A querist asks, There are people who believe that when we die, we become non-existent, like the animal. Is this true?<\/p>\n
From Solomons inspired writing in Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, we know that as far the aspect of dying physically is concerned man has no advantage over the beast<\/strong> both will eventually die a physical death (visit a local cemetery). He continues with the same content of thought in Ecclesiastes 9:4-6.<\/p>\n The key phrase to note in the book of Ecclesiastes 1-12, is under the sun<\/strong> (cf. Ecclesiastes 1:3,9,14; 2:11,19,20,22; 3:16; 4:3,7). This phrase refers to all activity on earth<\/strong> (cf. Ecclesiastes 9:5-6).<\/p>\n When our physical body has served its designed purpose here on earth<\/strong>, it will die physically, (James 2:26; Hebrews 9:27), but the spirit that God has given us, will never die<\/strong> (cf. Genesis 2:7; Numbers 16:22; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 57:16; Zechariah 12:1). When we die, physically speaking, we will cease to have any more association with happenings here on earth<\/strong>, i.e., under the sun<\/strong> (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6).<\/p>\n When we die physically, our spirit will return back to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7), awaiting the judgment<\/strong>, in the realm of the unseen dead (Hades), either in Paradise or in a place of torment (Luke 16:19-31; cf. Luke 23:43). Whichever place we find ourselves in, we will be fully aware<\/strong> of our existence, our environment, and our ability to communicate with other people.<\/p>\n Job asked this penetrating question in Job 14:14: If a man dies [physically], shall he live again? Jesus answers that question in John 11:23-26, regarding Mary and Marthas brother, Lazarus, with a resounding Yes!<\/strong><\/p>\n Thus, those who believe and teach that when we die, were just like rover [like the beast] dead all over [non-existent], are in error<\/strong>. They need to do what the noble Bereans were willing to do search the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things are so (Acts 17:11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A querist asks, There are people who believe that when we die, we become non-existent, like the animal. Is this true? From Solomons inspired writing in Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, we know that as far the aspect of dying physically is concerned man has no advantage over the beast both will eventually die a physical death (visit … Continue reading “Are The Dead Like Rover \u2014 Dead All Over? – Bible study”<\/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-45511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45511","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=45511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}