Question on Soul Sleep, death, resurrection?

Without Jesus' sacrficial death none of us would even be reconciled to the Father, Jehovah. This led the way for us all to receive "life". Both on earth for those of the "Great Crowd", and in Heaven for those Kings & Priests, or "Anointed". Those will serve along with Jesus Christ for the thousand year reign. Rev. 20:1-5

For now, when we die, we become unconscious but each person has a change at a Resurrection in the "Last Days", which we are living in right now.

For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. Eccl. 9:5

“The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his [Jesus’] voice and come out.” John 5:28, 29

This is the short answer for you. ;)

3.) Soul sleep” is a belief that after a person dies, his/her soul “sleeps” until the resurrection and final judgment. The concept of “soul sleep” is not biblical. When the Bible describes a person “sleeping” in relation to death (Luke 8:52; 1 Corinthians 15:6), it does not mean literal sleep. Sleeping is just a way to describe death because a dead body appears to be asleep. The moment we die, we face the judgment of God (Hebrews 9:27). For believers, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Philippians 1:23). For unbelievers, death means everlasting punishment in hell (Luke 16:22-23).

Until the final resurrection, though, there is a temporary heaven—paradise (Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:4) and a temporary hell—Hades (Revelation 1:18; 20:13-14). As can be clearly seen in Luke 16:19-31, neither in paradise nor in Hades are people sleeping. It could be said, though, that a person’s body is “sleeping” while his soul is in paradise or Hades. At the resurrection, this body is “awakened” and transformed into the everlasting body a person will possess for eternity, whether in heaven or hell. Those who were in paradise will be sent to the new heavens and new earth (Revelation 21:1). Those who were in Hades will be thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:11-15). These are the final, eternal destinations of all people—based entirely on whether or not a person trusted in Jesus Christ for salvation.

1.) Jesus was the first to be bodily resurrected.

2.) Revelation 20:4-6 mentions a “first resurrection” and identifies those involved as “blessed and holy.” The second death (the lake of fire, Revelation 20:14) has no power over these individuals. The first resurrection, then, is the raising of all believers. It corresponds with Jesus’ teaching of the “resurrection of the just” (Luke 14:14) and the “resurrection of life” (John 5:29).

Revelation 20:12-13 identifies those comprising the second resurrection as the wicked judged by God at the great white throne judgment prior to being cast into the lake of fire. The second resurrection, then, is the raising of all unbelievers; the second resurrection is connected to the second death. It corresponds with Jesus’ teaching of the “resurrection of damnation” (John 5:29).

According to the bible, there is only one true religion ( or teaching). All the others were created by Satan to confuse you. (works, doesn't it?)

When you are trying to learn something, it is a good idea to start at the beginning so first, we must understand that God has selected 144,000 people to go to heaven and rule with Jesus. The rest of us who are acceptable to God will live forever on the earth after it has been cleansed of all evil on the day of Armageddon. The doctrines of limbo and purgatory are not taught in the bible.

The bible teaches that the dead are dead. Period. They know nothing and cannot communicate with the living.

Jesus is called the firstborn of the resurrection because he was the first to be resurrected. No one who died before him can be part of the heavenly class. Remember when he said that no man born of woman was better than John the baptizer, yet the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he?

As for a time lapse - yes. Millions have died who are in their graves. Most of them will be resurrected after Armageddon. Those who served God to a resurrection of life and those who didn't, to a resurrection of "judgment". That is they will be taught the truth and be given a chance to accept it and alter their lives accordingly. If they chose to do so, they will also receive everlasting life. If they, sadly, insist on living in sin and violence as they did in their life, they will not be allowed to continue because God has promised the rest of us, everlasting life in peace and happiness.

In 1984, physicists discovered what Jewish theologians have been saying since the early 1800s, based on Genesis 1: that the cosmos exists in at least 10 dimensions. God, being the ultimate supreme being, must necessarily enjoy free access to all o these dimensions, and reign over them.

Time/duration is a construct created by God through which we must pass in our 3-dimentional experience. To God, there is no such thing. All events in the universe are simpler to him than a straight line on a sheet of paper is to us. Upon death, our soul enters into this realm. There is no experience of duration to the soul whose body has died.

The terminology in the New Testament is anthropomorphic in nature so that we can relate to it. Interpreting "sleep" (as it appears in 1 Thess. 4 for example) as a dormant state of the soul would contradict Phil. 1:23 and 2 Cor. 5:8 and Luke 16, etc...

The term "firstborn" is often used for Christ, not literally as a reference to his chronological birth order, but as a reference to his preeminent position as the only begotten heir of God the father. It is a title of position, not of order. He is the heir, the firstborn, the one to whom the inheritance is given.

The first resurrection has three parts (God is a trinity):

1. Christ the first fruits (1Cor. 15)

2. Rapture of the church

3. Rapture of tribulation saints

The first resurrection only pertains to the saved.

The second resurrection pertains to both the unsaved, and the just of different dispensations outside the church and tribulation period.

Christ had to be the first resurrected from the dead - the firstfruits. So the OT saints waited in Abraham's bosom (paradise) until the Christ would come. As Jesus said, Abraham longed to see his day and saw it and was glad.

But as the story of Lazarus and the rich man show, the OT saints were not in soul sleep, but able to speak, remember family, etc..When Christ was resurrected, so were these (Mat 27:53), and he fulfilled the saying "he led captivity captive". But after his resurrection, his people go immediately to him upon death. As Paul said, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord". In this way, the first resurrection is a type, not an event.

YAHUSHUA referred to death as 'sleep'. In sleep you are not aware of anything. Scripture makes much of the resurrection, which would seem to communicate that the dead are really dead until they are brought back to life.

I'm not sure this can answer these questions, but if you watch "The Lazarus Phenomenon" on DVD or FREE over the Internet, you can see what people have experienced. As soon as they have died! This ones covers men that had been dead from hours to four days!

When one dies, one falls asleep, if one believe in Christ he/she falls asleep in Christ, It is however Christ who wakes us from that sleep, the same as when Lazarus died, Christ called out to him with a loud voice "Lazarus come forth" and Lazarus came forth after being in the grave for a few days.