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The Dead Know They are Dead
Job 27:19 The rich man will lie down, But not be gathered up; He opens his eyes, And he is no more.
The Dead Can Be “Brought Up” and Communicated With, But Against God’s Commands
I Samuel 28:15 Now Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up (calling me up from death)?” And Saul answered, “I am deeply distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me and does not answer me anymore, neither by prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may reveal to me what I should do.”
There is Activity in Death
Isaiah 14:9 (1 of 2), Isaiah 14:9 (2 of 2) “Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations.
The Dead Has Raised The Dead
II Kings 13:21 So it was, as they were burying a man, that suddenly they spied a band of raiders; and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha; and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.
There are Two Deaths: Physical Death and Spiritual Death
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
A Dead Man Raised Himself From the Grave
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Revelation 1:18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
The man who raised Himself from the grave is the man who created Himself: Colossians 1:16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
There is a Death that Never Dies
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Revelation 20:15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
There is a Death that Never Lives
Matthew 8:21 Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the (spiritually) dead bury their own (physically) dead.”
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