Bible Question: Do we die or do we sleep |
Bible Answer: Job asked these questions "man dieth and wasteth away; Yea man giveth up the ghost and Where is he?" Job 14:10 In V 14 he asks "If a man die shall he live (again)? In 2 Corinthians 5:8 that at (physical) death we are "absent from the body and present with the Lord" The scriptures usually refer to the physical death of a Christian as being asleep. In 1 Thess. 4: 14-18 we are assured of their resurrection. To be present with the Lord has the sense of a conscious knowledge of him. The souls of the martyred in Rev. 6:10 are crying for justice. In other words they are aware of what is going. Stephen at his martyrdom was given a view of an open heaven with "Jesus standing on the right hand of God" Acts 7:56. It would appear that he saw his heavenly welcome as he fell asleep in Christ. In addition, when we read of accounts of other more recent martyrs, that as they approached their death they seemed to be given strength by the Holy Spirit and appeared to transcend the horrible pain as they went to meet their saviour. The Lord Jesus in Luke 16: 19-30 speaks of two men in life and two men in death. One is comforted and the other is tormented. There is no sense in this account that they are unconscious. Just a few thoughts Robert Nicholson |
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