The purpose of this article is to once and for all clarify questions about death. For example, what will happen to our body, soul and spirit after death?
My father died at the age of 63 and my mother died at the age of 80. My sister also died last year caused by a dreaded disease, "cancer of the bone".
Different speculations surfaced starting from the death of my father.
Some said my father and mother together with my sister are now together living in heaven with the Lord. Some said, they are now one of the Angels of the Lord.
Some said my father and mother together with my sister are now together living in heaven with the Lord. Some said, they are now one of the Angels of the Lord.
What was written in the scripture is that, only the spirits of the just men made perfect are in heaven.
Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
1 Pet 3:19-20 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Dan 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.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Ezek 37:5-6 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.For what is a man, what has he got? For after your way, the way of the Lord will prevail.
♫♪♫ And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and ev'ry highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way ♫♪♫
And what is that Body of Christ you are talking about? How can you become part of the body of Christ when you don't join that body where Christ is the head?
ReplyDeleteRom 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
And what is that good that you should cleave?
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
And how can we feed the Church of God, when you are not a member?
1John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
How will you know that it is the Church of God?
John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.