Where are Believers after Death? 💀
Q: Where are people after they die, and where are believers? A: There is a false teaching about soul sleep that has been around for a long time. This explains that issue. Scriptures teach that, for the believer, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord" Philippians 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:8 Jesus spoke of conscious Abraham, a poor Lazarus in Paradise, and the Rich man in Hell. He even named them. Luke 16:19-31 Now Jesus was also saying to the disciples... 19“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. But a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom, and ...