DUST TO DUSTWHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINFRENCH PHILOSOPHER (1881-1955)

WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

GENESIS 1:26© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

THEN GOD SAID, “LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS...”

JOHN 12:27© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

NOW MY SOUL IS TROUBLED...

JOHN 13:21© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

WHEN JESUS HAD SAID THESE THINGS, HE WAS TROUBLED IN SPIRIT...

ZECHARIAH 12:1© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

THUS SAYS THE LORD, WHO STRETCHES OUT THE HEAVENS, LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND FORMS THE SPIRIT OF MAN WITHIN HIM.

PSALM 139:13,14© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

FOR YOU FORMED MY INWARD PARTS; YOU KNITTED ME TOGETHER IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB. I PRAISE YOU FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE. WONDERFUL ARE YOUR WORKS; MY SOUL KNOWS IT VERY WELL.

DEATH IS SEPARATION, NOT EXTINCTION AND NOT A LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

PHYSICAL DEATH IN THIS WORLD IS THE SEPARATION OF A PERSON’S SPIRIT AND A PERSON’S BODY.

GENESIS 35:18© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

AND SO IT WAS, AS HER SOUL WAS DEPARTING (FOR SHE DIED), THAT SHE CALLED HIS NAME BEN-ONI, BUT HIS FATHER CALLED HIM BENJAMIN.

JAMES 2:26© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO.

WE DO NOT STOP EXISTING AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH IN THIS WORLD. OUR SOUL LIVES ON.

WHAT DETAILS DO WE FIND IN LUKE 16:19-31?

BOTH MEN DIED.THEY WENT TO SEPARATE LOCATIONS.ONE WAS COMFORTED, ONE TORMENTED.NEITHER COULD CHANGE DESTINATION.BOTH ARRIVED THERE DUE TO CHOICES.ABRAHAM/RICH MAN WERE AWARE.RICH MAN KNEW WHY HE WAS THERE.

LUKE 23:43© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

AND JESUS SAID TO HIM, “ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU,TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.”

HADES IS AN UNSEEN REALM OF THE DEAD (BOTH GOOD + BAD), NOT ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OR REWARD. HADES IS NOT HEAVEN OR HELL.

WHAT HASN’T HAPPENED YET AT THE TIME OF THESE EVENTS? JUDGMENT.

HEBREWS 9:27© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

AND AS IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT...

JESUS (GOD) HAS POWER OVER HADES. THAT WORLD IS UNDER HIS DOMINION.

JOHN 11:43-44© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

...HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, “LAZARUS, COME FORTH!” AND HE WHO HAD DIED CAME OUT...

MATTHEW 16:18© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

AND I ALSO SAY TO YOU THAT YOU ARE PETER, AND ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HADES SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.

REVELATION 1:18© NEW KING JAMES VERSION

I AM HE WHO LIVES, AND WAS DEAD, AND BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE. AMEN. AND I HAVE THE KEYS OF HADES AND OF DEATH.

DUST TO DUSTWHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE