Where Are the Dead?

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Where Are the Dead?
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Current Theories

• Purgatory
• Where is the Scripture?
• No Scripturenot revealed by God
• Reincarnation
• No credible evidence
• Humans become angels
• Where is the Scripture?
• Already in heaven
• Hebrews 927

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Only Gods Word Can Answer This Question

• Cant know by human reasoning.
• Beyond physical and natural realm.
• Cant know from human experience.
• Weve never been therenot yet anyway.
• Must use Gods word to find the truth.
• A Thus saith the Lord.

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What Is Man?

• But one testified in a certain place, saying
  What is man that You are mindful of him, or the
  son of man that You take care of him? Hebrews
  26
• Man is a composite being.
• Then the dust will return to the earth as it
  was, and the spirit will return to God who gave
  it. Ecclesiastes 127

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What Is Man?

• And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
  ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
  of life and man became a living being.
  Genesis 27
• Flesh and spirit.
• I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my
  body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
  Daniel 715

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Defining Life and Death

• For as the body without the spirit is dead, so
  faith without works is dead also. James 226
• DEATHseparation of body and spirit
• LIFEunion of body and spirit

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The Bodys Destination

• The body returns to the dust from which it was
  taken.
• In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
  till you return to the ground, for out of it you
  were taken for dust you are, and to dust you
  shall return. Genesis 319

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The Bodys Destination

• Paul compared the fleshly body to a tenta
  temporary dwelling place.
• For we know that if our earthly house, this
  tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God,
  a house not made with hands, eternal in the
  heavens. 2 Corinthians 51

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The Bodys Destination

• The body is only temporary.
• It will perish
• It will decay
• It will grow old
• It is corruptible
• In asking, Where are the dead, we must ask
  Where do our spirits go?

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The Bodys Destination

• For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
  and this mortal must put on immortality. So when
  this corruptible has put on incorruption, and
  this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be
  brought to pass the saying that is written Death
  is swallowed up in victory. 1 Corinthians
  1553,54

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The Spirits Destination

• The spirit does NOT go
• To the GRAVE.
• Only the body is in the grave.
• To PURGATORY.
• No Biblical proof
• Directly to HEAVEN or HELL.
• Contradicts other Bible teaching.

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The Spirits Destination

• Where does the spirit go?
• Christ promised the penitent thief that he would
  be in Paradise.
• Christ said TODAY.
• And Jesus said to him, Assuredly, I say to you,
  today you will be with Me in Paradise. Luke
  2343
• Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet
  ascended to My Father but go to My brethren and
  say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and
  your Father, and to My God and your God. John
  2017

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The Spirits Destination

• Christ said He was going to Paradise.
• He DID NOT go to the Father.
• The Father is in heaven.
• Matthew 69
• Therefore, Heaven and Paradise can NOT be the
  same place.
• Christ did not go to heaven when He died (Acts 1)

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Where Did Our Lord Go?

• Two things to notice
• The Lords body would not see corruption.
• His soul would not be left in Hades.
• I have set the LORD always before me Because
  He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
  Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory
  rejoices My flesh also will rest in hope. For
  You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You
  allow Your Holy One to see corruption. Psalm
  168-10)

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Where Did Our Lord Go?

• Hades- A Greek word that means unseen realm.
• He, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the
  resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not
  left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.
  This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all
  witnesses. Acts 231,32)

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Where Did Our Lord Go?

• When Jesus died, His soul went to Paradise.
• When Jesus died, His soul went to Hades.
• Paradise Hades!
• Realm of disembodied souls awaiting final
  resurrection.
• Christ was NOT left there He arose the third
  day. Matthew 281-6

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The Spirits Destination

• Jesus bodygrave
• Jesus spirithades
• Our bodiesgrave
• Our spiritsHades

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Characteristics of the Hadean World

• The rich man and Lazarus
• Luke 1619-31

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Consciousness of the Dead

• But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your
  lifetime you received your good things, and
  likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is
  comforted and you are tormented. Luke 1625

• What
• Will You Remember?