putting off this tabernacle[4]
– Requiring the Soul[5]
- Being cut down.[6]
An
Unfinished Life
What
good can possibly come from a young person leaving behind an unfinished
life; not achieving a good education, a good job or getting married or having
children or carrying on the family name, or a hundred other possible things?
What
possible good can come from a 10 day old baby dying leaving the parents grief
stricken? Is God so cruel that He would
do such a thing? We see so much violence
in electronic games as well as on TV; people die all the time, all over the
world, sickness - disease – famine - accidents –
drive by shootings – meanness – evil – war… We are just numb to
it
What is not portrayed is the AFTERMATH; the family that is left behind, the devastation, the agony, the pain, the memories and
even guilt. Is it somehow
my fault? Could I have done
something different to have prevented this?
Did God
do it or was it Satan?
It’s hard to understand the Sovereignty
of God because we see through a
glass somewhat dimly now, but one day when we are face to face with Jesus
Christ we will see things clearly.[7]
Theologically Speaking - Death Sucks.
I felt the air
being sucked out of the room as my legs turned to rubber.
My son was
doubled over the casket of his son, only 21, killed in an auto accident.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Mixed
Emotions, Feelings, Pain
Death is irrevocable and irreversible: It’s like the music just stopped in the middle
of a song playing… A flower with the blossom cut off… Why God, Why?
I didn’t spend enough time with him and now all I have is time. “Good Grief.” Does he know how much he took from me when he
left?
This didn’t happen to someone else on TV, it happened to me. I’m not on the bank of the river watching the
water pass by… I’m in the water… I’m drowning… People come
up to speak a word of encouragement… I hate it when they do that… I hate it
when they don’t… I’m a mess.
The pain is like the canopy of the sky; everywhere I look, I remember. It repeats over and over again; wave after
wave of mixed emotions. God may have
been finished with him, but I wasn’t; Oh, the hurt!
For no reason certain smells,
sounds, music, laughter or a word can
bring tears to my eyes. I have weird dreams… I
feel a faint, nausea, utter mad words, have resentment… my chest tightens… my
heart flutters. My body can suffer 10 times more than my
mind; Why Lord,
Why?
I don’t want anyone around me… I told them not to come… but I’m grateful
for the ones that didn’t listen and came anyway; some came from 175 miles away
and I needed them. I didn’t want to
talk, but it just pours out of me anyway.
I speak his name into the air with words of
love and endearment.
My thoughts jump off into the depths of my mind, not even hearing those
speaking to me. I want to pray for him,
but what can I pray? I sing praises to God and somehow I feel I am
enjoying him… I know for sure he is with the Father… I am
progressing day by day.
My sorrow is not a “state”, it’s a process.
Stuff
Happens
In the movie Forrest Gump; a runner
stepped into some dog poop and Forrest says, “IT HAPPENS”.
A lot of what happens to us in life is “Choice Driven,” so we are urged to pray about our
actions.
Stuff does happen: It’s not Satan and it’s not God; things just happen. The law of gravity is in effect and when used
correctly it’s a good thing… used incorrectly, it will kill
you. Water sustains life, but it can kill you. Electricity is a modern blessing, but it can kill you.
It is God’s
will that we all live a long life
now,[8] and
even more in heaven; but that’s just not the case. God’s “will” is NOT happening on
earth.[9]
NOTE: God gives us (the believers), angles to
protect us[10]
and they will not let us die until what we were created for has been
accomplished.[11] The promises in
the Bible are for the Believer… Un-believers and Make-believers are used in God’s plan too, but they do not experience His promises.
Because of God’s sovereignty, He knows the life decision of a 10 day old
baby even before he was formed in the womb.[12] There are no accidents
or surprises with God… He knows.
Does
God kill us?
The reason that the child was killed and taken away
so early in life was because God just needed another flower for His garden in
Heaven, – WHAT BALONEY – Somebody just
said that to make the family feel better; it wasn’t God that took his life and
He didn’t need another flower in His Garden.
