What will happen after you die? Are you worried about dying? Are you spiritually prepared for dying?
God gives us life and we are accountable for what we have done between birth and death.
The clock of life is wound but once, no one has the power to tell when the hand will stop. Now is the time you own, live, love, toil with a will. Place no thought on tomorrow for the hand may then be still.”
Everyone would want to live forever, but the breath of life is given to man for a limited time. Psalm 90:10 says “The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years….. it is soon cut off, and we fly away” Therefore we are aware that man was not placed on earth to live forever. As a result we are encouraged to seek the Lord while the blood is running warm in our veins. All of us have an appointment with death: Hebrews 10:27 says, “And it is appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgement.
What happens when one dies?
The Bible says; when one dies his thoughts perish. “His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (Psalms 146: 4). Man did not become a living soul until God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life in Genesis 2:7. Therefore man returns to being a dead soul once the breath of life is removed from him. Ecclesiastes 9:56 says “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished, neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.”
No one will be able to accept the Lord as a Saviour after death as the Psalmist states in Psalm 6:5 “For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?” Psalm 115:7 clearly points out that the dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down in silence. However, a chance remains for those persons who did not know or hear about Jesus before they died. Such persons will be given the opportunity to choose or reject Him during the one thousand years reign of Christ.
In John 11:25 Jesus said: “I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Here one is promised life after death. How can one receive this?
Proverbs 14:32 says “The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.” Jesus told His disciples that if a man keeps His sayings, he shall never see death. The sleep of death will end for the Saints when Jesus returns and just as how Jesus rose from the dead, Saints will also rise to be like Him. Psalm 49:15 tells us that God will redeem our soul from the power of the grave: for He shall receive us.
Are you a Child of God? If you are, even after dying you have a special privilege as we are told that the dead in Christ will rise first (1st Thessalonians 4:16). There is the promise that the hour is coming when all that are in the grave shall hear the voice of our Saviour. We will come forth and those who have done good unto the resurrection of life and those who did evil to the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28-29). It is good to live a life for God and receive the resurrection of life, a wonderful promise given to the Saints. This reward will only be to those who keep the Commandments of God and the Testimony of Jesus.
It is commonly believed that a person who dies goes to heaven but the Bible declares that “No man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven…” John 3:13. When one dies that person remains in the grave in an unconscious state until the day of judgement or until Jesus comes to collect the Saints. Read Revelation 20.
You are not without hope my friend, believe now on Jesus. Live in obedience to the will of God and when Jesus returns you too will be ransomed from the power of the grave. With Christ one can live again!! Think about the glory that awaits the Saints.
Writer - A. E. FISHER
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