WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DEATH?

THERE ARE MANY BELIEFS IN RELATION TO WHAT HAPPENS AFTER

DEATH.

PEOPLE’S BELIEF ON DEATH

SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT WHEN A PERSONDIES, THEY GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN AND THEYARE GREETING EVERYONE.

SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THEY DIE ANDCOME BACK TO LIFE IN THE FORM OFSOMETHING OR SOMEONE ELSE.

SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO HOPEBEYOND THE GRAVE. WHEN YOU DIE – THAT’S IT.

IS THERE HOPE BEYOND THE GRAVE?

YOU DECIDE!

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT AS A MAN LIVES , SOSHALL HE DIE. IF YOU LIVE A LIFE ON EARTH BYBEING DISOBEDIENT TO GOD, THEN YOUWOULD DIE A HOPELESS DEATH. IF YOU DIED INOBEDIENCE TO CHRIST, THEN YOU WOULD BESAVED.

Galatians 6:7 (King James Version)

7Be not deceived; God is not mocked:For whatsoever a man soweth, thatshall he also reap.

Revelation 22:12

BEHOLD, I AM COMING SOON! MY REWARD IS WITH ME, ANDI WILL GIVE TO EVERYONE ACCORDING TO WHAT HE HAS DONE.

WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN’S BELIEFS ON DEATH?

CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN A BETTER LIFE AFTERDEATH. THEY EMBRACE DEATH AS ATEMPORARY SLEEP UNTIL CHRIST COMES. FORCHRISTIANS, THERE IS HOPE BEYOND THEGRAVE.

EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DEATH?

IS MY LOVE ONE REALLY IN HEAVEN LOOKINGDOWN? IS HE/SHE WAITING FOR HEAVEN IN BETWEENSOMEWHERE TO BE CLEANSE FROM SINS INPREPARATION FOR THE NEXT STAGE-- HEAVEN?IS THERE A HEAVEN TO WIN AND A HELL TOSHUN?

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE HAS TO SAY ABOUT DEATH & HEAVEN?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES?

ECCLESIATES 12:7

THEN SHALL THE DUST RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS: AND THE

SPIRIT SHALL RETURN UNTO GOD WHO GAVE IT.

WOULD MY LOVE ONE RECOGNIZE ME IN DEATH. DO

THEY COME BACK TO WARN ME?

NO.

ECCLESIATES 9:5

FOR THE LIVING KNOW THAT THEY SHALL

DIE: BUT THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANY THING,

NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE A REWARD;

FOR THE MEMORY OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN.

ECCLESIATES 9:6

ALSO THEIR LOVE, AND THEIR HATRED, AND THEIR ENVY, IS NOW PERISHED; NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE A PORTION FOR EVER IN ANY THING THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN.

ECCLESIATES 9:10

WHATSOEVER THY HAND FINDETH TO DO, DO IT

WITH THY MIGHT; FOR THERE IS NO WORK, NOR

DEVICE, NOR KNOWLEDGE, NOR WISDOM, IN THE

GRAVE, WHITHER SO EVER THOU GOEST

DOES MY LOVE ONE GOES STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN WHEN

THEY DIE?

NO.

John 5:28

28"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

John 5:29

AND COME OUT – THOSE WHO HAVE

DONE GOOD WILL RISE TO LIVE, AND

THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL WILL

RISE TO BE CONDEMNED.

HEAVEN

IS HEAVEN LITERALLY GOING TO BE A PLACE?

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT?

2 Peter 3:13 (New International Version)

BUT IN KEEPING WITH HIS PROMISE, WE

ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO A NEW

HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, THE HOME OF

RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Isaiah 65:17

BEHOLD, I WILL CREATE NEW HEAVENSAND A NEW EARTH. THE FORMERTHINGS WILL NOT BE REMEMBERED,NOR WILL THEY COME TO MIND.

Isaiah 25:6

And in this mountain The LORD of hostsWill make for all people A feast of choicepieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fatthings full of marrow, Of well-refined wineson the lees.

John 14: 2

In My Father’s house are manymansions;[a] if it were not so, Iwould have told you. I go toprepare a place for you.[b]

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf also shall dwell with thelamb, The leopard shall lie down withthe young goat, The calf and the younglion and the fatling together; And alittle child shall lead them.

HOW WILL CHRIST RETURN THE SECOND TIME?

?

1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17

For the Lord Himself will descendfrom heaven with a shout, with thevoice of an archangel, and with thetrumpet of God. And the dead inChrist will rise first.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in amoment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the lasttrumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and thedead will be raised incorruptible, and we shallbe changed. 53 For this corruptible must put onincorruption, and this mortal must put onimmortality.

Luke 20:35, 36

But those who are counted worthy to attainThat age, and the resurrection from the dead,Neither marry nor are given in marriage; norcan they die anymore, for they are equal to theAngels and are sons of God, being sons of theresurrection.

Revelation 21:4

And God will wipe away every tear fromTheir eyes; there shall be no more death,nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be nomore pain, for the former things havepassed away.”

THE CHRISTIAN HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST.

WE CAN STAND ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.