More Baloney – “The Lord
gives and the Lord takes away;” Job said it in the scriptures and that’s what
Job believed; but what he believed was not true.[13] The Bible is clear that God wants us to have
life; He sent Jesus so that we would have life and have more of it. God does not
take away life, but devises ways to bring the sinner back to
Him.[14] It’s in the Book
Satan’s WORK on
earth is to Kill, steal and destroy[15] and Christ came
to destroy the WORKS of Satan.[16] Death
is a result and
punishment
for the original sin in the Garden of Eden; [17]eating
from the
tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Christ came to give us THE WAY to the other
tree, “the Tree of Life”. So it is not God that takes away life; death
is the direct result of sin and disobedience.
Death, the cutting off of the length of days of man is un-natural; God’s
favor is for man to live a long life, however it is
inevitable that man will die in
his present sinful and fallen state.
A life of 100 years is short and cut off because of the “The Law”, the decree of God; “if you sin, you
will die”. God says His plan is for us to live an average of
about SEVENTY years of age and if we have taken
exceptional good care of our bodies, then we could live till we are about EIGHTY [18]
and even longer than that if we took good care of our parents.[19] That’s His will, but STUFF
HAPPENS.
Man does not simply die as the lower order of plants, animals and
creatures do; for them death means the end of life, they
do not have the promise.
Man is a physical and a spiritual being and will transition to another
dimension in which our conscious existence continues.
God is over the whole process of life and death and has decreed that the penalty of sin is death, but has also
determined to give life eternal to
sinful man if man CHOOSES to
receive. We will all die; in fact, it’s BIOLOGICALLY NECESSARY to get to the
other side; but the time is not fixed.
Does God know when we will die? YES, you bet He does; the Sovereignty of
God sees the end from the
beginning, but it’s not set,[20] Stuff just
Happens. (There is a maximum
of life for all creation; but we shorten it.)
The time of our death is unknown, individually it’s
not set.[21] We only know our days are fleeting away.[22] God has set a limit on Man’s life;[23] our
life decisions usually shortens it;
seek God and live long.
I am running out of time on
earth… and so is everyone else… and it’s necessary.[24]
There is an Invisible War Going On
What
happens on earth is the directly proportional to what’s happening in
the spiritual realm. Just as “Stuff Happens”
on earth to people, Spiritual wickedness is also warring in the heavens.[25] Our prayers are hindered in an effort by Satan[26] to stop God’s promises from reaching us,
discouraging us, hoping to get us to stop praying;[27] the Book says to pray without ceasing. [28]
LISTEN: God hears
our prayers before we begin to speak, and sends the answer before we can finish;
don’t stop praying until you receive your answer; Pray without ceasing.
Angels
– Protection - Guidance
Martin Luther said, “An angel is a
spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of
Christendom and the church”.[29]
Billy Graham said “Angels, who
think, will, and display emotions are ministering servants who can appear or remain invisible as they perform the
tasks that God assigns them.” Angels
maintain the believer’s life during the believer’s assignment and interacts
with them without their knowledge. [30]
The believer will finish his assignment before his death.[31] At death the angels will escort THE BELIEVER from this World
to Heaven for a royal welcome.
I know of twice in my life for sure that I should have died. Once when I was drowning and my sister caught
my arm and pulled me up out of the ocean. A second time when I fell out of a three story
window of a house under construction; I got up and walked home with only my
feelings hurt. I believe my work was not
finished and angels bore me up. At this
writing (2011) I am now 72; and firmly believe that
these FREE Word Studies
are the assignment I am supposed to complete and leave to my grandchildren.
The
Bible - The Book of Job
There are two realms
1) The Spiritual - With two
players; God and Satan… with all the other angels watching.
2) The Physical - With many
players; Job, his children, his servants, his live stock, and all his friends.
ü Satan was created in the Spiritual realm and was given “massive power and authority”, but is limited by
God; so in actuality, Satan is nothing but a dog on a leash.
ü Man was created in the physical realm and was given very “little power and authority” but could do whatever he wanted. Free as a bird; freedom
to choose and to love or hate
the consequences of his decisions.
