1. Death Death To a child - death has much mystery about it
As we learn more – much that is still unknown
We wonder
What is it like to die?
What do we know after we die?
Do we recognize one another after death?
What happens to the soul immediately?
Etc….

2. What Happens After Death?
What Do We Know
About
What Happens After Death?

3. What Happens After Death?
What Do We Know About
What Happens After Death?
There is Life After Death

4. There is Life After Death
Matt. 22:32
1. God is not the God of the dead - but living.
2. God is the God of Abraham, Issac & Jacob
3. Therefore: Abraham, Issac & Jacob - are living!
Matt. 17:3 – Moses & Elijah
Heb. 9:27 – After death = judgment
Luke 16:19-ff – Rich man & Lazarus

5. What Happens After Death?
What Do We Know About
What Happens After Death?
There is Life After Death
Where the Dead Go

6. Where the Dead Go
Death = separation

7. Ecc. 12:7
“Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.”
Jas. 2:26
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

8. D E A T H Hades (Back to God) In the Grave (Return to Dust) Spirit
Body
&
Spirit
Body
In the Grave
(Return to Dust)

9. Where the Dead Go
Death = separation
Term “Hell”

10. “Hell” Sheol: (Heb) - “Unseen state” - Psa. 139:8
Hades: (Grk) - “realm of the dead”
Translated: “Hell” & “Hades”
(Acts 2:27, 31; Lk. 16:23; Mt. 16:18)
Tartarus (Grk) - “abode of the wicked dead”
(2 Pet. 2:4)
Gehenna: (Grk) - “where the wicked after
death suffer punishment” - Mk. 9:43

11. Where the Dead Go
Death = separation
Term “Hell”
Realm of the dead

12. Hades
“...properly, unseen, i.e. "Hades" or the place (state) of departed souls:--grave, hell” (Strong’s).

13. “…the region of departed spirits of the
lost (but including the blessed dead in
periods preceding the Ascension of Christ). Is has been thought by some that the word etymologically meant the unseen (from a, negative, and eido, to see), but this derivation is questionable; a more probable derivation is from hado, signifying all-receiving…
“It never denotes the grave, nor is it the permanent region of the lost; in point of time it is, for such, intermediate between decease and the doom of Gehenna” (W. E. Vine).

14. J Hades U D D E G A M E T N H T Great Gulf R E S U ParadiseC T I O N J U D G M E N T D E A T H
Hades
Paradise
Jesus, Thief, Lazarus
Luke 23:43; 16:22
Acts 2:27, 31; Matt. 16:18
Great Gulf
Tartarus
Rich Man, Angels
Luke 16:23; 2 Pet. 2:4-9
Jude 6; Luke 10:15

15. Jesus Acts 2:27, 31 Luke 24:43 Not Here John 20:17
Hades (Paradise) Is Not Heaven
Hades - Paradise
Jesus
Acts 2:27, 31
Luke 24:43
Heaven
Not Here
John 20:17

16. J Hades U D D E G A M E T N H T Great Gulf R E S U ParadiseC T I O N J U D G M E N T D E A T H
Hades
Paradise
Go to heaven
Jesus, Thief, Lazarus
Luke 23:43; 16:22
Acts 2:27, 31; Matt. 16:18
Great Gulf
Tartarus
Go to hell
Rich Man, Angels
Luke 16:23; 2 Pet. 2:4-9
Jude 6; Luke 10:15

17. What Happens After Death?
What Do We Know About
What Happens After Death?
There is Life After Death
Where the Dead Go
Awareness & Knowledge After Death

18. Awareness & Knowledge After Death
Luke 16:19-31
Real story or only a parable?
What difference does it make?
Not called a parable
If were a parable – still teaches the same
Some of the elements of story are real:
Abraham (v. 23)
Moses & prophets [Law] (v. 29)
If these are real – why not the rest?

19. Awareness & Knowledge After Death
Luke 16:19-31
Real story or only a parable?
Is awareness & knowledge after death
V. 23 – torments (knows were is) – saw
V. 24 – recognized & talked to Abraham
V. 25 – Abraham responded – appealed to memory
Vv – aware family still living
V. 30 – knows he is dead
V. 31 – able to be reasoned with

20. What Happens After Death?
What Do We Know About
What Happens After Death?
There is Life After Death
Where the Dead Go
Awareness & Knowledge After Death
Can’t Know Eternal Destiny of All

21. Can’t Know Eternal Destiny of All
Can know we have eternal life (1 John 5:13)
Can have hope for others we know are faithful (1 Thess. 4:13-18)
Can know those that do not obey will be lost (2 Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 21:8; Gal. 5:19-21)
God’s word is plain – yet…
Say, “in a better place now” –
Say, “R.I.P.”

22. Can’t Know Eternal Destiny of All
Can know we have eternal life (1 John 5:13)
Can have hope for others we know are faithful (1 Thess. 4:13-18)
Can know those that do not obey will be lost (2 Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 21:8; Gal. 5:19-21)
We can’t know all that God knows
God knows the secrets (Rom. 2:16)
God knows all one has done (2 Cor. 5:10)

23. BE CAREFUL “I know they are in heaven.”
“If any one will go to heaven, she will.”
“My loved one is in a better place now.”
R.I.P (Rest in Peace)
“Don’t whittle on God’s end of the stick.”

24. What Happens After Death?
What Do We Know About
What Happens After Death?
There is Life After Death
Where the Dead Go
Awareness & Knowledge After Death
Can’t Know Eternal Destiny of All