Few subjects are taught with more confusion than death and what comes after. Much of the popular picture comes more from tradition than from the text. This study goes back to the words Scripture uses, sheol, the grave, the resurrection, and the second death, and lets them speak. It is an honest study: we will note where the dead are said to sleep awaiting the resurrection, where the real hope is placed, and how the wicked finally meet judgment, and we will be fair about the passages believers read differently. Search it out like a Berean, and let the comfort of the resurrection settle deeper...
Few subjects are taught with more confusion than death and what comes after. Much of the popular picture comes more from tradition than from the text. This study goes back to the words Scripture uses, sheol, the grave, the resurrection, and the second death, and lets them speak. It is an honest study: we will note where the dead are said to sleep awaiting the resurrection, where the real hope is placed, and how the wicked finally meet judgment, and we will be fair about the passages believers read differently. Search it out like a Berean, and let the comfort of the resurrection settle deeper than the fear that tradition built.