The
Story of Job
Satan, the Top Dog,
comes up to God and with all the other angles listening,
tells God that the only reason Job loves Him is because of all the good
things He has done for him. Satan goes on
to tell God that if He took it all away, Job would curse Him; Satan was
released to do what he wanted to, but with limitations. DID YOU SEE IT? All the other angels heard what Satan said.
Ø THE LESSON BEGINS; but the lesson was not for Job; so who was it for
and what was the lesson?
You must get this picture; ALL of Job’s
children were killed[32]… but
Job still did not curse God. In the end,
God restored everything and more to Job, but the children that were killed were
not brought back to life. The children
did not die an unfinished life; the part they played completed God’s
plan in the spiritual realm. DID YOU SEE IT? In the spiritual
realm every Angel in heaven
saw Satan
get DEFEATED.
The fight was
over Job, not his children; Job could have cursed God and
was free to do so, but did not…Job praised God IN all things, not
FOR all things.
DID
YOU SEE IT? In the physical
realm; all of Job’s friends witnessed Job’s testimony.
This is just one in a series of lessons that the angles would receive
that would show God’s love and patience; wanting Satan to return and repent…
Ø THE LESSON was for the angels to
see Satan’s total defeat. At
the return of Christ in the end, the angels will
never be DECIEVED again.[33] The
story of Satan’s rebellion will be told over and over again and never again
will there be a rebellion in heaven.[34]
When we die we will have completed the
thing for which we were created.[35]
Satan’s
Foot Hold
It’s unfair here to lead the
reader to believe that God released Satan to play a game. Listen to this now…
Job himself states that “The thing I feared the most has come upon me.”[36] God says that Job was a good and upright man,
but he feared. FEAR IS A SIN; Job was operating in sin and didn’t even know
it. God did not give Job over into
Satan’s hands, he was already there because of sin; Satan just didn’t know it; [37] but
God in His sovereignty already knew it.
God
Removed His Hand
I am not the only one
that felt like God had taken His hand away.
Jesus felt it too when he was on the cross bearing all the sins of man
from the past, present and future, He felt the hand of His Father removed from
Him for the first time ever. My God, My God; why have you forsaken me? [38] Our
God saw His Only begotten Son dying on the cross so that His perfect plan could
be completed. It was the plan of redemption hidden in secret through the ages.
It was not a cruel game; it was the
greatness of His compassion and Love. Jesus
foreknew what would happen to His disciples and the horror of being out of the
Fathers hand and wanted it to pass from Him, but accepted His Father’s will to be done.[39] Jesus was only 33 when He died and from His
family’s point of view, Jesus had an unfinished life, but His Father
in Heaven said, the plan for which He was created was completed. “IT IS
FINISHED”.[40]
The
Bible - At death, it’s not the trip that
counts; it’s the destination.
There is NOT an “intermediate
place” for the unsaved when
they die. There is NO purgatory, or money that can be paid, or prayers
that can be offered for a deceased loved one to be saved. There’s NOT another chance
to embrace Christ, there is NO debate with God; it’s all over.[41]
In the true story of the Rich
man and Lazarus; when they both died; neither ceased to exist, they were both
still alive, but living in different
places,[42] one
place was called Torment and the other place called Paradise[43] and there
was a GREAT GULF fixed
between them[44] which could not
be crossed…
JUDGED.
Paradise – Abraham’s bosom
Before
the Crucifixion of Christ, Hell was divided into two compartments, Torment
and Paradise
with a great gulf fixed between them… Good guys on one side and bad guys on the
other… The good guys were held captive in a compartment of hell known as Paradise
or Abraham’s
bosom.[45]
After Jesus descended into Hell, He did a
little preaching then took the captives in Paradise to Heaven with Him and
that’s where the new Paradise is now. With
the removal of the Saints and Paradise from Hell, Torment was enlarged and is already
receiving the wicked multitudes as they die.
