DEATH IS A SLEEP…..
by Keith Hunt
RAISING OF A RULER'S DAUGHTER
"WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, THERE CAME FROM THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE'S HOUSE CERTAIN WHICH SAID, THY DAUGHTER IS DEAD WHY TROUBLE YOU THE MASTER ANY FURTHER? AS SOON AS JESUS HEARD THE WORD THAT WAS SPOKEN, HE SAID UNTO THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, BE NOT AFRAID, ONLY BELIEVE.
AND HE WOULD THAT NO MAN FOLLOW HNIM BUT PETER AND JAMES, AND JOHN THE BROTHER OF JAMES.
AND HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, AND HE SAW THE TUMULT, AND THEM THAT WEPT AND WAILED GREATLY. AND WHEN HE WAS COME IN HE SAID TO THEM, WHY DO YOU MAKE THIS ADO, AND WEEP? THE DAMSEL IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPS.
AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN.
BUT WHEN HE HAD PUT THEM ALL OUT, HE TOOK THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER OF THE DAMSEL, AND THEM THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND ENTERED IN WHERE THE DAMSEL WAS LAYING. AND HE TOOK THE DAMSEL BY THE HAND, AND SAID UNTO HER, TALITHA CUMI; WHICH IS, BEING INTERPRETED, DAMSEL, I SAY UNTO YOU, ARISE.
AND STRAIGHTAWAY THE DAMSEL ROSE UP, AND WALKED; FOR SHE WAS OF THE AGE OF 12 YEARS.
AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED WITH A GREAT ASTONISHMENT" (MARK 5:35-42).
ARE WE TO ASSUME ALL THOSE PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW WHAT DEATH WAS? ARE WE TO ASSUME NONE FELT HER PULSE? ARE WE TO ASSUME NONE TRIED TO SEE AND FEEL THAT SHE WAS BREATHING?
I THINK NOT. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN PEOPLE THERE WHO KNEW THE DAMSEL WAS INDEED DEAD.
PEOPLE CAN KNOW WHEN DEATH IS DEATH, THEY FEEL NO PULSE, THEY SEE AND FEEL THERE IS NO BREATHING, THEY SEE THE PERSON IS GETTING COLDER AND COLDER IN DEATH.
WHAT JESUS WAS CLEARLY TEACHING HERE IS THAT DEATH IS A SLEEP, AND HE IS THE RESURRECTION - EXACTLY WHAT HE TAUGHT IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 11.
JESUS - GOD - JESUS GOD IN THE FLESH, HAD THE POWER TO RAISE THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE!
DEATH IS A SLEEP WHERE EVEN THE MIND DOES NOT DREAM - DEATH IS QUIETNESS - DEATH IS BLACKNESS.
I HAD A MINOR SURGERY A FEW DECADES AGO. I WAS INJECTED WITH SOMETHING THAT....ONE SECOND I WAS TALKING TO THE MAN INJECTING ME, THE NEXT SECOND I WAS IN THE BLACKNESS AND QUIETNESS OF A SLEEP THAT WAS TO ME - DEATH. BUT OF COURSE THE PEOPLE IN THE OPERATING ROOM COULD KNOW I WAS BREATHING AND I HAD A PULSE. I KNEW NOTHING UNTIL A NURSE WAS WAKING ME UP.
THE PEOPLE AROUND THIS DAMSEL CERTAINLY KNEW DEATH WHEN THEY SAW IT, EXPERIENCED IT. THE DAMSEL WAS DEAD!
JESUS WAS TEACHING THAT DEATH WAS A SLEEP; HE HAD THE POWER TO RAISE THE SLEEPING DEAD BACK TO LIFE, AS HE DID WITH LAZARUS IN JOHN 11.
ON THIS WEBSITE THERE IS A FULL STUDY CALLED "DEATH - THEN WHAT?"
YOU NEED TO STUDY THAT STUDY AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THE WORD OF THE LORD TEACHES ABOUT DEATH.
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John 11
New King James Version
The Death of Lazarus
11 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. 7 Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
8 The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going there again?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”
12 Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.” 13 However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.”
16 Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
I Am the Resurrection and the Life
17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about [a]two miles away. 19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house. 21 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Greek hear for "shall never die" is "shall not die forever."
27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
Jesus and Death, the Last Enemy
28 And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, “The Teacher has come and is calling for you.” 29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but [b]was in the place where Martha met Him. 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, [c]saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
SHORTEST VERSE IN THE BIBLE== JESUS WEEPT!
37 And some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?”
Lazarus Raised from the Dead
38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Then they took away the stone [d]from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
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WE HEAR NOTHING FROM LAZARUS SAYING "WHY DID YOU CALL ME BACK I WAS ENJOYING HEAVEN, WITH THE SAINTS OF OLD, THE ANGELS, AND GOD THE FATHER."
WE HEAR NO DISCIPLE ASKING LAZARUS, "HOW IS HEAVEN?"
WE HEAR NO DISCIPLES OF THE FIRST CENTURY TELLING HOW LAZARUS SAW HEAVEN, AND ALL IN IT.
LAZARUS SPOKE NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THE SIGHTS OF HEAVEN.
ALL TRUE SAINTS OF GOD HAVE KNOWN FROM THE BEGINNING NO SAINT HAS GONE TO HEAVEN. NO SAINT HAS DIED, GONE TO HEAVEN AND RETURNED.
ALL SAINTS FROM THE BEGINNING HAVE KNOWN DEATH IS A SLEEP, WHERE YOU ARE NOT AWAKE, DO NOT TALK, DO NOT WALK ABOUT, DO NOT DO THINGS WITH OTHER SAINTS, DO NOT SEE THE ANGELS, DO NOT SEE GOD THE FATHER, OR CHRIST AT HIS RIGHT HAND.
DEATH IS AS JESUS SAID— A SLEEP!
DO YOU BELIEVE JESUS?
SEEMS BILLIONS DO NOT!
I HAVE MANY STUDIES PROVING WHAT DEATH IS!
I ANSWER ALL THE ARGUMENTS, YES ALL OF THEM,
THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO SAY SAINTS GO TO HEAVEN AT DEATH.
JESUS SAID HE CAME FROM ETERNITY PAST IN HEAVEN TO THIS EARTH, GOD IN THE FLESH; AND SAID NO ONE, NOT ONE PERSON HAD COME FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN— JOHN 3:13.
DO YOU BELIEVE JESUS?
BILLIONS DO NOT!
IT TAKES A RESURRECTION TO AWAKE PEOPLE TO LIFE ETERNAL. THE FIRST APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES PREACHED A RESURRECTION TO LIFE ETERNAL— A RESURRECTION— A RESURRECTION….AND A RESURRECTION!
HOW ABOUT YOU?
Keith Hunt
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