Death and Resurrection:

The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that
day death is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is our life, appears, the resurrected righteous
and the living righteous will be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord. The second resurrection, the
resurrection of the unrighteous, will take place a thousand years later. (Rom_6:23; 1Ti_6:15-16; Ecc_9:5-6;
Psa_146:3-4; Joh_11:11-14; Col_3:4; 1Co_15:51-54; 1Th_4:13-17; Joh_5:28-29; Rev_20:1-10.)

To the Christian, death is but is sleep, a moment of silence and darkness.D.A. 787.

What Is Death?
Ps. 13:3. The psalmist calls death a sleep.
1 Thess. 4:15. The dead are asleep. D.A. 787.
Matt. 27:52. They sleep in their graves.
Acts 13:36. When David died he went to sleep.
1 Cor. 15:51. Paul calls death a sleep.
1 Thess. 4:14. The righteous dead sleep in Jesus.
1 Kings 11:43. More than twenty-five times the expression, Slept with his fathers, is used when recording
deaths of kings in the old Testament. We give one sample text.
John 11:11-14. Jesus calls death a sleep.
Heb. 9:27. One death is appointed unto men.
Gen 2:17; 3:22-24; Rom. 6:23. Death is the result of sin.
John 8:44. Satan is the father of sin.
Heb. 2:14. He has the power of death.
2 Tim. 1:10. Chirst abolished death. He changed death into a sleep.
1 Cor. 15:22. This included all the dead.
John 5:25-28. Christ has the power to awaken all from the sleep of death. D.A. 320.

Are The Dead Conscious?
Ps. 146:4. His breath goeth forth; . . . in that very day his thoughts perish.
Job 14:12, 21. No knowledge of what happens on earth after death. G.C. 549.
Isa. 38:10, 11. Do not see the Lord or men on the earth. G.C. 546.
Eccl. 9:5, 6. Do not know anything. D.A. 557, 558.
Ps. 115:17. Praise not the Lord.
Ps. 6:5. No remembrance of God.
Ps. 88:11, 12. Grave the land of forgetfulness.
Job 14:12. Remain in the grave till the heavens are no more.
Rev. 6:14-17. Heavens roll together when Christ returns to earth.
Job 19:23-27. Job knew he would wake at that time.
John 5:29. Two classes in the resurrection.
1 Thess. 4:16, 17. Righteous arise when Christ comes.
Rev. 20:5. Wicked raised 1000 years later.

How Are The Dead Raised Up?
1 Cor. 15:35. With what body do they come?
1 Cor. 15:36-38. The same individual will come from the grave that went into the grave as truly as wheat
comes from wheat sown in the earth.
1 Cor. 15:44. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
1 Cor. 15:20. Christ was the first-fruits, or sample. T., v. 9, p. 286.
1 Thess. 4:14. Those that sleep in Jesus will be brought forth as He was.
Luke 24:39-43. Christ arose with the same body that hung on the cross.
Luke 24:30, 35. Recognized by His manner of breaking bread.
John 20:15, 16. Mary knew her Lord by His voice.
John 20:3-8. John recognized Christ by his orderly habits.
John 20:26-28. Philip knew His by His personal appearance. As Jesus friends recognized Him, so we will
recognize our friends.
1 Cor. 15:51-54. Righteous dead raised immortal.
Phil 3:20, 21. Their bodies will be like Christs glorious body.
Matt. 17:1, 2. Their faces will shine as the sun, and raiment be white as the light.
Hos. 13:14. Christ has pledged to redeem them from death.
Job 14:15. He will call, the saints will answer.
Isa. 26:19. Christ will call, Awake and sing.
1 Cor. 15:54-57. The righteous spring forth with a song of victory. T., v. 2, p. 229.

Two Resurrections And The Second Death
John 5:28, 29. Two resurrections,one to life and the other to damnation. G.C. 544.
Rev. 20:5. One thousand years between the two.
Matt. 24:30, 31. When the righteous arise Christ gathers them.
Rev. 20:5-9. When the wicked arise Satan gathers them. C.O.L. 270.
Rev. 20:13. Gathered from land and sea.
Rev. 20:6; 2:11. Righteous never die the second death.
Rev. 20:14. Second death is the lake of fire.
Rev. 20:15; Rom. 6:23. All whose names are not in the book of life, suffer the second death.

Eternal Life, The Gift Of God
1 Tim. 6:15, 16. God only hath immortality.
John 5:26. God gave Christ immortality.
1 John 5:11, 12. Eternal life given man through Christ. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the
Son hath not life.
1 John 3:15. No wicked person hath eternal life.
2 Tim. 1:10. Christ brought life and immortality to light.
Job 4:17. Man is only mortal.
Rom 2:6, 7. We are admonished to seek for immortality, eternal life. If we possessed it, we would not need to
seek for it.
1 Cor. 15:51-54. It will be given the righteous at Christs second coming.

Life Only Through Christ, As Taught By The Cities Of Refuge
Num. 35:11-14. The six cities of refuge were a constant reminder that eternal life was a gift and not an inherent
human inheritance. P.P. 516.
Deut. 19:2, 3. The roads leading to the cities were to be kept in good repair that the one fleeing might not be
hindered. P.P. 515.
Num. 35:15. The refuge was free to all; even the stranger and sojourner might flee thither. P.P. 515.
Num. 35:16-25. The regulations regarding these cities taught that there were degrees of crime. It was possible
to go so far in sin that the sinner was delivered over to the avenger even at the gate of the city. P.P. 516.
Heb. 6:4-6; Matt. 12:31, 32. There is an unpardonable sin.
Heb. 12:16, 17. Illustrated in the case of Esau.
Joshua 20:4. Confession was made at the gate before the one fleeing was received.
1 John 1:9. The sinner must confess.
Num. 35:26-29. Inside the city was life; outside the city was death. P.P. 517.
Prov. 18:10; Ps. 91:2. Christ is a refuge. P.P. 516, 517.
1 John 5:11, 12; John 15:4-7. Our safety is to abide in Christ.
Num. 35:26-28. If one presumptuously went outside the city, his life could be taken.
Eze. 18:24-26. The one that turns from the refuge of Christ, dies the second death.
Joshua 20:6; Num. 35:25. There were two important events to which the dweller in the city looked forward,
the judgment and the death of the high priest. The judgment decided his destiny; the death of the high priest
restored him to freedom of the land. The decision in the judgment decides our eternal destiny; and when our
High Priest ceases to be high priest, our adversary, the devil, has no power totake our life, and we come into
possession of our eternal inheritance.