We
that love the Lord do not go to the lower parts of the earth when we die, but
go immediately to Heaven to be with Jesus.[46] What if Hell is a sphere in the
center of the earth, and that’s why it has no bottom?[47]
Hell Rabbit Trail
Hades (Greek), Sheol
(Hebrew for Hades), Hell (Hebrew), and Gehenna (Greek) all symbolize the same thing. Gehenna
was a valley outside Jerusalem where garbage and dead bodies were thrown with
gnawing worms eating the rotting putrid flesh. It burned and smoked day and
night. Its name is symbolic of Hades; in the OT, Hell was referred to as going down to “the pit” or “the grave”.
Hell;
the lower parts of the earth holding the wicked dead till the end of the
millennium when it and its contents will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and tormented forever. It is
an un-seen world of disembodied spirits that are full of remorse, fear, and
despair; with memories of what they should have done and didn’t; full of sorrow
for their bad examples, and with a hopelessness of escape and in a state of regret over doing evil deeds that
cannot be recalled. In despair that they
did not listen to God’s word, and are aware of their families on earth, and
have a hopeless desire to warn them somehow.
In Hell, you are in the gloom
of darkness, away from the face of God,[48]
with a bunch of demons, Satan and his fallen angels, and the entire unbelieving
bunch of wicked folks, [49]
plus you have the ordinary run of the mill burning fire and sulfur to walk
around in. There’s
not much love in Hell.
In Hell, you are NOT instantly
annihilated, but are tormented in the unquenchable fires that go on endlessly, and it gets worse. At the return of Christ, Hell is thrown into
the burning Lake
of Fire and Sulfur FOREVER. Hell was not originally prepared for man, but for Satan. [50]
Tartarus: Webster,
A
place where the fallen angels are bound in darkness away from the face of God.[51] Tartarus (in the Greek) an infernal abyss below Hades; a place for
punishment for the wicked after death. I’m not sure that my BS buys into this location as described
by Webster, but it’s certainly possible.
Muslims believe in error - Sura 32:13 – Allah sends to hell
whomever he wants. He created a multitude of spirits and men specifically for the
purpose of sending them to hell.
Muslims claim that they along with the Jew and the Christian worship the same God of Abraham,
but are just on different paths. NOT... Allah
is NOT the Jehovah God of
the Christian.
The Bible teaches that EVERYONE is on a path to
hell because of our sin nature, but we don’t have to stay on that path. IT’S A CHOICE... by believing,
repenting and confessing Jesus as your Messiah, you will become BORN AGAIN with an eternal
life in Christ.
Did you see it? No one is created just to go to hell; you choose it. You
cannot remain neutral;
BEING
NEUTRAL IS A CHOICE TO REJECT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
The Unsaved – The real sorrow
There is deep genuine sorrow for
the make-believer; the un-saved; there is absolutely no hope. ALL men are born
spiritually dead and unresponsive to God’s word and Laws; they must be born
again.
ü
The
Holy Spirit’s part is to plant the seeds and those that will believe are
drawn to God.[52]
ü
The
Followers of Christ part is to water the seed; the parent, the friend, the office
worker, the Sunday school teacher... All of us along the way water the seed... we
are all called to water.
ü
God’s
part is
to harvest the full grown seed, and sometimes we get to
witness the whole process.
We are NOT responsible for
planting the “Seed”, NOR the harvest which is God’s work.
But we are responsible to water; the VERY LEAST we can do in life
is to water our
own family.
It is
God’s will that all be saved from the
fate of Satan’s doom,[53]
but it’s up to each person to decide.[54]
Death is a “state” as well as an “event”... It
doesn’t have to be the end, it can be the beginning.
For the unbeliever, death is dread, but
for the believer its anticipation.[55] Everyone who HAS NOT been redeemed
by the blood of Jesus Christ is spiritually DEAD.[56] The mind controlled by the Spirit has LIFE.[57]
God says, you had better “put your
house in order; you will not recover”. [58]
Death & Burial Traditions
In the days of Jesus, bystanders at
funerals were obligated to honor the dead by following the funeral processions.
