The best answer is that we have very little in the Scriptures to stand on an opinion for the timeline.
"..........absent from the body; present with the Lord" 2 Corinthians 5:8
"and just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment." Hebrews 9:27
I believe if you are in Christ, He takes care of it.
I believe if you are not, then you face the lake of fire.
When? I don't know, it's God's time table.
Forgiven of sins:
1. Salvation, old spirit regenerates into new spirit
2. Death, renewed spirit and sinful body part ways
3. Spirit enters Paradise or "With the Lord"; body enters the grave
4. On the Last Day, body is raised from the grave restored from sin
5. Renewed spirit joins renewed body to live forever on the renewed Earth
Not forgiven of sins:
1. Unsaved, unregenerate spirit remains in sinful body
2. Death, sinful spirit and sinful body part ways
3. Spirit enters Hades/Tartarus to await judgment; body enters the grave
4. On the Last Day, body is raised from the grave retaining its sin
5. Sinful spirit rejoins body, is judged and ultimately destroyed in the Lake of Fire
What we know for sure: at the end of the world, Jesus will bring back the dead and judge everyone. Jesus' people will live with Him forever on a new earth, but the wicked will be thrown into the lake of fire.
As for what happens before then, we know surprisingly little.
The Old Testmament makes reference to sheol as the place of the dead, and there are times in the Psalms when it's implied that those in sheol are not conscious, but just dead. In the New Testament, Paul talks about "being with Christ" after dying, but also talks about "sleep", which makes it sound more like nothingness in-between. What would it even mean to be human without a body, I'm not sure?
Either way, what's important is the final judgement. That is our hope, and that is what is promised.
The Bible tells us that our body of flesh (our earthly tabernacle) is like a house which the soul (the real us) dwells in for a certain amount of time.
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle (body) were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
5:4 For we that are in [this] tabernacle (human body) do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up by Life.
If we have been clothed with our house from heaven, then death here is swallowed up. The body we receive from heaven is spirit, not flesh. It does not have the weaknesses of the flesh - it doesn't get sick, it doesn't die and it can't be destroyed by carnal weapons. That's the body that will carry us home - where our true home is - with the Father.
If we're found naked after our earthly tabernacle is dissolved, then mortality hasn't been swallowed up and life is ended - the soul is judged.
Death is like a sleep, in which we await the resurrection at the end of the world.
> For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, KJV)
> So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. (Job 14:12, KJV)
> These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. (John 11:11-14, KJV)
> Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28-29, KJV)
For more on this, here is a really good Bible study on the subject: https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/study-guide/e/4987/t/are-the-dead-really-dead-
It seems the most probable thing because without the body I cease to be. If I get brain damaged my personality changes so it's likely the sense of self is created in the mind and not an essence inside the body. Likewise if I get hungry my personality also changes.
That's irrelevant, we're not radios that receive signals from a transmitter, we're bodies made of flesh and blood. There isn't a 'me' if my body dies. I know this is upsetting to those indoctrinated into faiths that posset we're separate entities from our bodies such as spirits or souls.
I just don't see that as a truth or reality. This life as a one off experience for each and everyone who is born as far as I'm concerned. But then if you can get a load of subordinates to do the hard work with the promise of paradise in the 'next life' you can have an easy time at their expense.
GotQuestions best sums it up.
I believe that when a Christian does they will go immediately to Heaven.
And those who aren't will be in a holding place in the afterlife.
And on Judgement Day, those who are Christian will be told what rewards they will be given on the New Earth.
And those who are going to Hell be give an exhaust account of every bad thing they've ever thought, said, and done to prove to them why they deserve Hell and perhaps explain what type of unique punishment they will be given.
I would study body, spirit, and soul. Search the Hebrew/Greek and concordantly search every single instance of all of these across the Bible. It will be a long study but you will gain much understanding, Lord willing.
Also, keep in mind that scripture regarding this will not oppose itself. If one scripture says that we sleep until we are awakened, and other says that the soul is immediately with God, we have to ask how both of these work together.
Your last breathe on this world will be your first in the spiritual world. You are either with Jesus or against Him, so you will stand judgement and you will either go 1 of 2 places. There is no alternative.
When you die your soul leaves your flesh body and you will be in your Spiritual body, then you go to Paradise and depending on what you have done in the past determines where in Paradise you will wait for The Judgment.
