{"id":37576,"date":"2022-09-13T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-the-burial-site-is-a-resting-place-till-judgement-day-then-why-do-people-talk-of-loved-ones-have-gone-to-a-better-place-with-our-lord\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:44:22","slug":"if-the-burial-site-is-a-resting-place-till-judgement-day-then-why-do-people-talk-of-loved-ones-have-gone-to-a-better-place-with-our-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-the-burial-site-is-a-resting-place-till-judgement-day-then-why-do-people-talk-of-loved-ones-have-gone-to-a-better-place-with-our-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"If the burial site is a resting place till judgement day, then why do people talk of loved ones have &#8220;gone to a better place with our Lord\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Good question. It seems as though there is a lot of confusion as to what happens when a person dies. Only the Bible can give us this important information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Lazarus died, our Lord said, &ldquo;&hellip;He (Jesus) saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep&hellip;Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.&rdquo; (John 11:11,14) If Lazarus had been in heaven, why would Jesus have brought him back to earth? Surely, heaven is a much better place to be. Additionally, why did Jesus say Lazarus was sleeping, if he had been conscious in heaven? The condition of death is called a sleep &#8211; a sleep until the resurrection when Jesus will awaken all mankind. (John 5:28,29)<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s look at another scripture, Acts 2:29, 34 reads, &ldquo;Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried and his sepulcher is with us this day&hellip;for David is <em>not ascended<\/em> into the heavens&hellip;&rdquo; No, these verses show King David is also sleeping in his grave and is not in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>The book of Ecclesiastes describes the condition of death in Ecc. 9:5, 10, &ldquo;For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward&hellip;Whatsoever they 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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Bible teaches when a person dies, he sleeps in death until the resurrection.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good question. It seems as though there is a lot of confusion as to what happens when a person dies. Only the Bible can give us this important information.&nbsp; When Lazarus died, our Lord said, &ldquo;&hellip;He (Jesus) saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep&hellip;Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-the-burial-site-is-a-resting-place-till-judgement-day-then-why-do-people-talk-of-loved-ones-have-gone-to-a-better-place-with-our-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If the burial site is a resting place till judgement day, then why do people talk of loved ones have &#8220;gone to a better place with our Lord\u201d?&#8221;<\/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-37576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576","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=37576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}