Paid
mourners were added to the
mourners who were close friends and relatives; the mourning continued for some 30
days.
The body was prepared to be buried the same
day or very soon after death. The family clipped the hair and nails. The body was washed, anointed with oil and
wrapped in strips of linen cloth with spices such as hyssop, rose oil and water
between the strips. The hands and feet
were wrapped in bandages and the face covered with a napkin. The linen would often be scented with natural
perfumes such as aloes and myrrh.
The body was placed on an open “bier” in a cave and sealed. The bier was the frame on which the bearers conveyed
the dead to the tomb. Only the wealthy
had their own rock
tomb; a courtyard could be found in front of some
tombs, just big enough to for the bier and its bearers. Underground Catacombs were developed for the poor that had large masses
of tombs. After some time on the bier, the flesh would
have decayed and then the bones would then be placed in a box called an “ossuary”
which was placed on a shelf in the tomb; that way all the family
could be buried in the same place.
Sidebar: Peter, as he prayed for Dorcas to be
resurrected; wanting only believers around, sent the paid
mourners out of the room. In my Belief System, I
see the message here, is during the laying on of hands and prayer, to surround
yourself only with believers.[59]
The Second
Death
God’s last judgment: The SECOND DEATH [60] is the state of final condemnation;[61] a
person without Christ; a un-believer or a make-believer, when he faces God’s judgment will be
condemned to ETERNAL punishment in hell.[62] The Second Death comes equipped with the Lake of Fire which
burns with sulfur and brimstone. IT IS THE SEPARATION FROM GOD FOR ALL
ETERNALITY.
Did you see
it? Avoiding the burning
sulfur and brimstone is certainly a plus,
BUT it grieves me more to think of someone being
SEPARATED from God the Father
for all ETERNITY; like forever.[63]
Death is the last enemy to be
destroyed and Christ has done that for the Believer.[64]
The unbeliever DIES twice; the believer LIVES twice.
Victory
over Death
Christ took upon Himself our
nature, that through death, He might destroy Satan who had the power of
death.[65]
ü
For those that are “in Christ”, death has been
transformed to only “sleep.” [66]
ü
The believer has already crossed over from death
unto life[67]
and cannot be separated from the love of God.[68] Death no longer has a sting.[69]
Life on earth is certainly a
gift from God, but life in heaven with God is even better.[70]
New Earth – No death
The Book of Revelation
says that at the end of Armageddon, we get a new heaven and a new
earth.
God assigned the earth to the “immortal”
angel Satan to oversee and protect it; probably forever. Satan with his “free will” desired to be like God
and enjoy all the earth worshiping him.
Satan certainly wasn’t going to report to Adam, a man made lower than
the angels and made out of dirt at that.
In the end, God will give the whole earth
to Satan and his friends; the Antichrist, the false prophet, the demons and fallen
angels and the unsaved... THEN He bowls this burning bowling ball of hell fire into eternity somewhere; and although a little
toasty, Satan
gets exactly what he has always wanted.
The earth is now his, lit up like a Christmas tree for a solar system
somewhere. Just saying, but
that’s my Belief System.
NOTE: I must also point out that many students
of the Word believe the earth will only undergo Urban
Renewal and be purified by fire making
it a new heaven and a new earth... I like my BS better.
v Death has been defeated and the
believers get a new heaven and a new earth.[71]
v Paradise with the TREE OF LIFE will be restored
as the creator intended; death will be no more.
Revelation 21:1 – The first earth is somewhere
else
1 THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH,
FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND
THE FIRST EARTH HAD
PASSED AWAY
NIV
Heaven
For the Believer, because
you belong to the Lord, it doesn’t matter if you live or die,[72] whether
you are rich or poor; a King or a slave, whether you are 9 or 90, you “get in” on the SAME PROMISES of heaven with
eternal life with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Regardless of our age, we will be like Jesus
with a new glorified 32 year old body that never gets old because there
is no “time”;
just eternity.
