Where Do We Go When We Die?

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where

do we go

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we die? I suppose this is a question that every man who has ever lived has thought about because death is something we all face as we grow and mature. we see those around us die we see our grandparents die and maybe then we see our parents die too maybe even our siblings and friends and the truth is clear that we are also going to die and we wonder what then you know a lot They have been given many strange ideas to answer this question, some have suggested reincarnation which is the idea that if you have lived a good life you return in the form of another creature, some have the idea of ​​a ghost and have the idea that you return as a spirit and you live in the house

where

you used to live.

Some have the idea of ​​purgatory, that is, you go to a place of punishment until you have paid your debt and then you can move on from there and of course many. People have this idea that you just cease to exist, it's

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you take your last breath that there will be no more conscious existence, but you know as a Christian I don't have to engage in a guessing game, I don't have to shop. in superstitions or myths because I can know the answers to the questions not only where I come from but also where I am going in this lesson we are going to trace the journey of the human soul and we are going to let the bible answer us where we go when we die now the journey of the Human soul actually does not begin on this earth, it begins in heaven.

I want you to listen to Ecclesiastes chapter 12 and verse 7. This is a verse we use often. to talk about death but I want you to listen particularly to the end of the verse then the dust will return to the earth as it was and the spirit will return to god who gave it Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 9 calls God the father of spirits and So, the spirit originally comes from heaven, it comes from God, and at the moment of conception, when the egg meets the sperm and a human life is created, God places a soul, places a spirit in that new body, you know, the mother and father give.

That child has his physical characteristics but they do not give him his soul. God does that. Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26. God said, let us, that is the divinity. Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Now, what does it mean to be made in the image of God? reference to the soul of man, he is a being that will now live for eternity and, therefore, when a human is conceived, God makes him in the image of God by placing a soul in him, now animals do not. We have that we are far superior to animals in that sense now from the moment God places a soul in the newly formed human being it will continue to inhabit that physical body until that person dies second Corinthians 5 and verse 1 says because we know that If our earthly house, this tent that only speaks of our physical body, is a tent, it is a temporary dwelling for the soul.

We know that if our earthly house, this tent is destroyed, we have a building of God, a house not made with eternal hands in the heavens. First Corinthians 15 54 talks about our physical body and refers to the physical body as corruptible and that is why our soul during the 70 or 80 years that we have this physical body inhabits this corruptible carnal body now during that time we worship God with our spirit comes from the physical body but ultimately emanates from our soul from our spirit john 4 24 says that god is a spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth so we involve the physical body but our spirit is the seat of worship the spirit is the heart of man we worship god with our spirit we love god with our spirit with our soul luke 10 and verse 27 you will love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul with all your strength and with all your mind now as the physical body wears away solomon describes this process in ecclesiastes chapter 12 he says remember now your creator in the days of your youth before the difficult days come which is when it begins to age the physical body ages he says that life becomes harder in many ways he says the years are approaching when you say I have no pleasure in them many people when they approach the end they are simply ready to go and be with the lord because physically life becomes very hard for them he says while the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are not dark and that's because your eyesight starts to fail you have to get bifocals and he says in the clouds do it he doesn't come back after the rain on the day when the housekeepers start to shake He is talking about the hands begin to shake and the strong men bow down that is to say your legs become weak you fall he says when the grinder stops because there are few of them your teeth fall out and he says and those who look through the windows get dark when The doors close in the streets and the squeak is low when you wake up to the sound of a bird you don't sleep well like you did when you were younger and all the daughters of music become despondent it means that you are losing your hearing they also have fear of heights and terrors on the road when the almond tree blooms your hair turns gray says the grasshopper that's how small the creature is a burden wish fails your wish changes as you grow older says why a man goes to his eternal home and the mourners walk through the streets says remember your creator before the silver cord comes loose or the golden bowl breaks or the pitcher shatters in the fountain or the wheel breaks in the well that is you are going to die now listen he says then the dust will return to the earth as it was that is the corruptible body it is going to die it is going to decompose it leaves to return to the earth and the elements now listen and the spirit will return to god who gave it what happens then what happens When I die for 75 or 80 years, no matter how long my soul lives in this physical body, what happens when the physical body says Psalm 90 and verse 10 says that the days of our lives are 70 years and if by reason of strength they are 80 years still his boasting is just work and sadness because soon it is cut off now listen and we fly, we fly is' That fascinating language genesis 35 18 describes Rachel's death and uses this language and it happened when her soul was departing james 2 26 says that the body without the spirit the body is dead without the spirit that is very fascinating and then when I die my soul leaves this old corruptible body but where it goes you know on the day of resurrection we know that we are going to have a new body we are going to have a incorruptible body but what happens in the meantime I want to hear this description in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 1. because we know that if our earthly house this tent the corruptible body is destroyed we have a building from God a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens right now we have a tent we have a temporary body but we are going to get a building a lasting body an eternal body verse 4 because we who are in this tent groan and are burdened not because we want to be unclothed but more clothed so that mortality may be devoured For life now there is very interesting language here because he talks about being in this body as if he were clothed in a tent and then he talks about being in the resurrected body as if he were in an eternal building in the heavens, but then he also talks about being naked which is a What does it mean when is that going to happen?

