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What happens to the Christian at the time of death?
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I watched my husband draw his last breath. He seemed exactly the same but there was silence and stillness. Something was gone and where it went I have my faith to sustain me.
They go to be with the Lord.
With the Lord.
RevTestament
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1 Peter 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1 Peter 3:18 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:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
I should add there is also a paradise where the just spirits go to await resurrection:
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1 Peter 3:18 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:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
I should add there is also a paradise where the just spirits go to await resurrection:
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
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Jerry Shugart
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"For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 1According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first" (1 Thess.4:14-16).
When the Lord Jesus will meet the living saints in the air those who have passed away in Christ will be brought with Him.
That means that they are in heaven.
journey
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At the time of a Christian's death, he or she is absent from the body and present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 KJV 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight ) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 KJV 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight ) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Yep
They are not dead, they are sleeping.
"And then, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptable, and we shall be changed. For this corruptable must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? 1 Corinthians 15:52, 53, 54, 55.
"And then, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptable, and we shall be changed. For this corruptable must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? 1 Corinthians 15:52, 53, 54, 55.
I dont see anything about sleep in that verse.
Don't be such a nit picker.
"Behold I show you a mystery : WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, but we shall all be changed" 1 Corinthians 15:51.
We shall not all die, is a more appropriate translation - context begins with those who are alive.
We are all going to die, but for the Christian death is sleep.
Their body, not their spirit.
Kept by the power of God (1 Pe 1:5). :cloud9:
Lot's of Hyper-Dispensationalists believe in soul sleep.
Example:
What kind of bodies are these saints in that allegedly come with Christ at the alleged rapture?
For example, the Apostle Paul physically died over 1,900 years ago. Where has he been since his death?
"1 Co 15:18 fallen asleep. A common euphemism for death (cf. vv. 6, 20; 11:30; Matt. 27:52; Acts 7:60; 2 Pet. 3:4). This is not soul sleep, in which the body dies and the soul, or spirit, supposedly rests in unconsciousness." MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1755). Nashville, TN: Word Pub.