In Heaven, our memories are
veiled to those left behind; we will have no sorrow or tears.[73]
The Loss
There are no accidents
or surprises with God. Few things sap
the human spirit like lack of hope. Our
suffering produces perseverance and that builds character and that gives us
hope.[74]
Let people help you; it’s the only gift
that they have to offer you. Don’t cheat
them out of an opportunity to express their love to you; this is their ministry... Let them help you cry.
At some point we have to stop mourning and pining about how things were
and who we don’t have any more and discover who we have now and how we can
celebrate life.
YOU CAN’T LOSE SOMEONE IF YOU KNOW
WHERE THEY ARE.
In the spiritual realm, the angels in
heaven saw Satan defeated and
in the physical realm my son was a
testimony of the love of Jesus Christ to hundreds that he might never see
again.
Life is Choice Driven
Be
still, and know that I am God
Psalm 46:10 NIV
[1] Deuteronomy 31:16 –
Called sleep
[2] Genesis 25:8 – Giving up
the Ghost
[3] Genesis 15:15 – Going to
the fathers
[4] 2 Peter 1:14 – Putting
off this tabernacle
[5] Luke 20:20 – Requiring
the Soul
[6] Job 14:2 - Being cut
down.
[7] 1 Corenthians 13:12 – We
see dimly now but soon we will see Him face to face
[8] John 10:10 – God’s will
is for us to have life and have it more abundantly
[9] Matthew 6:9-10 – God’s WILL on earth is NOT BEING DONE
[10] Luke 4:10 - His angels
have charge over us to keep us.
[11] Isaiah 55:11 – Your assignment will be completed before you die; my
word that goes forth out of my mouth shall not return unto me void, but will
accomplish that whereto I sent it.
[12] Jeremiah 1:4-5 – Before you were born; He knew you
[13] Job 1:21 - The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed
be the name of the LORD
[14] 2 Samuel 14:14 – God does NOT take away life; instead, he devises
ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him
[15] John 10:10 – Satan comes to Kill, Steal and Destroy; Christ to give life and more of it
[16] 1 John 3:8 – Christ came to destroy the WORKS of Satan.
[17] Genesis 2:17 – Death is a result of sin -- Romans 5:12 – Death
entered into the world by one man; Adam -- Romans 6:23 – The payment for sin is Death; it is Sin that kills you.
[18] Psalm 90:10 – We can
average 70 to 80 years; It’s not fixed
[19] Deuteronomy 5:16 – Treat
your mama good and add even more days to your life
[20] Isaiah 46:10 – God sees
the end from the beginning; His purpose will stand
[21] Hebrews 9:27 – We will
all die; it is appointed unto men once to die, after this the judgment
[22] Psalm 39:4 – Life’s end
and the number of my days are Fleeting -- Psalm 144:4 – Man is like a breath;
his days are like a fleeting shadow
[23] Job 14:5 – Live a good
life till the end. Man's maximum days are determined;
you have decreed the number of his months and have SET LIMITS HE
CANNOT EXCEED.
[24] Ecclelasties 3:2 – There
will come a time to die -- Genesis 27:2 – I am now an old man and don't know
the day of my death
[25] Ephesians 6:12 – There is
a spiritual war taking place in another dimension.
[26] Hebrews 2:14 – Satan has the power of death through sin
[27] Daniel 10:12-13 – God hears immediately and dispatches the answer and spiritual warfare breaks out in the heavens.
[28] 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 - Never stop
praying. Be thankful in all circumstances
[29] Hebrews 1:14 – MINISTERING Angels are
sent to the believer
[30] Hebrews 13:2 – Angels INTERACT with us unknowingly -- Psalm 91:11-12 – Angels GUARD you during your assignment, -- Luke 16:22 – Angels will ESCORT the Believer to heaven
[31] Isaiah 55:11 – Our earthly assignment will be completed before we die;
His word will accomplish that which pleases Him and shall not return to Him
void, but will prosper.