Well, it is when we die and the soul leaves the corruptible physical body. You see, there will be a period in which the spirit or soul will not have a body, it will be naked. If so, when I die and my spirit leaves my body, where will it go now? That will bring us to the next part of this journey. The entire second section of this chart comprises what is known as Hades. This is the Hadian kingdom. Now many. people are confused by the term hades because they think that hades refers to hell, they think that it refers to the place of punishment and that is not correct, the word hades actually refers to the abode of the dead, it is a kind of area waiting for disembodied spirits the good who die go to hades the bad who die go to hades I think part of the reason we are confused about this is because the King James Version translates the Greek word for hades as hell and that gives us confusing in the original. language there are two different words the two different words there are different words there is a word for hades and a word for gehenna now hades is the abode of the dead gehenna is hell but king james translates both words as hell in matthew 16 18 when jesus promised build his church and said that the gates of hell would not prevail against it.

This is not hell. This is the word for Hades. It means that death would not stop death from stopping his kingdom now if you don't understand it. The distinction in these words is going to confuse you a lot now, by the way, just as a side note, the Old Testament word for hades, the Hebrew word for hades is the word shield, she and hades will refer to the same place, so Once you understand that all people go to hades when they die, it will clarify some things for you, for example, in acts chapter 2 and verse 31, the bible refers to christ after his death as being in hades now the king version James says hell, but the word there refers to hades jesus did not go to hell when he died, he went to the hadean kingdom to hades, but luke 23 43 when christ was about to die, he said he was going to go to paradise now that you understand that paradise is in hades, everything makes a lot of sense because paradise is a compartment of hades in hades there is a place where the righteous go and there is a place where the wicked go everyone is waiting for the day of judgment now the best description we have in the hades bible it is in luke chapter 16. it describes both compartments now i want us to read it together, let's look at it together and then we will discuss it luke chapter 16 starting in verse 19. the bible says that there was a certain rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and he ate sumptuously every day but there was a certain beggar named Lazarus full of sores who was lying at his door wishing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table and the dogs came and licked his sores so it was that the beggar He died and was carried by the angels to the bosom of Abraham the rich man also died and was buried and was in torment in Hades now King James uses the word hell he says he was in hell but that is not correct the new King James says correctly that he was in Hades being in Hades he raised his eyes and saw Abraham from afar and Lazarus in his womb and then he cried father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to wet the tip of his finger. in water and cool my tongue because I am tormented in this flame but Abraham said son remember that in your life you received your good things and also Lazarus bad things but now he is comfort and you are tormented and also all this between us and you there is a great abyss arranged so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot and those from there cannot pass to us now I want us to first look at this place where Lazarus was taken they tell us that when he died when Lazarus died he was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom now This is the chamber of hades where the righteous go to await judgment.

It is the place known as paradise. This is the same place that Christ promised the thief on the cross that he would go. Remember he said in Luke 23 43. Truly I say to you, you will be with me in paradise in luke 16 25 the bible tells us that in this place the righteous are consoled in fact if you study the background the etymology of the word paradise carries with it the idea of ​​a garden of pleasure now the opposite compartment of hades is where man went rich this place is a place of torment now this section of hades is called tartarus in the original greek peter uses this word in second peter 2 and verse 4 when he said because if god did not forgive the angels who sinned but threw them into tartarus and He handed them over to the chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment, they are waiting for the day of judgment now this place is described for us in luke 16 verses 22 and 23 this way.

Verse 22 says that the rich man also died and was buried Verse 23 listen to this and in hell King James says hell the word is hades and in hades he lifts up his eyes being in torment now normally when I teach on this topic it would happen Some time ago We talked about the misery and suffering of this place and we could dedicate an entire lesson just to that topic, but for now let's briefly note that this tormented rich man is burning with fire, he is crying out for mercy, he is begging. mercy, he believes that a simple drop of water would bring him at least a moment of relief and I want you to appreciate with me that every person from the beginning of this world until now, every person who has died lost in the eyes of God is in this place many of them have been there for thousands of years many only for minutes some for seconds but they are there and they are suffering now another observation that I want us to notice is the fact that there is consciousness in the Hadian realm, you know?

