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NASB | 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the [blast of the] trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. |
Subject: Do we sleep or do we immediately go to h |
Bible Note: This is what I am getting from what Ive read and studied...when we die, the body is buried, the spirit, wether in christ or not, returns from which it came..(back to God)...and I (think--not to sure on this part..the soul sleeps/like in a state of rest--guess this is where they get the term "soul sleeping")I think its the soul that makes up our character (who we are)..and when chrit returns, there has to be some kind of reuniting (body/soul/spirit)..(bury a natural body--rise a spiritutal body) so that we can be judged..so no one goes directly to heaven or hell when they die..but the spirit of course returns to God...as for Lazrus--obviously at one time it was not like this..maybe because this was before Jesus died on the cross for our sins.. |