1. Where Are The Dead?

2. Introduction
Reincarnation
Ghosts
Purgatory
Cease To Exist
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3. Journey of Human Soul
“Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7

4. Journey of Human Soul
“Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?”
Hebrews 12:9

5. Introduction Mother and Father God
Physical body
God
Spiritual soul
Dwells inside the physical body until death

6. Journey of Human Soul
“Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…”
Genesis 1:26

7. Journey of Human Soul
“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
2 Corinthians 5:1

8. Journey of Human Soul
“So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory.”
1 Corinthians 15:54

9. Journey of Human Soul
“So he answered and said," You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27

10. Journey of Human Soul
“While the sun and the light, the moon and the stars, are not darkened, and the clouds do not return after the rain.”
Ecclesiastes 12:2

11. Journey of Human Soul
“In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow down; When the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look through the windows grow dim.”
Ecclesiastes 12:3

12. Journey of Human Soul
“When the doors are shut in the streets, and the sound of grinding is low; When one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of music are brought low.”
Ecclesiastes 12:4

13. Journey of Human Soul
“Also they are afraid of height, and of terrors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails. For man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets.”
Ecclesiastes 12:5

14. Physical Body—Grows Old
Eyesight
Hands
Legs
Teeth
Sleep
Hearing
Afraid of heights
Hair gray
Corruptible body—Dies
Decays
Weakens

15. Journey of Human Soul
“The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
Psalm 90:10

16. Journey of Human Soul
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
James 2:26

19. Hades The dwelling place of the dead Disembodied spirits Waiting place
Realm of the unseen
HADES
SHEOL (Jewish)
GEHENNA

20. Journey of Human Soul
“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”
Matthew 16:18

21. Journey of Human Soul
“He, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.”
Acts 2:31

22. Journey of Human Soul
“And Jesus said to him, Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Luke 23:43

24. Rich Man & Lazarus Luke 16:19-26 Two different routes Memory
“Abraham’s bosom”
Carried by the angels
“Torments”
Comforted

25. After Death…
“For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.”
Ecclesiastes 9:5

26. After Death…
“Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun.”
Ecclesiastes 9:6

27. After Death…
“Surely I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants...”
2 Chronicles 34:28

28. “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the
After Death…
“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the
death of His saints.”
Psalm 116:15

29. Resurrection Day
“Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection
of life, and those who have
done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.”
John 5:28,29

30. Resurrection Day
“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.”
1 Corinthians 15:50

31. Resurrection Day
“So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.”
1 Corinthians 15:42

32. Resurrection Day
“It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.”
1 Corinthians 15:43,44

33. Hades Destroyed New Body New Habitation Old Body New Body Old Worn out
Weak
Corruptible
New Body
Beautiful
Joy
Power
Strong
Incorruptible
Spiritual
New Body
New Habitation

34. Why Is Judgment Necessary?
Those living not assigned
Righteousness on display
Exposure—the why of the verdicts
Death forever defeated
Eternity’s sentence handed down by the Judge

35. Judgment
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”
2 Corinthians 5:10

36. Everlasting
“And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
Revelation 14:11

37. Everlasting
“But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Revelation 21:8

38. Everlasting
“And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 25:46

39. Where Would You Wake Up?