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What fate
awaits all people as a result of their fall into sin?
“In Adam
everybody die“ (1 Cor 15.22, see Rom 5.12).
What is the
state of a person at the time of death?
“Everything
that your hand can do, do it according to your strength; for in the grave where
you are going there is no work, no meditation, no knowledge, no wisdom” (Eccl
9.10).
Note. This
means that when a person dies, his mental and physical activity ceases.
Therefore, being in the grave, he cannot glorify God or even think about Him
(Ps 6.6), since on the day of his death all his thoughts disappear (Ps 146.2-4).
What
circumstance indicates that people will be delivered from this condition?
“From the
power of hell I will redeem them; from death I will deliver them. Death! where
is your sting? hell! where is your victory?“ (Os 13.14).
Through
whom will the redemption of people be accomplished?
“For as
death is through a man, so is the resurrection of the dead through a man. As in
Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive” (1 Cor 15.21-22).
What would
have happened to the dead if Christ had not secured their deliverance?
“For if the
dead do not rise, then Christ has not risen; and if Christ is not risen, then
your faith is vain: you are still in your sins; therefore also those who died
in Christ perished” (1 Cor 15.16-18).
Why did God
send His only begotten Son into this world?
“For God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3.16).
What did
the Sadducees reject at the time of Christ?
”Then came
some of the Sadducees who rejected the resurrection” (Luke 20.27).
How did
Christ prove from the Old Testament Scriptures that there would be a
resurrection of the dead?
“And that
the dead are resurrected, and Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord
the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. But God is not
the God of the dead, but of the living, for with Him all are alive” (Luke 20.37-38).
Note. In
the light of the coming resurrection, this means that in God all will be alive.
He wants all people to be alive.
What
examples from nature teach the truth about the resurrection and the salvation
of the righteous?
“What you
sow will not come to life unless it dies” (1 Cor 15.36).
“Truly,
truly, I say to you, if a grain of wheat, falling into the ground, does not
die, it will remain alone; but if he dies, he will bear much fruit” (John 12.24).
Note. The
seed dies to give rise to new life. This is a lesson for us about the
resurrection. All who love God will be called to life to dwell for endless ages
in the new earth.
Whose voice
will raise the dead?
“Do not
marvel at this: for the time is coming in which all who are in the tombs will
hear the voice of the Son of God, and will come out” (John 5.28-29).
“The Lord
himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be raised” (1 Thess 4.16).
Note. The
Son of God and the Archangel are one and the same person, and there is only one
Archangel, the Bible does not have this word in the plural. And the proper name
Michael in Hebrew means "who is like God".
