DO YOU LIKE MYSTERIES?

This is not for the family and friends and people who know and who have made a choice either way. This is for those who do not know, those who have never been taught and those who have never studied for themselves. It is essential for you to study, research and investigate for themselves and then make an informed choice whether to accept or reject what is presented.

"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." 1 Corinthians 15:51-54

"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..." 1 Thessalonians 4:16


Except for the exceptions the bible gives (Moses, Enoch, Elijah, etc.), those who have died in Christ or died believing in Christ and having lived their lives as proof of that belief, do not go straight to Heaven. The bible makes it plain that they sleep until Christ returns to redeem his followers from the earth (see Acts 7:519,60; 1 Corinthians 15:21-23).

So all our loved ones who have died in Christ are asleep. Their spirits returned to God and their remains are in graves, in urns, in water (if they drowned), etc. They are not conscious. There are not in Heaven. They do not return to give you advice or encouragement. They do not go back to their houses (Job 7:9,10). They do not return as another person or animal. They are dead! Asleep or resting as the bible terms it.


These few texts do not convey all that the bible says concerning the death of those who are Christ's. To fully understand the truth about this issue, you have study the Bible believing two things. (1) God does not lie (2) God does not contradict himself, therefore there would be no contradictions* in His Word

*If we find any apparent contradictions, the disparity lies in our understanding, or misunderstanding rather.