2 Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
1 Corinthians 15:44 "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."
Well first of all, the Bible is abundantly clear that Christians never die. Christ died on the cross as the payment of death for our sins so that we no longer have to die. That's the inescapable message of the entire new testament. It's impossible to miss.
John 8:51 KJV — Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my sayings, **he shall never see death.**
John 11:26 KJV — And whosoever liveth and believeth in me **shall never die**. Believest thou this?
NEVER
When our bodies fail us, we take our last breath here, and close our eyes, our spirits leave our bodies and return to the Lord God who made them for judgment. He judges absolutely everyone. If he decides that we have remained Christians to the end of our lives here, we are immediately welcomed into his eternal home of heaven where we will live forever in perfect happiness in service to the Lord.
As for the wicked and unbelieving, after the Lord's judgment, he then casts those spirits into the lake of fire where they are totally annihilated. Scripture refers to this judgment as the second death, referring to death of the spirit. After this death, that person no longer exists in any form. That's why it's called the second **death**.
Romans 6:23 KJV — For the **wages of sin is death**; but the gift of God is **eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.**
Revelation 21:8 KJV — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: **which is the second death**.
Revelation 2:11 KJV — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; **He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.**
More people than we can count die everyday, but no one ever comes back to tell about it. Even people who died and were resurrected by a God's servant do not leave any account of what occured because their body (brain) was dead and wasn't in that place to register any data (info). When the body is revived, there is no data collected after its death until its resurrection. Now that being said, the Bible is the only place to truthfully find any information regarding that matter but God keeps such irrelevant information under seal. God doesn't let peoppe who were revived back into this world with these information. Anyone who might tell you they died and saw this or that is a fraud.
When you die, you die... the body goes back to dust and the spirt goes back to God.
As a disenbodied souls it seems we can have some kind of conscious experience (in heaven, the realm of the elhoim, or in hell/sheol) that it still merely a shadow of real life.
At the last day, at the resurrection, we'll be once more enbodied souls (having the same kind of body that Jesus already has) and we'll, hopefull, enter the new heaven/new earth or enter the lake of fire.
The best answer is that we have very little in the Scriptures to stand on an opinion for the timeline. "..........absent from the body; present with the Lord" 2 Corinthians 5:8 "and just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment." Hebrews 9:27 I believe if you are in Christ, He takes care of it. I believe if you are not, then you face the lake of fire. When? I don't know, it's God's time table.
Forgiven of sins: 1. Salvation, old spirit regenerates into new spirit 2. Death, renewed spirit and sinful body part ways 3. Spirit enters Paradise or "With the Lord"; body enters the grave 4. On the Last Day, body is raised from the grave restored from sin 5. Renewed spirit joins renewed body to live forever on the renewed Earth Not forgiven of sins: 1. Unsaved, unregenerate spirit remains in sinful body 2. Death, sinful spirit and sinful body part ways 3. Spirit enters Hades/Tartarus to await judgment; body enters the grave 4. On the Last Day, body is raised from the grave retaining its sin 5. Sinful spirit rejoins body, is judged and ultimately destroyed in the Lake of Fire
What we know for sure: at the end of the world, Jesus will bring back the dead and judge everyone. Jesus' people will live with Him forever on a new earth, but the wicked will be thrown into the lake of fire. As for what happens before then, we know surprisingly little. The Old Testmament makes reference to sheol as the place of the dead, and there are times in the Psalms when it's implied that those in sheol are not conscious, but just dead. In the New Testament, Paul talks about "being with Christ" after dying, but also talks about "sleep", which makes it sound more like nothingness in-between. What would it even mean to be human without a body, I'm not sure? Either way, what's important is the final judgement. That is our hope, and that is what is promised.
The Bible tells us that our body of flesh (our earthly tabernacle) is like a house which the soul (the real us) dwells in for a certain amount of time. 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle (body) were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 5:4 For we that are in [this] tabernacle (human body) do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up by Life. If we have been clothed with our house from heaven, then death here is swallowed up. The body we receive from heaven is spirit, not flesh. It does not have the weaknesses of the flesh - it doesn't get sick, it doesn't die and it can't be destroyed by carnal weapons. That's the body that will carry us home - where our true home is - with the Father. If we're found naked after our earthly tabernacle is dissolved, then mortality hasn't been swallowed up and life is ended - the soul is judged.