There is a doctrine taught by some in the religious world called the sleeping soul and the sleeping soul suggests that when a person dies he enters a state of unconsciousness and is no longer conscious, but this passage and others teach us that after death. the men are veryaware of what is happening, the rich man cries in pain, Lazarus takes comfort, you know Psalm 116 and verse 15 says precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his holy friends. I don't think it refers to them slipping into a state. of unconsciousness that doesn't make any sense to me, you know, I once taught on this topic and a gentleman came to me afterward and said, Don, that was a great lesson, he said, but you need to read this particular passage because you're wrong. about there being consciousness in the Hadean kingdom and he handed me a piece of paper.

Well, I unfolded it and looked at it. It was Ecclesiastes chapter 9 and verse 5 where the Bible says that the dead know nothing the dead know nothing, but you know I was misinterpreting that verse because I was taking it out of context, in fact, if you look at the next verse in Ecclesiastes chapter 9, verse number 6, use that phrase again under the sun again. it is used in verse 3. it is used in verse 9. it is used in verse 13. and the context of this passage is the things that happen in this world, the things under the sun, the things on this earth and the point of the passage is that when you die and go to paradise or torment you are no longer aware of what is happening on this earth now to prove that in second chronicles chapter 34 god told king josiah that god was going to bring punishment on jerusalem for his sins but that he was going to die and he was not going to see it happen now once you hear the language in verse number 28, he said: I will surely reunite you with your parents, that is, you are going to die, you will be reunited with your Grave and peace and your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring to this place and its inhabitants.

Now what's the point? He will have died, he will have gone to Hayden's kingdom, so he wasn't going to see what was going to happen. place on this earth the dead know nothing regarding what is happening here now one last thing I want you to notice about the hadean kingdom, notice that on the graph between paradise and torment there is a green line and it has the words great golf that is because luke 16 26 says there is a division there is a large gulf arranged so that no one can pass from one side to the other once you are in paradise you are there to stay until judgment day once be there in torment you are there to stay until judgment day and that means that every person who has ever died unfaithful in the eyes of God is still there many have been there for thousands of years, some for a minute, others for seconds, but I think about them crying I'm tormented in this flame but it doesn't end now that brings us to the next section of this painting which is the day of the resurrection the day of the resurrection is what we typically call the day of judgment the bible He calls this day the day of the Lord Peter says but the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night second Peter 3 10.

Now what is going to happen on that day the day of judgment for the souls that are in hades that are in paradise or torment what is is going to happen to them on that day the Hadean kingdom is going to hand over all the souls it contains and will also cease to exist on that day the earth is going to hand over the bodies John 5 28-29 Jesus said for the coming hour in which all those who are in the tombs will hear his voice and those who have done good will come out to the resurrection of life those who have done evil to the resurrection of damnation or condemnation and then the souls the spirits that have come from hades will be reunited with the bodies that have been resurrected on earth but with this new union the new body the new body is going to be different the resurrected body is not going to be like the physical body that we resurrected people have now The body will not be made of the same particles that were placed in the tomb.

The resurrected body will be a different material. If you want to use that term, you know that sometimes people express concern about cremating their bodies because they think it will be a problem. problem in the resurrection but the resurrected body is not going to be composed of the same elements that we have on this earth how do I know that 1 corinthians 15 50 says that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god the resurrected body will not be a body of flesh and blood listen to this from verse 44 of first Corinthians 15 the body that is the physical body is sown in corruption the resurrected body is resurrected in incorruption is sown in dishonor is raised in glory is sown in weakness is resurrected in power is sown a natural body resurrects a spiritual body there is a natural body there is a spiritual body now let's analyze this what we just read says the resurrected body will be incorruptible you see our current bodies are subject to death they grow old they wear out but the new body will not wear out in a second place the resurrected body will be a glorious body our current bodies have many things associated with them that are not glorious they are low and vile, the new body will be something of beauty, joy and purity, thirdly, the resurrected body, it says, will be resurrected in can.

You know, our current bodies get tired, they are inherently weak, the resurrected body will have an inexhaustible vigor of which it will be capable. inexhaustible activity the resurrected body will be spiritual, you know, our current bodies are natural, he says that the resurrected body will be designed for spiritual life instead of physical carnal life, so the day of judgment will be a day of resurrection, it is the day that hades will be destroyed, it is the day that we will obtain our new resurrected incorruptible spiritual bodies, now with that in mind, listen to 1 corinthians 15 54-55, so when this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then he will be taken to pass the saying that is written death is devoured by victory or death where is your sting oh hades where is your victory? death and hades will be defeated on that day in other words, the physical grave and the temporary abode of the dead the hadean kingdom both come to an end on the day of judgment you say well what about those of us who are still alive when the day of judgment comes first corinthians 15 52 says in a moment in the blink of an eye at the last trumpet the dead will rise incorruptible and we will be transformed and so the living will also be transformed into an incorruptible body and then we will be gathered before the throne of god after both the good and the evil have received a resurrection body we will stand before the throne of christ and be judged matthew 25 and verse 32 says and the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate them one from another like the shepherd separates his sheep from the goats and all of humanity friends all of humanity will be there on that day the rich the man and Lazarus will appear before God to receive their eternal judgment Abraham Isaac and Jacob will be there Ahab Jezebel and Judas will be there Romans 14 12 says then each of us will give an account of himself to god second corinthians 5 10 says for all we must appear before the judgment seat of christ so that each one can receive the things done in his body according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad, you know, sometimes people will ask well what is the point of judgment if people have already been in paradise or in torment, it seems like they have already been judged, but you see, the day of judgment is not a day in which god has to make a decision, it's not like god has to weigh the facts and figures and and finds out who is saved and who is lost, he knows that the very moment you die, in fact, he knows before After you die, where will you be forever?

