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| Are the Dead Really Dead? ~ Part 3 |
Revelation 20:6:
“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”After the Christian church is gathered together with Jesus Christ in the air the there will be a resurrection of the just, [the better resurrection] then there will be a resurrection of the unjust. [this is where everyone else gets up from the dead] Revelation 20:12: “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.” Revelation 20:14: “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” Revelation 20:15: “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:5: “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” Revelation 21:8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Basically the second death is eternal death; there is no consciousness, no hope, no nothing, just death. The ideas of people being painfully and miserably tortured for eternity in hell by vicious and sadistic devils with red horns and pitchforks is a mythological religious fabrication, and an outright lie. The fire symbolizes cleansing and destruction. The things of God will not be consumed with fire, but the things of the adversary will be burned and destroyed. For centuries religion has used fear of this mythological hell where poor souls are tormented as a way to fear motivate and extort their followers. The Christian doctrines of life after death and hell as a place of torture are imported from Greek philosophy and pagan religion. What Happens When We Die? ~ 1986 Anthony Buzzard “The evangelical scholar G. E. Ladd refers to the commonly held tenet that ‘when we die we go to heaven.’ ‘Such thinking,’ he states. ‘popular as it is, is more an expression of Greek thought than of Biblical theology’” “Yet traditional theology has so often been hampered by the all-pervasive influence of Augustinian Platonism.” The Bible never mentions a soul living without a body, but again this is a Greek philosophical concept. ~ Catholic Encyclopedia 1991 “Plato established the basic Western tradition on this topic by defining the soul as the spiritual part of the human person which survived death. . . . He claimed that the separated soul possessed the characteristics previously possessed in its preexistence.” Are The Dead Alive Now? ~ 1971 Victor Paul Wierwille “If a person, immediately after expiring, is taken to eternal bliss, why is the return of Christ and/or the resurrection necessary? If after death the Christian is already alive and with Him, why should Christ return to gather His Church?” If you believe what the Bible says then you don’t have to come up with Platonic philosophical explanations to these questions. Galations 1:8; “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. Anyone who teaches that the dead are alive are teaching another gospel that is different than the gospel that the Jesus Christ and the apostles taught. God’s word says “let him be accursed.” Deuteronomy 18:10; “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [walk on hot coals] or that useth divination, [fortune teller] or an observer of times, [astrologer] or an enchanter, [magician] or a witch, [sorceress] 11 Or a charmer, [hypnotist] or a consulter with familiar spirits, [psychic or medium with a spirit guide] or a wizard, [clairvoyant] or a necromancer. [medium who consults the dead] 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee."Here God says that these things are an abomination and the people who do them are an abomination unto the Lord. All of these practices are based on the lie that the dead are alive. The devil and his evil spirit realm are familiar with peoples past and when a psychic with a familiar spirit tells someone this information it appears that they are getting it from dead people. God wants his people to know that the dead are dead so they won’t get fooled again and again by lying people, lying spirits, lying priests, lying churches, lying reverends, lying psychics, and the rest of the liars. It is time to go back to God’s word and believe the simple truth that the dead are currently dead, and that they will be made alive by God at an appointed time in the future, either in the first and/or second resurrection. What happens to those who are asleep in Christ? Christians who are asleep in Christ [dead], both Old Testament believers, who looked forward in faith to Christ's First Coming, and New Testament believers, who now look back in faith on the fulfillment of that promise, will be gathered together in the air and live and reign with Jesus Christ for 1000 years. Those who are asleep when Christ's comes a second time, have suffered the first death. there are those, however that are alive when Christ Returnss for His people and they are caught up together WITH them, not before, not after, but at the same time. Revelation 20:6. IThessalonians 4:13-18. This is the first resurrection Everyone else will take part in the second resurrection and they will be judged according to how they lived. Those that fail will die the second death which is eternal death. Revelation 20:13-15 21:5,8. Revelation 21:4; “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”There is a day coming when there is no death, no sorrow, no crying, and no pain, and those of us who are Christians will not be tortured in hell or purgatory. 1 John 3:2; “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” |
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