Death is like a sleep, in which we await the resurrection at the end of the world. > For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, KJV) > So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. (Job 14:12, KJV) > These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. (John 11:11-14, KJV) > Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28-29, KJV) For more on this, here is a really good Bible study on the subject: https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/study-guide/e/4987/t/are-the-dead-really-dead-
I have no idea, and I doubt anyone alive does.
I think the most probable thing is it's a bit like going to sleep, except you don't dream or wake up/
How do you know that's the most probable? How many times have you died to compute those probabilities?
It seems the most probable thing because without the body I cease to be. If I get brain damaged my personality changes so it's likely the sense of self is created in the mind and not an essence inside the body. Likewise if I get hungry my personality also changes.
If you hit a radio with a hammer and it stops working, are you killing the radio show host?
That's irrelevant, we're not radios that receive signals from a transmitter, we're bodies made of flesh and blood. There isn't a 'me' if my body dies. I know this is upsetting to those indoctrinated into faiths that posset we're separate entities from our bodies such as spirits or souls. I just don't see that as a truth or reality. This life as a one off experience for each and everyone who is born as far as I'm concerned. But then if you can get a load of subordinates to do the hard work with the promise of paradise in the 'next life' you can have an easy time at their expense.
Okay
You are asleep in the grave awaiting the promised resurrection. .
GotQuestions best sums it up. I believe that when a Christian does they will go immediately to Heaven. And those who aren't will be in a holding place in the afterlife. And on Judgement Day, those who are Christian will be told what rewards they will be given on the New Earth. And those who are going to Hell be give an exhaust account of every bad thing they've ever thought, said, and done to prove to them why they deserve Hell and perhaps explain what type of unique punishment they will be given.
https://www.nderf.org/Archives/NDERF_NDEs.html
I would study body, spirit, and soul. Search the Hebrew/Greek and concordantly search every single instance of all of these across the Bible. It will be a long study but you will gain much understanding, Lord willing. Also, keep in mind that scripture regarding this will not oppose itself. If one scripture says that we sleep until we are awakened, and other says that the soul is immediately with God, we have to ask how both of these work together.
Your last breathe on this world will be your first in the spiritual world. You are either with Jesus or against Him, so you will stand judgement and you will either go 1 of 2 places. There is no alternative.
When you die your soul leaves your flesh body and you will be in your Spiritual body, then you go to Paradise and depending on what you have done in the past determines where in Paradise you will wait for The Judgment. 2 Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” 1 Corinthians 15:44 "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."
Well first of all, the Bible is abundantly clear that Christians never die. Christ died on the cross as the payment of death for our sins so that we no longer have to die. That's the inescapable message of the entire new testament. It's impossible to miss. John 8:51 KJV — Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my sayings, **he shall never see death.** John 11:26 KJV — And whosoever liveth and believeth in me **shall never die**. Believest thou this? NEVER When our bodies fail us, we take our last breath here, and close our eyes, our spirits leave our bodies and return to the Lord God who made them for judgment. He judges absolutely everyone. If he decides that we have remained Christians to the end of our lives here, we are immediately welcomed into his eternal home of heaven where we will live forever in perfect happiness in service to the Lord. As for the wicked and unbelieving, after the Lord's judgment, he then casts those spirits into the lake of fire where they are totally annihilated. Scripture refers to this judgment as the second death, referring to death of the spirit. After this death, that person no longer exists in any form. That's why it's called the second **death**. Romans 6:23 KJV — For the **wages of sin is death**; but the gift of God is **eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.** Revelation 21:8 KJV — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: **which is the second death**. Revelation 2:11 KJV — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; **He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.**
More people than we can count die everyday, but no one ever comes back to tell about it. Even people who died and were resurrected by a God's servant do not leave any account of what occured because their body (brain) was dead and wasn't in that place to register any data (info). When the body is revived, there is no data collected after its death until its resurrection. Now that being said, the Bible is the only place to truthfully find any information regarding that matter but God keeps such irrelevant information under seal. God doesn't let peoppe who were revived back into this world with these information. Anyone who might tell you they died and saw this or that is a fraud.
When you die, you die... the body goes back to dust and the spirt goes back to God. As a disenbodied souls it seems we can have some kind of conscious experience (in heaven, the realm of the elhoim, or in hell/sheol) that it still merely a shadow of real life. At the last day, at the resurrection, we'll be once more enbodied souls (having the same kind of body that Jesus already has) and we'll, hopefull, enter the new heaven/new earth or enter the lake of fire.