{"id":37208,"date":"2022-09-13T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/where-are-the-dead-and-explain-the-meaning-of-soul-with-scriptural-references\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:28:51","slug":"where-are-the-dead-and-explain-the-meaning-of-soul-with-scriptural-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/where-are-the-dead-and-explain-the-meaning-of-soul-with-scriptural-references\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the dead and explain the meaning of soul with scriptural references."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thinking about your question on where are the dead, makes me think of the scripture in Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it<\/em> with all<\/em> your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in the grave <\/strong>(Hebrew “Sheol”) where you are going.” When Jesus spoke of death, he likened it to a sleep<\/strong>, as in the experience with Lazarus in John 11:11-14. When Jesus raised him from the sleep of death, Lazarus had no comment regarding his three days in the grave<\/strong>, which would have been the burning question in everyone’s mind. He simply was asleep in death. Other examples of this sleep of death are Acts 7:60, Acts 13:36, and 2Peter 3:4.<\/p>\n

There is also a great set of scriptures in Job, when he asks of God, “If only You would hide me in the grave<\/strong> (Hebrew “Sheol”) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time and then remember me.” (Job 14:13, 14) If the grave were a place of torment, why would Job pray to be hidden there? Also, he knew from the promises that there would come a time of resurrection for him and everyone else in their graves. (Just a note: a study in the words translated hell, grave, pit, will reflect what we are trying to bring out. Also, there are two texts in Jeremiah – Jeremiah 7:31 & 19:5 that manifest it never entering the mind of our Grand Creator to “burn” anyone. Jeremiah 7:31,“and places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire – something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.<\/strong>” God is not a god of torture.)<\/p>\n

When you establish where the dead are, the next question is, what’s next? We know from scripture, “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth<\/strong>…” (John 5:28, 29). What are they “coming forth” to – heaven, hell, earth, what? We see by the promise given to Abraham, “I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed…In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed<\/strong>, because you have obeyed My voice.” (Gen. 22:17-18). We also have our Lord’s Prayer, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth<\/strong>, as it is done in heaven.” (Matt. 6:10) There is hope for all, and with a more in-depth study the scriptures manifest themselves to show that the Lord will raise all men, in due time, some to a heavenly reward and some to a perfected earth to enjoy eternity here. <\/p>\n

Your question naturally arises then about the soul and what it is. The statement used when the Titanic sank describes it accurately: “More than 1,500 souls lost at sea.” They referred to the people who died as “souls.” This corresponds with the scriptural view of the matter. Genesis 2:7 states, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed (Hebrew: ‘blew’) into his nostrils the breath (Hebrew: ‘wind’) of life (Hebrew: ‘lives’ – plural, that is such as was common to all living animals); and man became<\/em> a living soul<\/strong> (a sentient being).” So, when we read in Ezekiel 18:4, “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die,” it shows that the entire being is a soul, not that we have one<\/strong>. Once the breath leaves the body, like when the flame is extinguished from a candle, the soul is dead and ceases to exist.<\/p>\n

I hope this helps and encourages more study into these wonderful truths! May the Lord bless your studies. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking about your question on where are the dead, makes me think of the scripture in Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in the grave (Hebrew “Sheol”) where you are going.” When Jesus spoke of death, … Continue reading “Where are the dead and explain the meaning of soul with scriptural references.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}