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What is the State of dead in the Bible?
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So Lisa is asking, you stated the soul ceases to exist after death. I have to disagree with, for the soul is our mind will emotions. Will emotions. Mind, will emotions. So if the body goes to the dust and the spirit goes back to.
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God, what is judged?
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Hebrews 927 states, once a man is appointed to die, then there is judgment. So the soul does not cease to exist. It is our mind will emotions, which.
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Is judged by God when people die. All right, Lisa, thank you for that question.
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Definitely this is something that a lot of people grapple with, right?
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What is the soul?
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What’s the spirit?
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What’s the judgment?
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I agree with the general premise that.
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The soul is our mind.
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I think a lot of people.
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Have.
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A different idea of what it is. But I think our soul, spirit, a lot of that is talking about our mind, our will, our emotions.
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That’s a good way of putting it.
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But does that mean that our consciousness.
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Goes to God when we die?
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And that’s how then we have to be judged.
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If our consciousness isn’t there, God can’t judge us.
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And I think applied what you’re saying.
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Too, is that God will immediately judge after we die. But is that what the Bible says, or is that what is being read into it? So what is judged?
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When is the judgment?
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These are important questions to ask. So let’s look at first.
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Ecclesiastes Twelve seven, I think is a.
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Verse fitting in with what you’re talking.
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About, and you’re suggesting about the spirit.
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Going up to God.
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It says Ecclesiastes twelve seven. Then the dust will return to the.
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Earth as it was, the dust the body was made of, and then the spirit will return to God who gave it. So what is the spirit that returns to God?
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If you look up that word spirit.
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In Hebrew, it is rua, and it means wind, breath, mind. And then we use it for spirit.
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But really, I think wind, breath, mind, like all these are sort of encompassing.
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The concept here that we’re talking about.
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And then modernly, we like to read spirit into a lot of it.
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But really, when God made Adam, what did he do? He made took clay and then he.
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Breathed in the breath of life.
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And it says, then Adam became a living soul.
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Now, if we look at Genesis 715.
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It talks about, and they went into the ark to Noah, two by two of all flesh, in which is the breath of life. That same word, rua, breath of life.
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It didn’t say the spirit of life.
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The breath of life is what it says.
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Psalm one of 429.
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It says, you hide your face, they.
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Are troubled, you take away their breath.
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Their Ruak, they die and return to their dust.
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So again, this concept is our breath.
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Ceases and then our body decomposes.
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This is repeated again and again.
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Ezekiel 37 five, sort of the opposite. God says, Thus says the Lord to.
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These bones, surely I will cause breath.
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To enter into you and you shall live.
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Psalm 146 four.
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Psalm 146 four his Spirit departs, he returns to the earth. In that day, his plans perish. The translators decided to use the Spirit there. It could just as well be his breath departs and then it says, his plans perish. So it’s saying when the Spirit departs and we decompose and all that, we’re not conscious anymore, that’s why our plans perish.
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So let’s go back to now, Hebrews.
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927 that Lisa was talking about.
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And as it is appointed for men.
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To die once, but after this, the judgment. Now are we told here what the judgment is or sorry, where the judgment happens? Is this happening in heaven?
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Is it happening in hell? Is it happening in limbo?
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Paul isn’t trying to answer that judgment. Okay, so next, when does this judgment take place? We’re told after death. But is Paul saying immediately after death? Or is it some point after someone dies? So it could be a day after.
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They die, maybe it could be a.
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Millennium after they die, or maybe it’s.
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Going to be a certain time that.
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God has picked that they will be judged. But let’s look at one, Peter four seven.
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It says, for time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God.
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And if it begins with us, what.
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Will be the end of those who.
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Do not obey the gospel of God? So actually judgment starts with God’s people.
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And it’s a long Bible study, but basically, and we’ll touch on it, god’s keeping books. He has the book of life. He knows at any one time who are saved. If he were to come today, he.
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Would know who it is, because they’re written in the book of life, and the righteous are there. God has read judge who’s righteous first. Peter 417. Sorry, we just read that first.
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Thessalonians 416 to 17 says, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with.
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A shout and with the voice of.
