What Happens When We Die

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What Happens When We Die?

• "Time to be born, time to die" - Eccl 32
• Death - "separation"
• "Image of God" - spirit, soul, eternal
• Spiritual person - longs for separation from
  this body and to "be at home with the Lord" (2
  Cor 56-10)

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What Happens When We Die?

• Misconceptions about death
• Re-incarnation - Eccl 96 Heb 927
• Spiritualism (psychics) - Luke 1619-31
• Praying to the dead - 1 Tim 25
• Purgatory - Luke 1619ff Heb 927

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What Happens When We Die?

• Christian View
• Death to the body does not mean death to the
  soul - Matt 1028 1 Kgs 1717(NKJ) Rev
  1411, 2010 Heb 1028ff
• The soul goes to Hades when it leaves the body -
  Luke 1622ff Eccl 127

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What Happens When We Die?

• Hades - Luke 1622-31
• Spiritual state - souls only
• Righteous and wicked are there
• There is memory/consciousness - Rev 69f
• Life continues on earth
• Great chasm separates the souls
• No communication with living on earth

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What Happens When We Die?

• Hades - Luke 1622-31
• Jesus has the keys to Hades - Rev 118
• Jesus went to Hades after His death on the cross
  - Acts 231 Lk 2343
• Hades "home of the souls" awaiting judgment - 2
  Pet 24 Rev 2011-15
• (Research - "Examining Popular Doctrines" Part
  4 - B. Harkrider)