( Revelation 20:5, Ezekiel 37:6) (The Last Days).
Judgment for a non believer is different than that of a believer. Tell me friend is your name in the Lamb's Book of Life?
The writers of The Bible commonly referred to death as sleep, not just because death and sleep both involve unconsciousness, but because both are a state of being from which people awaken. According to God's plan, some will be resurrected as spirit at The Return Of Jesus Christ (e.g. 1 Corinthians 15:50-54), while others will be resurrected physical after the 1,000 years Why physical again? So that they may have an opportunity to truly understand and repent, just as the those of the first resurrection did earlier. Then, as physical beings, they will be subject to judgment based on what they did. The judgment of those resurrected, or transformed if alive that day, into spirit beings at Christ's return will already have been completed. Otherwise, they would not have been in the first resurrection - those found worthy to reign with Christ during the 1,000 years (Revelation 20:6).
Those Of The Physical Resurrection
"The hand of The Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by The Spirit of The Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones. And He led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the valley; and lo, they were very dry. And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"
"And I answered, "O Lord God, thou knowest."
"Again he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of The Lord. Thus says The Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am The Lord."
"So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. And as I looked, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them."
"Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says The Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great host."
Judgment
As the Scriptures above plainly state, the judgment will not come immediately after those people are resurrected to physical life. They will live and get to know, truly know, what God requires of them. After that -
"Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it; from His presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:11-15 RSV)
Did Isaiah also say that "the earth would give birth to her dead"?
Isaiah 26:19
2007-08-19 18:22:26
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answer #1
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answered by INCOGNITO 3
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Ezekial 37:15 ¶ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
The Stick of Judah is the Bible, since it was for the Jews, And the stick of Ephraim, or for Joseph, is the Book of Mormon, since in the Book of Mormon it says that the Nephites were decendents of Joseph. And they are one in our hand since we use both.
If the Book of Mormon isn't the stick of Ephraim, I don't know what is.
2007-08-19 00:57:26
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answer #5
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answered by HighFlyDanger 4
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