The problem with this sister Vickie is that it causes contradictions else where ...Therefore something is being misunderstood by us ...For we know the error is not with God ....So to find a correct answer we must look at all scriptures on a subject and find the answer God gives us that does not cause a contradiction in his Word...We are talking several differnt things here ... We have a flesh body, a spiritual/soul body, we have physical death and the spiritualy dead, We have before Christ death on the cross to conquer death sin...and after his death on the cross different rules applied before and after .... So truth lies in finding which he is speaking of here and how it applies withoutcausing a contradiction somewhere else... John 5:25 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." This verse covers two things, and there is a double witness to this. First of all, As it is written in I Peter 3:18, 19, 20, that Christ immediately after giving up the Ghost, (that is to say died on the cross); He went to those that were held captive, not physically but in their soul bodies. He went to those that lived all the way back "to the time of Noah", which means "the beginning" which then means back to Adam, and even to those of the six day creation before Adam, that were spiritually dead.I Peter 3:18, 19, and 20; "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" [18] "By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison," [19] "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering for God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." [20] These souls were spiritually dead because they could not overcome the penalty of sin for being under the law. Jesus had not paid the price yet. But when Christ had paid the price on the cross, God was fair and Jesus went to them and offered to them the same opportunity that we have today, to accept eternal life. Isaiah, Daniel and Jeremiah all were born before Christ went to the cross, don't you think these prophets of God have the same right to choose that you and I do? Of course they do.The second important point here is dealing with the transfiguring of the human body into the spiritual body. There are two men in the bible that the Bible records as not dying, but being taken by God. These two are Enoch, and Elijah. We also will be changed at the Lords coming into our spirit bodies (incorurptable) without dying for not all shall sleep (die)John 5:28 "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice,"This again is what we talked about in I Peter 3:18-20, when those that believed came out of the holding place for souls of the physically dead, in their soul bodies they visibly walked the streets of Jerusalem. Jesus is the fountain of life, and when Jesus offered life to those spiritually dead souls, they sprang to life from the authority of Jesus. God treats all His children the same, regardless of their race or what period of time they were born within this flesh age.John 5:29 "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of Life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." After each soul has heard Jesus' voice, and those that have accepted Him and repented, Jesus is giving them eternal life, which is "the resurrection of life". Then those that have heard Jesus and chose not receive Him, will have done evil in refusing the mercies of God, and their souls are damned to hell fire. Don't overlook the fact that there will also be the time of the Millennium age, whereby the teaching and discipline will come prior to the final judgment day.The flesh body returns to the earth/dust not the spirit 2Cr 5:8 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Remember... Lazarus's story here was anyone trapped in a dead body?