Precious friend, my
own Scriptural study of:
‘Confusion’ of What Death Is…
...solved for Comfort (and,
hopefully eliminating 'mistaken impressions')
by "What Saith ALL The Scriptures?" on This Important Doctrine:
man/woman/child = a tripartite/trichotomous being?:
"And the very God of Peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray
God your Whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
(1 Thessalonians 5:23; Comfort 2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
A Divider/Discerner of the [
internal] TWO
:
"For The Word of God Is Quick, and Powerful, and Sharper
Than any twoedged sword, Piercing Even To The Dividing
Asunder Of soul AND spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
And Is A Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
(Hebrews 4:12)
Death?:
"...the body without the spirit is dead..." (Jam 2:26)
1) When the body is dead, it becomes
ignorant and hence
"knows not anything" (Ecc 9:5), "returning to dust" (Ecc 12:7):
2) "the spirit returns (from the body) back to God Who Gave it" (Ecc 12:7)
What about "the soul"? Some
think it
disappears into nothingness/annihilation - huh?
But:
What Saith The Scriptures?:
3) "the soul
departs" (Gen 35:16-19):
a) Jesus Clearly Taught UNbelievers' souls go to the "place of
torment, having vision, speech, feeling, and remembering everything"
(Luk 16:19-31) "across the great fixed gulf":
b) Believers (previously) went to "paradise (in the earth) = Abraham's bosom" - Confirmed:
b1) Jesus, Just Before HIS Death, Clearly Said [to the repentant thief]
"Today thou Shalt BE WITH ME In Paradise!" (Luke 23:43) - Confirmed by:
b2) "I AM The God of Abraham, and The God of Isaac, and The God of Jacob?
God Is not The God of the dead, but of the living." (Matthew 22:32) Amen:
OT
living souls departed and "gathered Unto their own people!":
"And thou shalt go [living soul that departs] to thy fathers in peace;
thou shalt be buried [dead body] in a good old age." (Genesis 15:15)
"Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. And his sons
Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field
of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;"
(Genesis 25:8-9)
"And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his
people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob
buried him." (Genesis 35:29)
Jacob (v 1):
"And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered Unto
my people [living soul]: bury me with my fathers [dead body] in the
cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite," (Genesis 49:29)
So, the
critics will argue that the 'dead body' "buried with fathers"
=
"gathered with their people" (
changing The 'order of God's above Scriptural
Passages'),
and thus, 'making
the soul NON-existant,'
Correct?:
What Saith The Scriptures?:
"And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and
yielded up the ghost, and
was gathered unto his people." (Genesis 49:33)
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IMMEDIATELY his "
living soul departed to paradise in Abraham's bosom!
"
Correct?
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Further Confirmed BY:
b3) The prophet
Samuel's [
dead body] was buried Nowhere
Near his father
Abraham's in "the cave of Machpelah," Correct? So that
Cannot be the
critic's theory "gathered to his fathers/people," right?
"And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and
lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah." (1 Samuel 25:1)
Further
Confirmed by King Saul "
disturbing 'Samuel's
rest,' asking the
witch at Endor to "
call up Samuel from the dead" (1 Samuel 28:7-20)
Again,
critics complain that this is a "demon (one of the gods 'ascending out
of the earth'" [
theory ] that "appeared to the witch and Saul." huh? The witch
"
identified him as
Samuel." Did she lie?
Now, it is possible demons might
know this, from
the past?:
"Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst
his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this
thing unto thee this day." (1 Samuel 28:18)
But, how in heaven’s name, did God Give demons the "gift of prophecy," to
predict the future?:
"Moreover The LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand
of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me:
The LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the
Philistines." (1 Samuel 28:19)
Uh, sorry, NO
theoretical '
future-predicting demons' were
in Paradise, So
"after Samuel went back to resting In Paradise," the
next day, Saul and
Jonathon were killed in battle, AND
"gathered Unto their people," WITH
Samuel,
"As Prophesied," Correct?
b4) In the
future, John saw:
"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
[living] souls of them that were slain [dead bodies] for The Word
of God, and for the testimony which they held" (Revelation 6:9)
"...cried out with loud voice...Given white robes..." (vs 10-11)
How,
Exactly, is that 'nothingness/annihilation [no
comfort],' when these
are "
living and conscious," Correct?
Scriptures Get Even Better! = Very Comforting!!:
c) ...(
But now), for believers, Under God's Grace!:
In Christ's
Revelation Of The Mystery To Paul,
He Teaches:
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"For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to DEPART {soul},
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"Now He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, Who
also hath given unto us The Earnest of The Spirit. Therefore we are
always Confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body,
we are absent from The LORD: ( For we walk by faith, not by sight: )
We are Confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body,
"...
Paradise in The Third Heaven!..." (2Co 12:1-4) =
VERY Comforting, Correct?:
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Bears
repeating! Correct?:
"
I AM The God of Abraham, and
The God of Isaac, and
The God of Jacob?
God Is not
The God of the dead, but
of the living.
" (Matthew 22:32) Amen.
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LORD Jesus, thanks So Much for
ALL Your Comforting Words. Amen.
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Grace, Peace, And JOY In Christ,
And In His Word Of Truth,
Rightly
Divided (+
I and
II)!
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