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An archangel, with the trumpet of the Lord, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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And we were just talking about this, right, the resurrections. So the dead will in Christ, the saved will rise first.
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Then we who are alive and remain.
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Shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. So is it saying we’ll be with the Lord when we die and that.
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We have a spirit that then will.
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Be with the Lord?
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Or is it that we will be with the Lord when we are resurrected.
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And then we are with the Lord? We will always be with Him.
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And again, notice that first it starts.
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With the saved God’s people.
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When we come to Revelation 20, verses four to six, it’s talking about these thrones that are put in place and they that sat in them and the judgment was committed to them.
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And I saw the souls of those who have been beheaded for their witness to the Lord. And again, that word souls can be the living beings.
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That’s the same word that NIV uses.
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When Adam was created and became a living being. So he’s seen bodies of people, we.
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Don’T have to read in their spirits.
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That’s just a modern viewpoint.
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So he sees the bodies of people.
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Who have been beheaded. They’re there, they’re in heaven, they’re going through the books. And it’s not just them really.
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I mean, that’s what he sees.
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But it could be others there. And it says these people, they lived.
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In fact, he said that the people.
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Who had not received the mark of.
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The beast and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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So during the millennium we’ve talked about.
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In depth before, the wicked are dead, satan and his angels are locked on.
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Earth, the righteous are with Christ in.
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Heaven, they’re going through the books. So this judgment process is continuing. The righteous, we know who are righteous.
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And now we’re in heaven. We’re looking at why aren’t those in heaven there?
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And so this all is the first.
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Resurrection, according to Revelation 20, verse five. And blessed and holy is he who is part of the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power. Then let’s jump to John five, starting at verse 28. Jesus says, do not marvel at this.
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For the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will.
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Hear his voice and come forth those.
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Who have done good to the resurrection of life.
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So Jesus saying, there’s one resurrection, resurrection of life. And those who have done evil, they will come to the resurrection of condemnation.
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And notice here says those who come forth those who have done good, and those who get the resurrection of condemnation.
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They’Re those who have done evil. So how is God judging people? It’s based on what they have done, their deeds.
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So God doesn’t need our consciousness before Him to really judge.
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God has the books before Him.
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So revelation 2021.
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Sorry. Revelation 20, verse eleven says, then I saw a great white throne and him who set on it from those whose the faith of face, the earth and heaven fled away and there was found.
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No place for them.
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And I saw the dead, small and.
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Great, standing before God.
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And books were open.
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And notice this is Revelation 2011. This comes after the first resurrection we’re talking about. Now, let’s talk about the second resurrection.
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The resurrection of damnation.
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And I saw the dead, small and.
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Great standing before God. Standing, would we say, like a spirit is standing?
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I mean, if anything it will be floating or something, but they’re standing, bodies.
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Are there because they’ve been resurrected and.
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The books are open and another book was open, which is a book of life.
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And the dead were judged according to their works. So the works were recorded in these books and by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it.
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The death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in it. This is not exactly in order.
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It’s a chiasm.
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So these people have been resurrected and.
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They were judged according to his works. That was verse 13. Verse 14.
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Then death and Hades were cast in the lake of fire. This is the second death and anyone not found written in the book of.
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Life was cast into lake of fire. So you’re not in book of life, you’re going to go into the lake of fire. The judgment isn’t this mysterious thing, but God has records, so it’s clear.
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Why is your name not in the book of life?
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Let me show you. That’ll be done in the body after the resurrection. So check out Daniel seven, verses nine to eleven.
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They talk about there more about the books. Exodus 32 32. Moses talks about blot me out of your book. This is a concept that we see throughout the Bible.
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Psalms repeatedly talking about the book.
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Psalm 69, verse 28, let them be blotted out of the book of the.
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Living and not be ridden with the righteous. So it’s really interesting how God does this. It doesn’t have to be so mysterious.
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But yet a lot of us who.
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Don’T study the Bible, a lot of.
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Denominations struggle with this concept, I think.
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Because I don’t know if it’s fear or confusion, but it’s there in the Bible and we don’t have to be confused. And I hope this is helpful to you, Lisa. Thank you for asking. Tina, any thoughts?
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Amen. That’s exactly what I said.
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