Judgment Day is not a test as we might think, in fact you could call it. the pronouncement of the day of judgment is the day of judgment is the day when god declares the reasons why you were lost or saved and then pronounces your sentence or eternal reward now someone says but you know it seems quite unnecessary since the righteous and The wicked already know where they will spend their eternities, it seems unnecessary to me, friends, let me suggest that the day of judgment is necessary for several reasons, number one, those who are still alive have not assigned punishment or blessedness and that is why it is necessary for them, number two, justice must be shown now listen to me the last time the world saw christ he was dying like a criminal remember he was only seen by his followers after his resurrection but on the day of judgment every eye will see him as righteous judge number three on the day of judgment It is necessary because it will be an exhibition day.

The reasons why a man is lost will be explained. The reasons why a man is saved will be announced. The number four is the day when death is finally defeated. You know, for years I wondered about it. The meaning of 1 Corinthians 15 26 says that the last enemy that will be destroyed is death and I thought to myself, you know? Didn't Christ already defeat death? Didn't He do it in His resurrection? So I was puzzled by this, but listen to the context verse number 24 then comes the end when he hands the kingdom over to God the father when he puts an end to all dominion and all authority and power because he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet the last enemy that will be destroyed is death now friends, this is talking about the day when the tombs will be emptied and the hadean world will come to an end it is this day the day of judgment is also very necessary now the next part of the painting we are going to talk about is about eternity in matthew 25 46 the lord said and these will go to eternal punishment but the righteous to eternal life you know that man has been created in the image of god and therefore he has been given an eternal soul and that soul will never cease to exist exists now the Greek word that is translated as eternal means eternal eternal endless will never cease indeterminate as to duration now you will see in the graph there are two alternatives as to where we will spend eternity one is a place of eternal bliss that is the destiny of the faithful is heaven and to them the king will say on the day of judgment come blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world matthew 25 46 he calls this place eternal life now the other destiny is a place of eternal torment is hell is described in Revelation 21 8 as the lake that burns with fire and sulfur which is the second death is the place that the Lord has in mind in the judgment scene in Matthew 25 where he says to sinners and these will go to eternal punishment.

How long will the punishment last in hell? Will the punishment in hell be temporary or will people simply burn up and cease to exist? No, the Bible says it will last forever, so it will be eternal revelation 14 11 he says and the smoke of his torment rises forever and ever and they have no rest day or night friends I can't imagine anything more terrifying than that you know the man who dies and goes to hell has tomorrow and the next day and the next year and the next 100 years and in a million years he will continue to suffer and burn and continue to exist with each passing day, he is no closer to the end, now You know that we are speaking quite accommodatingly because there is no time in eternity, the soul of man will simply suffer forever.

The soul of man enters the physical body at the moment of conception and upon death goes to hades where it remains as a spirit until the day of death. resurrection that day the new incorruptible body is reunited with the body and then that soul and the new body will spend eternity in heaven or hell. Now we have been discussing the future of our souls, but let's take the discussion to where you and I live if you go back to the beginning. In the chart, you will notice that on earth there are two categories: the saved and the lost, and everyone on earth fits into one of these two categories.

You will also notice that the saved and the lost travel different paths. Observe that for the righteous the path that represents death is very narrow now that is because Matthew 7 14 says straight is the door and narrow is the path that leads to life and few are those who find it. They also notice that for the lost, their path to death is wide and that is because Matthew 7 13 says wide is the gate and spacious is the path that leads to destruction and there are many who enter through it and perhaps the most important thing to note is that after death death the saved and the lost end up different The places and friends you go to when you die depend on where you go while you're alive.

Every person living today is on one of two paths: either it is the narrow path that leads to heaven or it is the wide path that leads to heaven. Hell, if you died today, what does eternity have in store for you if you die in the next few moments? Where would you be when you opened your eyes? What would you see in a few seconds? What would you see? Would they be angels that would take you to paradise? lift up your eyes being tormented