There He preached to the OT saints waiting in Abraham's Bosom. Abraham's Bosom and Hades existed side-by-side in Sheol until the time of Jesus' appearing in the first century.Īfter Christ's crucifixion, He descended into the earth following His death.
Sheol also held a side of torment called Hades, from which we get the word Hell. Abraham's Bosom was the "good" side of a place called Sheol in the Old Testament. God held the souls of saints in a place of comfort, euphemistically called Abraham's Bosom, where they were waiting until Christ's appearing. Therefore, God made a special provision for these Old Testament saints in the time before Christ. Because of their faith they were not due to receive a penalty for their sin, but because Christ had not yet died for them, they had not yet been cleansed from sin. Though these saints were saved by their faith, the sacrifice to cleanse their sin had not yet been made by Christ. Prior to Christ's death and resurrection, the souls of Old Testament saints could not go directly to heaven at the moment of death, since the atonement of Christ had yet to be made on the cross. Prior to Jesus' death and resurrection, the process for a saint operated differently. A story told by Jesus in Luke 16 give us the definitive Biblical account of life after death prior to the resurrection of the Messiah. 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.Īfter our physical body dies, Paul says we appear before the judgment seat of the Lord in spirit form to receive our rewards for service to the Lord. Paul goes on in 2Corinthians to tell us more about that moment: 2Cor. Our spirit occupies our body for a time, but when our body dies, our spirit moves to our next home to be present with the Lord (if we are a believer) into the throne room of God. Our physical body is the material, temporary part of our existence, so Paul says it is only a temporary home for our spirit, which is the eternal part of us. 5:9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.ĢCor. 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight -ĢCor. 5:6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord -ĢCor. 5:5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.ĢCor. 5:4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.ĢCor.
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Therefore, after a person's body dies, the person's spirit will exist somewhere in full consciousness yet without a body until a future day of resurrection, when God gives each spirit a new, permanent body.Īt the point of death, a person's spirit will experience different outcomes depending on whether the person was a saint (i.e., a believer) and depending on when they lived in history.įor the Christian who dies today, his or her spirit moves directly from the body at the moment of death into Christ's presence in the Heavenly throne room escorted by angels, according to Jesus in Luke 16.
Our spirit is never "asleep" (as some teach incorrectly) and it was designed to exist within a physical body. The spirit/soul exists forever and is always conscious. While the human body is temporary and eventually dies and disintegrates, the human spirit ( also called the soul) is eternal. (To learn more about this principle, please listen to our Genesis study.) As the earth goes, so goes our physical body. The material God used to construct the human body came "from the ground," according to Genesis 2, therefore, the curse on the earth also condemned the human body to die, since the body is part of the earth. The human body grows old and dies because of the curse God pronounced on the earth following Adam's sin in Genesis 3. The experience of death differs depending on whether a person is a saint (i.e., saved by faith in the Lord) or an unbeliever, and when in history a person lived.įor all humanity, the Bible teaches that when a person's body dies, the body returns to dust.
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