Where are the Dead

1
Where are the Dead?
2
Current Theories

• Purgatory
• Wheres the Scripture?
• No scripture, then NOT revealed by God!
• Reincarnation
• it is appointed unto men ONCE to die, but after
  this the judgment (Heb 927)
• Humans become angels
• Wheres the Scripture?

3
Only can answer this question by what is Revealed!

• Cant know by human reasoning
• Beyond physical and natural realm
• Cant know by human experience
• Weve never been there
• Must use the word of God to find the Truth!

Not Yet, Anyways!
4
What is Man?
What is man, that thou are mindful of him? Or
the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Heb 26)
Man is a composite Being
Body
Spirit
Eccl 127
God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
and man became a living soul (Gen 27)
God formeth the spirit of man within him.
(Zechariah 121) I, Daniel, was grieved in my
spirit in the midst of my body.
(Daniel 715)
5
Best definition of Life and Death

• Then shall the dust return to the earth as it
  was and the spirit shall return unto God who
  gave it. (Eccl 127)
• Death Separation of Body and Spirit
• Life the union of the Body and Spirit
• the body without the spirit is dead. (James
  226)

6
Destination of the Body

• Back to dust Ground (Eccl 127)
• The body perishes
• For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
  return. (Gen 319)

7
Destination of the Body

• We know that if our earthly house of this
  tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of
  God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the
  heavens. (2 Cor 51)
• Paul compares the fleshly body with a tabernacle
  or tent.
• Temporary Dwelling place

8
Destination of the Body

• This body is only temporary
• It will perish
• It will decay
• It will grow old
• Its corruptible!
• In asking Where is the Dead, we must ask Where
  does our spirit go?

9
Destination of the Spirit

• Where it does NOT go
• Grave
• Hence the separation of Body and Spirit
• Purgatory
• No Biblical proof
• Directly to Heaven or Hell
• Against Biblical teaching

10
Destination of the Spirit

• Where Does it Go?
• (Luke 23-39-43) Verily I say unto thee, to day
  shalt thou be with me in paradise.
• Christ promised the penitent thief that they
  would go to PARADISE.
• Christ said TODAY.
• (John 2017) Touch me not. I am NOT yet
  ascended to my Father.

11
Destination of the Spirit

• Christ said he was going to paradise.
• Christ did NOT go to his Father.
• The Father is in Heaven
• (Matt 69)
• Therefore Paradise and Heaven could NOT be one
  and the same place.
• Christ did not go to Heaven when he died.

12
Where Did Our Lord Go?

• (Acts 229-31)
• Two things we need to notice
• Lords body wouldnt see corruption
• Soul would not be left in Hell (Hades)
• Hades Greek word meaning Unseen
• When used in reference to death it means the
  realm of departed souls.

13
Where Did Our Lord Go?

• Jesus Soul went to Paradise at death
• Jesus Soul went to Hades at death
• Therefore Paradise IS Hades!
• Christ went to the realm where disembodied souls
  await Resurrection.
• Christs Soul was not left in Hades he was
  Resurrected.

14
Destination of the Spirit

• Jesus Body Grave
• Jesus Spirit Hades
• Our Body Grave
• Our Spirit Hades

15
Characteristics of the Hadean World

• Rich man and Lazarus
• (Luke 1619-31)

16
Consciousness of the Dead

• Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
  receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus
  evil things but now he is comforted, and thou
  art tormented. (Luke 1625)

17
What will You Remember?