Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.
We are reading this because of my excitement! Very briefly, I thought I was ‘dreaming.’ This site is the result of my realization that the GREATEST excitement was realizing that I am blessed!
Definitions of blessed Adjective
- Highly favored or fortunate synonyms:blest, fortunate, golden, supremely favored.
- Adjective characterized by happiness and good fortune. Synonyms:Happy, enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
My demise on having an accident and drowning. Multiple surgeries, coma… My ‘Dream’! John on the island of Patmos had a ‘dream’ – While on Patmos, God gave John a vision of the final days of earth, and a peak at heaven. In the vision, John saw the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down from heaven to the new earth, for the old earth had been destroyed. https://www.inscc.utah.edu/~dtyndall/downloads/sunday_school_stories/JohnsVisionofHeaven.pdf
Very simply, I share what I experienced. Fact, are there any 200 year old individuals alive? Where is everyone from the past?
This verse represents a key component of Christian theology. In contrast to religious systems which teach that man is constantly re-born, or vanishes into nothingness, the Bible is very clear that all men experience a single permanent death. Once this happens, each person is accountable for their actions in life.
The present state is where you are now. You exist in this present state. From the moment of conception, you became a human being, that is, a “soul.” Your soul is eternal. Scripture teaches us that we exist from conception until death, from death until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the General Resurrection from the dead, and then, the New Heavens and the New Earth. This article will seek to answer what happens at death to both your body and soul.
What Happens After Death?
It is important to admit that the word “soul” is not merely a disembodied entity. In the Bible, “soul” is who you are. Consider Genesis:
God “breathed the breath of life” into Adam, and he became a “living soul” (Genesis 2:7; the New Revised Standard uses the word, “being”). Thus, in the biblical view, Adam does not have a soul; Adam is a soul (i.e., a person, a living being). The soul is, literally, “. . . that which breathes, the breathing substance or being.[1] In his article “Soul,” G.W. Moon says “In Christian theology the soul carries the further connotation of being that part of the individual that partakes of divinity and survives the death of the body.”
Our study leads us, then, to the place of the soul between death and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
When we say, “the intermediate state,” we are not speaking of “limbo” or “purgatory” or any such thing. We are speaking of that period in which the soul is in heaven and our remains await resurrection. That is the “intermediate state” in our personal eschatology.
Where Do Bodies Go After Death?
The redeemed are ushered into the eternal presence of the Lord, and those without an advocate (righteousness to meet God’s Law and sacrifice to atone for sin) are ushered into hell to await the New Heaven and New Earth.
The Bible teaches that the human spirit, upon departing the body, goes immediately into the presence of God for either His welcoming or His disapproval. Thus, our blessed Savior taught this truth when He gave the parable of the wicked in Hell crying out to Abraham for refreshment:
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish (Luke 16:19-25 ESV).
Heaven is reserved for those who follow Jesus. Jesus said, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me, and where I am, there shall My servant also be; if anyone serves Me, The Father will honor him.” Heaven is the final destination of the faithful.
Jesus obediently submitted to The Father, bent over, in tears and with revived resolution when he prayed the most POWERFUL prayer— “Not my will, but Yours be done.” Within Biblical context, this was Christ Jesus’ prayer to Our God in the Garden of Gethsemane the night Christ was betrayed and surrendered to the council to be crucified, not for anything He had done, but for my sin.
Here is how you can receive Christ:
- Admit your need. (I am a sinner.)
- Be willing to turn from your sins (repent) and ask for God’s forgiveness.
- Believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the cross and rose from the grave.
- Through prayer, invite Jesus Christ to come in and control your life through the Holy Spirit. (Receive Jesus as Lord and Savior)
We suggest a prayer like this one:
“Dear God, I know I am a sinner. I want to turn from my sins, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe that Jesus Christ is Your Son. I believe He died for my sins and that You raised Him to life. I want Him to come into my heart and to take control of my life. I want to trust Jesus as my Savior and follow Him as my Lord from this day forward. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”