Death is a source of terror for those who do not know Jesus. However, since we are God’s children, we should not be afraid of dying because it will not affect us. Death, as we all know, is the soul’s separation from the body. However, the life that makes up our soul never expires.
When our family members go, it is difficult to handle. We shouldn’t act like unbelievers who have no hope. However, we hold out hope that we will be present with the Lord and rule in his heavenly realm forever.
Our physical bodies are formed of dust, and they will eventually return to dust, but the strong spiritual bodies we will receive in the future won’t suffer any losses. This is the reality that Jesus has revealed to his followers, and we have no doubt that one day when we are all in heaven, we shall all have such a magnificent body and be reunited.
Let’s examine the following texts from the Bible to better understand what will happen to us after we die and how to live so that we might enter God’s kingdom.
2 Corinthians 5:8(KJV) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:6(KJV) Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
Psalm 6:5(KJV) For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
1 Timothy 6:16(KJV) Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Hebrews 11:10(KJV) For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Genesis 2:7(KJV) And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2 Corinthians 5:1(KJV) For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Hebrews 12:1(KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Revelation 1:18(KJV) I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
1 Corinthians 15:54(KJV) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
2 Corinthians 5:9(KJV) Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
1 John 3:2(KJV) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
2 Corinthians 5:2(KJV) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
2 Timothy 4:8(KJV) Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
John 6:39(KJV) And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Hebrews 9:27(KJV) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
1 Corinthians 15:55(KJV) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Philippians 1:23(KJV) For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
John 14:3(KJV) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Ecclesiastes 12:7(KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
1 Thessalonians 5:23(KJV) And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:21(KJV) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
1 Thessalonians 4:16(KJV) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
2 Corinthians 5:3(KJV) If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Ecclesiastes 9:5(KJV) 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.
John 6:40(KJV) And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
1 Thessalonians 4:17(KJV) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Revelation 20:5(KJV) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Hebrews 11:13(KJV) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Matthew 10:28(KJV) And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
John 12:26(KJV) If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Psalm 16:11(KJV) Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalm 146:4(KJV) His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
John 6:54(KJV) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 11:24(KJV) Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Hebrews 8:13(KJV) In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Proverbs 14:32(KJV) The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
2 Corinthians 5:4(KJV) For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
1 Thessalonians 4:14(KJV) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
2 Timothy 4:6(KJV) For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Luke 23:43(KJV) And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
