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Jan 4, 2019 · In Psalm 139:8, we see the word HEAVEN. The prophet ISAIAH foresees a day when the LORD God will swallow up death forever (Isaiah 25:8). Then dead people will live. Their dead bodies shall arise (Isaiah 26:19). The prophet DANIEL foresees a day when deceased people will awake. Some will awake to “everlasting life.”.
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Bible verses related to Eternal Life from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance. - Sort By Book Order. John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life ...
Apr 6, 2023 · For the believer in Yahweh in Old Testament times, death did not end it all. There was life after death, and that life was to be in the presence of the living God. While Enoch did not experience ‘ resurrection,’ he did experience glorification. He did, along with Elijah, transcend this mortal life and go in his body to be with God.
- Introduction
- The Old Testament View of Death
- The Hebrew Perception of ‘Sheol’
- The Righteous in The After-Life
- Conclusion
It is not uncommon to encounter statements which suggest that the Old Testament has almost nothing to say on the subject of life after death; and what little it does report is usually assessed in quite negative terms. Indeed, not a few writers give the distinct impression that for the Hebrews the after-life was envisaged as a dull, dreary existence...
Central to any discussion on the Old Testament view of the after-life is the Hebrew understanding of death.How was death perceived? What actually happened to an individual when he died? Did it mean the end of existence? Or was there something beyond death? Initially it is important to note that the Hebrew term for ‘death’, māwet, has a variety of c...
The second major premise underlying Bailey’s position is that all men, irrespective of their moral character, share a similar destiny after death: all go down to Sheol.18 On account of this any attempt to distinguish between a ‘good’ and a ‘bad’ must be based on events prior to rather than after death. Thus Bailey focuses on the circumstancesof dea...
Although the wicked encountered a ‘bad’ death, the righteous, in contrast, were perceived as experiencing a ‘good’ death. The question arises, however: What happened to the righteous after death? Surprisingly perhaps, the Old Testament contains no detailed account of the fate of the righteous immediately after death. As a result the best that one c...
While some of the evidence is ambiguous, and questions remain to be answered, we are perhaps now in a position to clarify certain fundamental issues regarding the Old Testament perception of the after-life. Firstly, we may reject the currently popular belief that in the pre-Exilic period death was viewed by the Hebrews as a natural legacy of man’ m...
- 1 Kings 17:17–24. After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
- 2 Kings 4:18–20, 32–37. When the [Shunammite woman’s] child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers. And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!”
- Job 19:25–27 (NIV) I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another.
- Psalm 16:8–11. I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.
Aug 5, 2024 · Probably the most famous verse concerning eternal life in John is found in the story of raising Lazarus (John 11) where Jesus explains to Lazarus’ sister: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even if he dies; and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”.
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Matthew 25:46. Verse Concepts. These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”. Daniel 12:2. Verse Concepts. Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt. John 3:16. Verse Concepts.