WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH
An increasing number of people today believe
they have had an experience of coming back from death. They describe
death as being very pleasant.
But the Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes
9:5,6,10 that “the living know that they shall die: but
the dead know not any thing. . . . their love, and their hatred,
and their envy, is now perished. . . . Whatsoever thy hand findeth
to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device,
nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
Also in Psalms 146:4 we see that in death,
“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that
very day his thoughts perish.” Death is like a very deep
sleep. There are no thoughts or emotions, and without thoughts
or emotions there can be no consciousness. In death you are asleep
in the grave, without knowledge, without emotions, and without
consciousness.
There is a verse in the Bible that apparently
contradicts what we have just learned about death. Luke 23:42,43
describes Jesus’ assurance to the thief on the cross that
he would be saved. “And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember
me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him,
Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
These words were spoken on Friday afternoon just before Jesus
died. It appears that in this verse Jesus is telling the thief
that that day (Friday) he would be with the Lord in paradise;
thus, this verse seems to contradict the other verses showing
death to be like a very deep sleep, without consciousness.
However, consider John 20:17, where Jesus,
talking with Mary on Sunday morning after His resurrection, said,
“Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: But
go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father,
and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” So, on Sunday
morning Jesus made the statement that He had not yet been to
paradise, to God the Father. How, then, could He have told the
thief on the cross that he would be in paradise on Friday evening
with Jesus when He Himself would not be there? Where was Jesus
after He died on the cross? He was asleep in the grave, just
as the Scriptures say, until His resurrection on Sunday morning.
Jesus Himself said in Matthew 12:40 that He would remain in the
grave until his resurrection: “For as Jonas was three days
and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son
of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Where, then, is the problem? Since Luke
23:43 is the verse that stands in contradiction with the other
verses we have considered, there must be some problem with this
one. The difficulty can be resolved easily. The original Greek
text was written without punctuation. Punctuation was added later
by the translators. The problem with this verse is the placement
of the comma before the words “To day.” If the comma
is placed after the words “To day,” the verse says
that Jesus on that day promised the thief that he would be with
Him in paradise after the resurrection. This verse would then
agree with the other verses of Scripture concerning death. It
should therefore read, “Verily I say unto thee today, that
thou shalt be with me in Paradise.” Jesus promised the thief
“today” a place in paradise after the resurrection.
Remember that the entire Bible must agree with itself; this is
one of the methods God has given us so that we might know when
we have these difficult verses interpreted correctly. Remember
also that the original text had no punctuation and that the problem
is with the comma, which was put there by a translator who did
not understand.
The people who think they have died and
come back were not really dead.
Death is not the end, however. There is
to be a resurrection from death. Everyone who has died will experience
a resurrection and will live again. John 5:28,29 tells us: “Marvel
not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are
in the graves shall hear his voice, 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.”
The resurrection predicted in the Bible will be totally unlike
the reported experiences of people who believe they have died
and come back.
If you are very tired at night when you
go to bed you fall asleep quickly, and when you awake in the
morning it seemed but an instant. You were not conscious of any
time passing during the night. Death is exactly like that. The
time between a person’s death and his resurrection will
seem but an instant to him, even if he had been dead for a thousand
years.
BUT, YOU SAY, WHO ARE ALL THOSE PEOPLE
WHO SUPPOSEDLY HAVE COME BACK FROM THE DEAD?
What happens at seances when people’s
loved ones appear to come back and talk with them? For the answer
to these questions we go to Revelation 12:9. “And the great
dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into
the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” The devil
and his evil angels (demons) are right here on the earth with
us.
When someone appears to come back from
the dead, it is not really the person who died, for we know the
dead are in their graves and completely unconscious. It is the
devil or one of his many evil angels masquerading as the person
who died. These devils have the ability to masquerade as anyone
they want. Remember that Satan masqueraded as a serpent in the
Garden of Eden to tempt Eve.
When people see visions of Mary, the mother
of Jesus, for instance, they are seeing the devil or one of his
demons masquerading as Mary. Mary is asleep in her grave awaiting
her resurrection, as we have just read from the Bible. Seeing
a vision like this can be overwhelmingly deceptive. We must realize
that God cannot lie to us. What the Bible says is the truth.
Mary is asleep in her grave and cannot appear to anyone.
When Hillary Clinton visits with Eleanore
Roosevelt she is visiting with a demon.
HOW DO THE PSYCHICS KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT
YOU?
They are in communication with the devil
or his demons. When you go to a psychic for help or for advice
you are going to the devil, and you are asking for trouble. You
are asking to be deceived.
The devil uses the movies and television
to deceive people about death. Many movies and television programs
depict people, who have died, coming back and talking with people
who are still living. The devil has been extremely successful
in his deception about death. Very few people know the truth.
The people who have been deluded by witchcraft
are obsessed with death. They believe all sorts of things about
death, that death is a higher plane of existence, or that they
come back re-incarnated as something or other. Rest assured that
these people will be asleep in their graves like everyone else
at death, and, unless they repent and get with Christ and become
Christians, they will be resurrected with the wicked at the end
of time. Read our page on How the World
Will End to see how these people will be finally be destroyed
— forever.
For more insight into the world of demons,
witchcraft, and the occult read this letter from an ex-witch
about Harry Potter. Letter
Read more of the incredible details about
your death and your resurrection as explained in our book, Earth’s
Final Hours, Chapter 4.
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