If You Died Yesterday, Where Would Your Soul Be Today?
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Dear Adrift,
If I died yesterday, I would be dead and would not be typing this response. I would remain dead until the bodily resurrections occur at the end of this age. 100% certain.
Paradise is the resting place of the OT faithful who had died. This includes the thief on the cross since he died prior to the New Covenant commencing. Like everyone who dies, the OT faithful are in a state of death awaiting the resurrections.
Look what Daniel was told:
Dan 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
"Sleep" is the spiritual symbol for death. Upon the resurrections from the grave, everyone will appear before Christ's White Throne judgment where Christ will separate everyone as "sheep (life) from the goats (shame)" (Mat 25:32).
Also, look at what Paul said to the Thessalonians believers who had lost loved ones. Paul could have told them to not be concerned because they are alive in "heaven" with Christ. But Paul said no such thing because it was not true.
Here is what Paul told the Thessalonians about their loved ones:
1Thes 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Paul reminds the Thessalonians of the coming resurrections from the grave and that is the truth that should give them "comfort".
Joe
I just looked into this a few months ago. I found a dozen verses scattered all over the Bible saying the soul goes to the grave.
BlessedPeace
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I believe my spirit is with Christ in the heavenly realm, and that this remains true after my physical death in this realm. I believe to close my eyes here is to open them there. I imagine I'm as certain as a person in this realm can be. I don't think I'm infallible, but this is what I'm expecting.
Much love!
DavidTaylor
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I like David’s answers in the Psalms to where he expects to be, after his body has died.
Psalms 23
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Psalms 73
23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
1.) If the body rots?
2.) If the soul goes back to God?
3.) If the spirit goes back to God?
Then what are the dead?
Lambano
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Yeah, I remember "evangelism classes" where one of the conversation starters they taught us was to come up to a stranger (or even a friend) and ask, "If you were to die tonight, where would you go?" That approach always struck me as being a little contrived or dishonest. And I dislike trying to leverage fear to get the outcome you wanted. I don't see the great evangelist Paul using that approach anywhere in Acts or his letters.
But, one of my lab techs was a big Jimmy Buffet fan, so I thought about getting a t-shirt made that said,
"If the volcano were to blow tonight, do you know where you're a-gonna go?"
BlessedPeace
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Good point.
If it were me I'd answer, straight up and on fire.
Volcanos,ya know.
I am more interested in peoples honest level of confidence in their expectation. Are you 70%, 98%, 100% or whatever, confident that you are right?Good point.
If it were me I'd answer, straight up and on fire.
Volcanos,ya know.
Lambano
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Is that a measurement of how much you trust Christ to save you, or of how confident you are in your own righteousness?
DavidTaylor
Member
100% confidence,
according to the teaching of John.
I John 5
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him
Bob Estey
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We are supposed to have faith in the Lord, so our souls will be in heaven tomorrow, if we die today.
I believe this one
John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Carl Emerson
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John 14
1“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God believe also in me.
2In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
My Jesus is not in the grave.
1“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God believe also in me.
2In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
My Jesus is not in the grave.
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