For your consideration: God is very clear that until this day of Judgment, we are all in the grave asleep or sheowl... Daniel 12:2 "and many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt".
The is referring to the body only! The reference to them awaking, is referring to the resurrection of their bodies. We have other scriptures that demonstrate that at the time of death the spirit departs and goes to be in the presence of the Lord. Once the church has been completed, the Lord will descend and will call up the dead and then those still alive will be transformed immortal and glorified and will be caught up with them to meet the Lord in the air.
Likewise, for those who die in their sins, their bodies are buried in the earth and their spirits depart down into Sheol/Hades where they begin the punishment in torment in flame, just as the rich man of Lazarus fame did and is still in torment. At the end of the thousand years, they unsaved dead throughout all of history will receive resurrected bodies, albeit mete for their eternal punishment.
When evil people die, they leave a memorial of there actions or everlasting contempt. It doesn't say everlasting torment. God will take these memories from us, We will forget them, but God will not. The idea of lethal injection I believe came from God, because he states in Matthew through Jesus , that both their body and soul will be destroyed. Daniel 12:2 is clear that all who have died, will be awakened AGAIN for the judgment. Isaiah 43:4 is clear that everything that is evil and this creation will roll up like a scroll, including the host of them that rejected him and they will dissolve and disappear forever.
This current heaven and earth will be rolled up like a scroll, not the unsaved.
That is Gehenna or the lake of fire, what we called Hell. It is a very fast action, with forever results...not forever torment. I'm sure they will see there actions and rejection of God and his gift of Jesus as they dissolve away into non existence.
On the contrary, scripture states they will exist forever in torment. What would be the point of giving them a resurrected body if God was just going to annihilate them? Consider the following:
"And they will go away into
eternal punishment, but the righteous into
eternal life.”
The word 'aionios' translated as 'eternal' is used for both the righteous and the wicked in the verse above. Therefore, the word has to mean the same for both groups. Since we know that eternal life is never ending existence in the kingdom of God, then eternal punishment would have to mean never ending existence in punishment, i.e. in never ending punishment in separation from God in the lake of fire.
Furthermore, the words that are translated as 'destroyed' (olethros, Apoleia, apollumi) none of them infer annihilation, but rather to be completely cut off, complete loss of well being, eternal ruination.
Whatever you interpret the word to mean, it has to mean the same for both groups.
When the little girl died, the people were crying and Jesus kindly rebuked them when he said in Matthew 9:24- "Go away, the girl isn't dead, she is sleeping." This lines up with Daniel 12:2, which states again, "many who sleep in the dust of the earth, awake." .
"But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, “Child, get up!”
Her spirit returned, and at once she got up."
The fact that the scripture states that her spirit returned to her body, demonstrates that her body was asleep and her spirit would have had to be somewhere else. This is a good example of why it is important to read all related scriptures on any given Biblical subject.
Obviously, for the judgment. No one is in heaven yet and hades was for the demons, not us. We die or "sleep" as Jesus said
Wrong on both counts!
Hades is where the spirit of the rich man of Lazarus fame went. For it states that he died and "In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side." The Abyss is where demons are located, not Hades. The Abyss is the same place where the beast currently resides and will be released from at the 5th trumpet. Hades is reserved for the unrighteous dead. And they are pouring in there 24/7.
Regarding Hades, Jesus also said, "And you Capernaum, do yo think that you will be lifted up to heaven? No, but you will be brought down to Hades," demonstrating that Hades is under the earth
Everyone who has died throughout all of history, their spirits are conscious and aware. For the spirits of the righteous in heaven, they are awaiting the resurrection from heaven side. While we who are looking for His imminent appearing are looking to be changed immortal and glorified and caught up to meet Him in the air.
My advise to you is, trust in the word of God and not your own feelings. To King David, God's word was a Lamp unto him. It should be the same for all who believe.
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