It would be a reference to Lazarus. The spiritual dead are dead asleep it used when helping the disciples in their confusion when Christ first said; "he is dead". It did not mean he would not rise again on the last day.
The dead that do not know Christ will never rise to new life and receive the promise our new body. Their corrupted dying flesh and blood will return to the dust from where it was formed from and the their temporal corrupted spirit returns to the father of all spirit life.
The dead, dead know nothing even their memory of things unseen under the sun will disappear. Just as ours. never brought to mind forever more. You could say universal Alzheimer's a dying disease.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.[/QUOTE}
But that spirit is not without the "spiritual" body.
This is not addressing the state of the "soul", but the body. Nowhere is mentioned "only believers".
1 Corinthians 15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
1 Corinthians 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die
1 Corinthians 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain
1 Corinthians 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds."
1 Corinthians 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory.
1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption
1 Corinthians 15:43 It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power:
1 Corinthians 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
(No mention of mortality or immortality)
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal) (from mortal to immortal)
1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption (the dead) and this mortal must put on immortality.(the overcomers)
1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit
(quicken, made alive)
1 Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison
(prison was in paradise) (richman could see Abraham) Would it be fair for God to judge Noah, different than us? You can't be dead and be preached to. You have either a flesh body or a spiritual body.
1 Peter 3:20 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.
(Christ went back to all who ever died)
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
1 Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
1 Peter 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you
1 Peter 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
1 Peter 4:6
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Philipians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philipians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Philipians 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Philipians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Philipians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name
Philipians 2:10
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth
Philipians 2:11
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Matthew 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Matthew 10:27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul
but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
John 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
John 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Pentecost
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God shall bring
every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men but we are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul
but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
