Death and Destination

The statistics of death are staggering:

1 out of 1 people die

It is inescapable
 2Co 5:1-4 For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle/hut were dissolved/demolished, we have a
building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens. (2) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to
be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: (3) If
so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. (4)
For we that are in this tabernacle/hut do groan, being
burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed
upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
 What Is Death?
Secular view – The irreversible cessation of all of the
following: (1) total cerebral function, usually assessed by EEG
as flat-line (2) spontaneous function of the respiratory system,
and (3) spontaneous function of the circulatory system...

False Religious view –

Death is an illusion - Christian Science – New Thought
What Is Death According to the Bible?

In the bible there are three kinds of death:

• Spiritual death – When sin entered the human race (Gen.

2:17; Rom. 5:12-19
• Physical death – cessation of breath and the soul is
separated from the body – (Job. 27:3; Eccl. 12:7)
• The second death – Sinners cast into the “Lake of Fire”
Rev. 20:14
 The Only Exception To Escape Physical
Death In This Earth
THE RAPTURE
1Th 4:16-18

(17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we
ever be with the Lord. (18) Wherefore comfort one another with
these words.
 What Happens To Me When I Die
Non-Biblical Views

• Cease to exist as a conscious entity and biologically

degrade back to the earth
• Spiritually absorbed into the universal all
• Re-incarnate
• Experience metaphysical continuance of
consciousness regardless of beliefs
False biblical views:

• Soul sleep – Adventist groups

• Soul annihilation – Jehovah witnesses
• Everyone goes to heaven – Universalism
• Purgatory
 Bible view

• If one is a true Christian then

that one immediately goes to
heaven. II Cor. 5:6-8

• If one isn’t a Christian then

that one will die in their sins
and go to hell
 The Four Hells of the
KJV

1. Hell - Heb. Sheol – ps. 139:8 - Place of all the dead

in the earth righteous and unrighteous until the NT.
2. Hell – Gr. Hadace -Lk. 16:23- Acts 2:27 – Greek
equivalent to “sheol”.

3. Hell – Gehenna/Lake of fire - Mk. 9:43-47

4. Hell – Gr. Tartaroo - A place where some of the

some fallen angels are chained - II Peter 2:4
 The Bottomless pit – Abyss – Gr. Abusos
Where banished demons are sent – Luke 8: 26-36
“And they begged Him repeatedly not to order them
into the abyss. (KJV – deep – Gr. abussos)

The beast ascends from it – Rev. 11:7

Satan will be chained there - Rev. 20:1
There is no description of the abyss in the bible
 The Bible Cure For Death
For Spiritual death
Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by
one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and
of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ.)

For the second death

Rev 2:11 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says unto the churches; He that overcomes shall not be hurt
of the second death.

1Jn 5:5 Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that

believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
For physical death – Resurrection
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death hath no power,
• The first resurrection is a “kind” of resurrection more so
than a “time” of resurrection

• There is a resurrection of the “righteous and the

unrighteous” (Acts 24:15) They are separated by 1,000
years ( Rev. 20:6,7)

• Within the first resurrection is the rapture of the dead in

Christ ( I Thess. 4:16,17), later the resurrection of the
millennial dead (Rev. 20:4), and then the resurrection of
the righteous OT saints (Is. 26:19,20; Dan. 12:2-3; 11-13)
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• To see death not as an end

• To see it as an enemy that will be destroyed
• An attitude of hope instead of paralyzing fear
• Death is merely a propulsion mechanism that
jettisons us to our final destination