[32] Psalm 116:15 – The death
of a believer is precious to God
[33] Jude 6 – Some of the angels were deceived by Satan and left
their assignment to follow him and will be separated
from God for eternity -- Revelation 12:4 - One
third of the angels rebelled with Satan
[34] 2 Peter 2:4 – None of the rebelling Angels will be spared, they are reserved unto judgment; chains of darkness
[35] Isaiah 55:11 – Our earthly assignment will be completed before we die;
His word will accomplish that which pleases Him and shall not return to Him
void, but will prosper
[36] Job 3:25 – Job confesses
he is operating in FEAR.
[37] Job 1:12 – Job was
already in Satan’s hand; behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon
himself put not forth your hand
[38] Matthew 27:46 – God
removes His hand; My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me?
[39] Matthew 26:39 – Your will
be done, not mine
[40] John 19:30 – The plan of redemption of mankind is finished
[41] Hebrews 9:27 – Man is appointed to die once, then the judgment
[42] Luke 16:22-24 – Death;
two different places… Torment and Paradise
[43] Luke 16:22 – The beggar
died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom
[44] Luke 16:26 – There is a GREAT GULF fixed between Torment and Paradise
[45] John 11:26 – The Believer
will never die; whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?
[46] 2 Corenthians 5:8 – When
we are absent from the body, we are Present with God
[47] Revelation 20:3 - The angel threw Satan into the bottomless pit
[48] 2 Thessalonians 1:9 – The Un-believer and Make-believer will be removed from the
presence of God forever.
[49] Revelation 20:10 – Satan
and his followers will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
[50] Matthew 25:41 – Hell was
not created for man, but for Satan
[51] 2 Peter 2:4 - God did not
spare the angels but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of
darkness -- Jude 6 – Fallen Angels are in everlasting darkness, shut out of the
presence of God’s light
[52] John 6:44 – The Holy Spirit plants the seed; we water
[53] Luke 11:2 – Its God’s
will that ALL
would be saved, but it’s up to us to decide
[54] John 3:16 – God wants all the world to be drawn to Him, but most are not.
[55] 1 John 3:14 – We as
Believers will pass from death to life
[56] Ephesians 2:1 - You are DEAD in your sin -- Romans
3:23 – ALL men SIN
and fall short of the glory of God
[57] Romans 8:6 – The mind
that is controlled by the Spirit has life
and peace
[58] 2 Kings 20:1 – PUT YOUR HOUSE
IN ORDER; YOU WILL NOT RECOVER, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
[59] Acts 9:39-40 – Allow only
believers to lay hands on you for praying.
[60] Revelation 2:11 – The
Believer will not be hurt by the second death
[61] Revelation 21:8 – The second death, the unbeliever dies twice; he inherits
the burning lake of fire
[62] Daniel 12:2 – The unbeliever awakens to everlasting contempt, the believer awakens to everlasting life.
[63] Proverbs 21:16 – Don’t
stray from the Word of God
[64] 2 Timothy 1:11 – Death has been DESTROYED for the
believer -- Colossians
2:13 – When you die to your sin, you come alive in Christ
[65] Romans 8:2 – Jesus Christ
has set us free from the from law of sin and death -- Luke 15:32 – We were dead
and are now made alive
[66] 1 Thessalonians 4:14 – The believer is only asleep.
[67] John 5:24 – The believer
has already crossed over from death to life -- 1 John 3:14 – We have passed
from death into life
[68] Romans 8:38-39 – Nothing
can separate us from life in Christ
[69] 1 Corenthians 15:55 – Death no longer has a sting to the believer.
[70] Philippians 1:21 - Life
is a gift from God; to live with God is even better.
[71] 2 Peter 3:13 – WE GET A NEW
HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH --
Luke 20:36- We will not die again; we can no longer die since we are children
of the resurrection; God’s children.
[72] Romans 14:7-8 – Whether
we live or die, we are the Lords.
[73] Revelation 21:4 – No
crying or sighing or pain for the old order of things has passed away
[74] Romans 5:3-5 – Our
suffering results in HOPE
and hope does not disappoint -- John 5:25 – We will hear the voice of the Son
of God and will live again -- Corenthians 5:8 – The believer will be in the
presence of Jesus Christ forever.