It is the human body which returns to the dust (not dust and ashes). But the souls and spirits of the saints are in Heaven with Christ and the souls and spirits of the unsaved are in Hades. The "last day" is a period of time stretching over more than 1,000 years. And the unsaved dead will be raised to stand before the Great White Throne towards the end of "the last day".
Hi thanks.... With all do respect I see that a little differently..
The unsaved will have nothing to be raised in
or with .
I would offer. Ashes in the end.... going up in smoke they will never to rise as a new Creation . . . . the old earth or foundation is the witness of a residue of ashes. I think some call a hope of ashes rising the like Phoenix Something to be careful of. The old is not clothed or inherit the new .The new is not made of the rudiments of this this world .No one knows what the incorruptible will be other than incorruptible.
No rudiments of this world, What I call deader than a door nail . No memory of former things of the old corrupted earth.
When God saw pride in his head angel He corrupted the first creation . The wage of death was body, soul, spirit . Dead not eternally suffering.
The wrath or hell (tribulation) seeing hell is a living suffering it is being revealed from heaven even today .
Hell is described by the last as sign as a wonder which was fulfilled in Jesus signified by Jonas suffering likened to Jesus. . Hell is a living work of suffering with no rest called.
The punishment of Cain that he said he could not bear .this was because he refused to believe in a God not seen, Christ gave him no rest coming from his work of redemption, in his daily work that God had increased as punishment. . He became a restless wanderer who hated people of a faith, they preached their faith came from their savior.. Cain a marked man ( Unbelief ) God protected him from the hands of men he suffered his who life without a living hope of Christ sabbath . A work that Christ alone performed in our stead.
I would think the earth sets the stage used to reveal the gospel of Christ in respect to his bride the church the gospel. It is the gospel that can give a person his sabbath rest.
In both examples ( Jonas and Jesus ). . . of hells great fury the wrath of God we can see a living work of suffering being perform .(no dead sacrifices) Death shows spirit life has departed.
The wrath of God is the same as the wrath of hell men have divided that wrath and developed doctrine as a remnant here and another there . But death has one purpose to reveal the wrath of hell... the suffering we do perform in these bodies of death.
For I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1: 16- 20
I am offering three examples below of the finality of the death sentence of those who do not receive a new born again spirit that will rise on the last day . According to the rendering of the phrase "last day" it is used 6 or seven times in John .Both the day we receive our new bodies and the same twinkling of the eye the second death thrown into the lake of judgment never to rise to new spirit life forever more.
The promise of his wrath.
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou art, and unto
dust shalt thou
return.
Our breath of life..
Psalm 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their
breath, ( spirit) they die, and
return to their dust.
The flesh without the spirit essence is dead .. Just as faith as a work, without the ability of the spirit to move is dead (James 2:20 )
Ecclesiastes 12:7Then shall
the dust return to the earth as it was: and
the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
(1) As
it was (No life). . . . one source of no life
(2) unto God who gave
it. (life) . . . the living source.