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5 Death
5 Death
The Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the _______________ return to the earth
as it was: and the _______________ shall return unto God who gave it.
Fill in the blanks after reading each Bible text.
NOTE: What takes place at death is the opposite from what happened during
1. Was the form that Saul saw actually Samuel the prophet? Creation. The body returns to dust and the spirit, or breath, returns to God
who gave it. The Bible clearly teaches that the “spirit” that returns to God is
1 Kings 22:22 And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a simply the breath of life, which God breathed into man in the beginning (James
_______________ _______________ in the mouth of all his prophets. 2:26, margin; Job 27:3, margin; Job 33:4). Psalm 104:29, 30 states: “Thou
takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth
Revelation 16:14 For they are the _______________ of
The Witch of Endor _______________, working miracles.
thy spirit [breath], they are created.”
Story . . .
1 Samuel 28:3-25 2. Do the dead come back to converse with or to haunt 6. Where do the dead go when they die?
The the living?
Job 14:21 His sons come to honour, and he _______________ it
Job 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the _______________, and shall
remain in the tomb.
_______________; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not John 5:28, 29 All that are _______________ the _______________
ing Saul was at his wit’s end and trembling with
of them. shall hear his voice, And shall come forth.
fear. The entire Philistine army had gathered to attack Israel’s Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 The dead _______________ _______________
smaller and weaker troops. Saul moaned, “If only Samuel were any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is NOTE: The dead, both righteous and unrighteous, are in their graves and will
here, he would tell me what to do.” But the great prophet of hear Jesus’ voice calling them forth from the grave to reward or punishment.
forgotten. Also their _______________, and their _______________, and
Israel had died a few years earlier. their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in
The aged monarch tried desperately to find some advice or 7. The Bible makes it plain that King David is saved. Is he
any thing that is done under the sun [in this life]. ... For there is no work, nor
guidance from other prophets or priests, but the Lord would not in heaven now?
device, nor _______________, nor wisdom, in the grave.
speak to him. As a young man, Saul had been close to God. Acts 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the
But after ascending the throne, he became NOTE: No! The Bible is clear. A dead person does nothing and knows nothing patriarch David, that he is both _______________ and
cruel and rebelled against God’s Word. about what is happening on earth. _______________, and his sepulchre [tomb] is with us unto this day.
Once he even had a whole village of Psalm 115:17 The dead praise not the Lord.
priests murdered. King Saul had per- Psalm 6:5 In death there is no remembrance of thee. Acts 2:34 For David is _______________ _______________ into
sistently refused to listen to the Lord, and Job 7:10 He shall return no more to his house. the heavens.
now in his distress, God would not Isaiah 38:18 Death can not celebrate thee.
answer him. Psalm 146:4 His thoughts perish. NOTE: No! The apostle Peter plainly stated that David is dead and buried—
“Then said Saul unto his servants, not alive in heaven. Furthermore, Hebrews 11:32-40 makes it clear that all the
Seek me a woman that hath a familiar 3. According to the book of Revelation, who has the keys faithful of the ages have not yet been rewarded, but rather, will all be rewarded
together (verses 39, 40).
spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of death?
of her.” 1 Samuel 28:7. God had clearly
Revelation 1:18 I am _______________ that _______________, and 8. But isn’t it true that the soul is immortal and that only
commanded His people never to consult
was _______________; and, behold, I am alive for evermore ...; and have the body dies?
a witch or medium (Leviticus 19:31;
20:27), but Saul now had little regard the keys of hell and of death.
Ezekiel 18:4 The _______________ that sinneth, it shall
for God’s implicit instruction. _______________.
NOTE: The Bible is clear. Only Jesus has the keys of death. We should go to His
Upon finding a woman in Endor Word for answers to our questions about death.
who claimed to consult with the dead, Job 4:17 Shall _______________ man be more just than God?
the king disguised himself and went to 1 Timothy 6:15, 16 The King of kings, and _______________ of
see her. He said to the medium, “Bring me up Samuel.” The
4. How did God make man in the beginning?
lords; Who _______________ hath immortality.
witch went through her spells and enchantments until an Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the _______________
apparition claiming to be Samuel the prophet appeared and of the ground, and _______________ into his nostrils the breath of NOTE: We are souls, and souls do die. Man is mortal. Only God is immortal.
gave the king an utterly hopeless message. It predicted that Saul _______________; and man became a living soul. The widely believed teaching of the undying, immortal soul is not found in the
and his three sons would die in battle the next day. Bible. The teaching is man-made.
The following day Saul’s sons were slain by the Philistines, NOTE: Two things happened at Creation: (1) God formed man from the dust, or
and afterward the wounded and discouraged king fell on his earth, and (2) He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Thus man became a 9. When will the righteous be given immortality?
sword and took his own life (1 Samuel 31:2-4). Who spoke to living soul.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 We shall all be _______________, In a
Saul through the witch—a resurrected prophet of God, or a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last _______________: for
devil in disguise?