Rabu, 04 Maret 2009

State of the dead

Many people wondering what happen after someone is dead ? Do they still can see what the living do ? Do we still can communicate with them ?

If you go to the medium, then they can help you meet with the love ones that already passed away. When my aunt died, my cousin was offered to see a medium who can help him to meet his mother. They even said that my cousin could talk with his mother and would know the condition of her after death. But is it true that we can communicate with the dead ?

If we return to the Bible to get the answer then we can read in Psalm 146:4 When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end. This verse says that when someone dies he or she will return to dust and their life will also ends directly. More over in Ecclesiates 9:5,6 it is said that the living know they are going to die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward; they are completely forgotten. Their loves, their hates, their passions, all died with them. They will never again take part in anything that happens in this world. So the Bible clearly states that after someone dies, he or she will know nothing about their husband or wife or children or family or friends, etc. They won't know anything if their love ones that they left are happy or sad or get unluck.

Why the Bible says that someone who dies will return to dust ? To know the answer, we have to return again to the Bible. First let us read Genesis 2:7 when God created the human being for the first time "Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live". So, now we know that man is made from "soil + life giving breath from God". So what happen if God takes back the life giving breath from a man ? that's right, he or she will die and return to soil where they come from. For this you can also read in Job 34:14,15 If God took back the breath of life, then everyone living would die and turn into dust again.

Jesus in John 11:11-14 said "Jesus said this and then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I will go and wake him up." The disciples answered, "If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well." Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought he meant natural sleep. So Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead." These verses clearly say that the condition of the dead is only sleeping. We all know that if we are sleeping then we won't know anything that happened around us. So, if the dead is only sleeping and know nothing about his or her surrounding, then who did the disguise and pretend to be our love ones that already passed away ? Again for the answer, let us back to our Bible and read in 2 Corinthians 11:14,15 it says Well, no wonder ! Even satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light ! So it is no great thing if his servants disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In the end they will get exactly what their actions deserve. So these verses clearly say that for satan it is easy to disguise himself as anyone that he wants even as an angel of light, it is easy for him to disguise himself as our mother or father or sister or brother or friends or anyone that is already passed away.

My dear friends, now we know exactly what happened with the dead. They are only sleeping ! they can not annoy us or communicate with us anymore. They are just sleeping and waiting for the day when God will wake them up, just like as written in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first.

God bless us all !

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