What does the Bible say about the afterlife?

Question

I remember reading somewhere in the Bible that we are to "sleep" after we die until we are caught up to meet with Christ before the rapture. I may be incorrect about the exact order of these events, but i am deeply curious, does anyone have any biblical evidence that reveals some insight as to what happens to us believers when we die before the second coming of Christ?

Answer 1

What the bible says about those who have died:

Ecclesiastes 9: 5 & 10 "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. All that yur hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol the place to which you are going."

Psalms 146:4 "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; In that day his thoughts do perish."

John 11: 11 Jesus was speaking of Lazarus who had died.
"He said these things, and after this he said to them: "Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep." Verse 14
"Lazarus has died."

So death is liken to being in a deep sleep. The hope for the dead is the resurrection. As Jesus showed when he resurrected Lazarus. He was not raised to heaven, but brought him back to earth as a human.

John 5: 28 & 29 "Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practied vile things to a resurrection of judgement."

Acts 24: 15 "and I have hope toward God, which hope these (men) themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous."

Romans 6: 7 & 23 "For he who has died has been acquitted from (his) sin." "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord."

When someone dies, they have paid for past sins, those who did not serve God prior to their death, will be judged according to their deeds after their resurrection.

Answer 2

I suppose I could whip out and list every text in the Bible pertaining to the state of the dead. However, I think it would be more useful to explain how to use your Bible so that you can answer this and many other questions yourself!

First pray for wisdom and guidance

Second get a concordance (or use an online concordance-they can be a powerful search tool)

Third, Look up the key words and see where they appear in the Bible and the context they appear in.

If you look up death, for example, you'll find some instances like this:

Lazarus is dead and Jesus raised him.

"The Dead know not anything."

"The dead in Christ shall rise."

Fourth. Ask some pertinant questions. Why would the dead in Christ need to rise if they are living with him in Heaven? Why would Jesus raise Lazarus to life...if Lazarus was in Heaven wouldn't that be like torturing him? How can the dead be tortured in hell if they don't know anything?

Fifth. Check out more texts and compare "line upon line and precept upon precept" Isaiah 28:10

Some good texts to start looking at the state of the dead on are:
John 11:11-14
Genisis 2:7 (explains about life)
Ecc. 3:19
Ecc. 12:7
Psalms 146:4
Ecc 9:5
Ecc 9:10
1 Thes. 4:13-18

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

PARADISE, the original perfect garden home of mankind, is no myth, no fairy tale. It is unlike the theory of evolution, which was taught in ancient Babylon, later taught by pagan Greek philosophers of the fifth and fourth centuries before Christ and recently revived in these last few centuries.

Paradise, where all was beautiful, peaceful, happy, healthful and life-sustaining, was a real parklike residence that was early lost to mankind. For almost six thousand years now mankind has been trying to exist outside and away from that garden home of pleasure and delight. The effects of this are seen in both the condition of the earth and the condition of mankind today. As the world situation of our generation worsens and becomes more threatening, one thing becomes plainer, becomes more certain: If the human family is to survive, Paradise needs to be restored early to this earth. Nothing could be better or more desirable for all mankind.

It seems almost too good to be true—that Paradise in all its grandeur will be restored, yes, be made earth wide, and that a numberless crowd of right-hearted persons today living will still be here on earth when this marvelous restoration begins. Why, that would mean entering into an opportunity to live forever on a paradise earth in complete peace, health and happiness! But this hope was held out to us by no one less than Jesus Christ, the Founder of Christianity, not of Christendom. Paradise is no more a myth or legend than He is. The proof of history is overwhelming that he was on earth as a perfect man nineteen centuries ago. Eyewitnesses and personal companions of His have left us written testimony of what he said and did—his blameless life, his unjust, violent death and his miraculous resurrection from the dead.

Answer 4

Why no longer seem it up and tutor it for your self as against in line with what different persons might desire to declare. as quickly as you agree it for your self you will no longer might desire to difficulty what different persons say. seem up in a Strongs or Youngs concordance: Hell you will detect some diverse words that are translated Hell. (Youngs is relatively extra desirable for this) Sheol, Hades---the two in basic terms as many circumstances translated grave or pit. So what does that inform you? Gehenna-- a rubbish sell off outdoors Jerusalem which replaced into continuously saved burning--appears like metaphor does not it. in basic terms like once you call somebody a Judas, you're actually not asserting they're actually Judas. Tartarus--in basic terms recent in Peter and that's the difficulty of the Fallen Angels. seem a lot of those up and all circumstances of utilization and are available on your individual end. while you're particularly severe approximately understanding the certainty of the concern, you will do this.

Answer 5

It is the same when we deal with death. It is often awaited even as a liberation from the suffering of this life. At the same time, it is not possible to ignore the fact that it constitutes as it were a definitive summing-up of the destructive work both in the bodily organism and in the psyche. But death primarily involves the dissolution of the entire psychophysical personality of man. The soul survives and subsists separated from the body, while the body is subjected to gradual decomposition according to the words of the Lord God, pronounced after the sin committed by man at the beginning of his earthly history: "You are dust and to dust you shall return." Therefore, even if death is not a form of suffering in the temporal sense of the word, even if in a certain way it is beyond all forms of suffering, at the same time the evil which the human being experiences in death has a definitive and total character. By His salvific work, the only-begotten Son liberates man from sin and death. First of all He blots out from human history the dominion of sin, which took root under the influence of the evil spirit beginning with original sin, and then He gives man the possibility of living in sanctifying grace. In the wake of His victory over sin, He also takes away the dominion of death, by His resurrection beginning the process of the future resurrection of the body. Both are essential conditions of "eternal life," that is, of man's definitive happiness in union with God; this means, for the saved, that in the eschatological perspective suffering is totally blotted out.

Answer 6

The Bible never mentions the Rapture. Not even once.

Answer 7

This can be hard to answer. Some say our spirits stay with us and we "sleep" awaiting Jesus' coming. Others say our spirit goes to God and then our physical bodies come out of graves, sea, etc - when Jesus' comes again. I have been taught the second one. Don't get to hung up on this - be glad you are a saved child of the King - Jesus. Blessings dear one.

Answer 8

I agree good question!! Research project!!!! all I can really remember is the bible says the dead in Christ will rise first. As for the rest ?????????????????????????????

Answer 9

Lots. But none true.

Answer 10

good questions i dont even know about it