What Happens After Death? | Biblical Truth Explained

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When happens when we die?

The scriptures explain it all . Your spirit leaves your body and you are in a spiritual form, you have a spiritual body and the spiritual body will be looking the same as the way you looked while in a physical body. The physical body is going to be changed into a spiritual body. Your heavenly spiritual body will still look like your physical body but the splendor of your heavenly body will be in a spiritual form .

Please note that the physical body will not be raised, as flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God . God and Jesus are Almighty Spirits , so will we also be in spiritual form. 1Co 15:50 and 1Jhn 3:2

1Co 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–

1Co 15:52 IN A FLASH, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMPET. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, AND WE WILL BE CHANGED.

1Th 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

1Co 15:50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, THAT FLESH AND BLOOD cannot inherit THE KINGDOM OF GOD, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

1Co 15:40 There are also HEAVENLY BODIES and there are EARTHLY BODIES; but THE SPLENDOR OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES IS ONE KIND, and THE SPLENDOR OF THE EARTHLY BODIES IS ANOTHER.

1Co 15:42 So will it be with THE RESURRECTION of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;

1Co 15:44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

1Co 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

1Co 15:46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.

1Co 15:47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.

1Co 15:48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

Where does your spirit go when you die . The spirit of the righteous Christian are going to the place called paradise in heaven where God and Jesus are and they will be waiting there for the day of judgement . The spirit of the unbeliever , the ungodly , those who did not believe in God of the Bible and who did not Believe in Jesus and haven’t receive Jesus as his/her Lord and Savior and those who continued to live a sinful life , they are going to a place called Hades. There they will be waiting for the day of judgment .

On judgement day the righteous Christians will go from paradise in heaven to the New Jerusalem in heaven and those who were waiting in Hades will go to the place called Hell , also called the pool of burning sulfur where Magog also called Satan the Devil will also have been thrown into.

With second coming of Jesus , your physical body will not go through the death experience , your spirit will just leave your body while you are still alive . People call it the rapture . This will happen with the second coming of Jesus and it will happen when the seventh angel sounded his trumpet as we read in the following scriptures .

1Jn 3:2 Dear friends, NOW WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that WHEN CHRIST APPEARS, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM, FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.

1Co 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but WE WILL ALL BE CHANGED–

1Co 15:52 IN A FLASH, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMPET. FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED IMPERISHABLE, AND WE WILL BE CHANGED.

1Co 15:53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

1Th 4:15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

Mat 24:31  And HE WILL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH A LOUD TRUMPET CALL, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Rev 10:7  BUT IN THE DAYS WHEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL IS ABOUT TO SOUND HIS TRUMPET, THE MYSTERY OF GOD WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”

Rev 11:14  THE SECOND WOE HAS PASSED; THE THIRD WOE IS COMING SOON.

The Seventh Trumpet

Rev 11:15  THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “THE KINGDOM OF THE WORLD HAS BECOME THE KINGDOM OF OUR LORD AND OF HIS MESSIAH, AND HE WILL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER.”

1Th 4:16 FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, WITH A LOUD COMMAND, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL AND WITH THE TRUMPET CALL OF GOD, and THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST.

1Th 4:17 After that, WE WHO ARE STILL ALIVE and are left WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. AND SO WE WILL BE WITH THE LORD FOREVER.

1Jn 3:2 DEAR FRIENDS, NOW WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, and what we will be has not yet been made known. BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN CHRIST APPEARS, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM, FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.

The Righteous Christians go to aparadise when they die and

Jesus will come and take the righteous the righteous Christians out of this world with his second coming

EACH PERSON WALKS IN THEIR OWN SHOES OF LOVE ALONG THEIR OWN PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

WHY do we need to understand the importance of RIGHTEOUSNESS ?

Mat 13:41  The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

Mat 13:42  They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mat 13:43  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

Mat 13:49  This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous

Mat 13:50  and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mat 25:34  “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

Mat 25:41  “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Mat 25:46  “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

New Jerusalem is in heaven and not on earth

Rev 3:12  The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.

Rev 21:2  I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

Hades

Mat 11:23  And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

Mat 16:18  And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

Luk 10:15  And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.

Luk 16:23  In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.

Rev 1:18  I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Rev 6:8  I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Rev 20:13  The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.

Rev 20:14  Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.

Hell , the pool of burning Sulfur wher the unbeliever will live forever as your spirit never dies

Rev 14:9  A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand,

Rev 14:10  they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

Rev 14:10  they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

Rev 19:20  But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Rev 20:10  And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Rev 21:8  But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”