Bible Question:
This may sound dumb but... When you die does your soul go to heaven and wait for your body to be brought up as in revelations ? |
Bible Answer: Greetings Jaded13! I always tell my Bible Study group that "there is no dumb question, except the question we don't ask!" Your question basically contains two parts. What happens to the soul of a believer at death? What happens to the body of a believer after death? Two passages in particular, make it very clear that as soon as a believer dies, their soul is present with Christ: 2 Cor. 5:8 says, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." Phil. 2:21-23 says, "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far;" There are others, but these should suffice to demonstrate that a believer's (soul or spirit) is immediately present with Christ after death. The second part of your question is answered by 1 Thess. 4:16-17, which says, "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." Here it is clear that a believers body and (soul or spirit) will be reunited at the rapture. Those who die after the rapture, will be reunited at a different time. Revelation 20:4-6 says of them: "I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years." I hope this answers your question! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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