What Happens When We Die?

"Lazarus, our friend, has found REPOSE, but I am going that I should be awakening him out of SLEEP." The disciples, then, said to Him, "Lord, if he has repose, he shall be saved." Now Jesus had made a declaration concerning his DEATH, yet they suppose that He is saying it concerning the REPOSE OF SLEEP." Jesus, then, said to them with boldness then, "Lazarus DIED." (John 11:11-14)

When Lazarus died, he is said by Jesus to have gone to sleep - not to heaven.

"Now Jesus, again crying with a loud voice, lets out the spirit." And lo! the curtain of the temple is rent in two from above to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks are rent, and the tombs were opened. And many bodies of the REPOSING SAINTS were ROUSED, and, coming out of the tombs AFTER HIS ROUSING, they entered into the holy city and are disclosed to many." (Matthew 27:50-53)

Jesus died and was put to repose in the tomb - asleep as was Lazarus. After His body was awakened, MANY BODIES of those who had died and were reposing (sleeping) came out of the tombs.

"And, answering, Jesus said to them, "The sons of this eon are marrying and are taking out in marriage." Yet those deemed worthy to happen upon that eon and the resurrection from among the dead are neither marrying nor taking out in marriage. For neither can they still be dying, for they are equal to messengers, and are the sons of God, being sons of the resurrection." Now that the DEAD ARE ROUSING, even Moses divulges at the thorn bush, as he is terming the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." Now God is He, not of the dead, but of the living, for ALL, TO HIM, ARE LIVING." (Luke 20:34-38)

Although everyone who has died are asleep, resting in peace, to God they are living while sleeping because He intends to rouse them from their sleep sometime in the future.

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