🇮🇳 QUESTION: Is there life after death? ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔵 ANSWER: All of us have been challenged by this question... “If a man dies, shall he live again?” Is there life after death? What happens to us after we die? Do we simply cease to exist? Is death a revolving door of departing and returning to earth? Does everyone go to the same place after death, or do we go to different places? Is there really a Heaven and Hell? 🔵 The Bible tells us that, yes, there is life after death. This world is not all there is, and mankind was made for something more. At death, the body ceases to function and begins the process of returning to the earth, but the spiritual part of man lives on: his soul. 🔵 To those who are redeemed and have their sin forgiven, God gives eternal life, an existence so glorious that “no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him” (1-Corinthians 2:9). This eternal life is inextricably linked to the Person of Jesus Christ: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." (John 6:47) and “Whoever has the Son has life” (1-John 5:12). - ● Matthew 26 - Lord Jesus Christ: 28. For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. - 🔵 Jesus Christ, God in human flesh, came to the earth to pay for our sins and give us the gift of eternal life: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5). Three days after His crucifixion, Jesus proved Himself victorious over death by rising from the grave - He is The Life personified (John 11:25) and the ultimate proof that there is life after death. 🔵 The resurrection of the Christ is a well-documented event. The apostle Paul invited people to question the over 500 eyewitnesses who saw Jesus after His resurrection (1-Corinthians 15:6). All of them could bear testimony to the fact that Jesus is alive and that there is indeed life after death. 🔵 The resurrection of Christ, which gives us the sure hope of life after death, is the cornerstone of the Christian faith (1-Corinthians 15:12-19). Because Christ was raised from the dead, we have faith that we, too, will be resurrected. As Jesus told His disciples, “Because I live, ye shall live also” (John 14:19). Christ was only the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again (1-Corinthians 15:23). Just as God The Father raised up Jesus’ body, so will our bodies be resurrected upon Jesus’ return on earth (1-Corinthians 6:14). - ● Hebrews 9 27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. - 🔵 The fact of life after death does not mean everyone will go to Heaven, however. People will continue to exist after they die, and there will be a resurrection someday, but God makes a distinction between the resurrection of the just (those who are in Christ) and the unjust (those who die in their sin): “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2). Apostle Paul put it this way: “There will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked” (Acts 24:15). 🔵 It is appointed for us to die once, and after that will come judgment (Hebrews 9:27). Those who have been made righteous by faith in Christ will go into eternal life in Heaven, but those who have rejected Christ as Savior will be sent to eternal punishment in Hell (Matthew 25:46). Hell, like Heaven, is a literal place. It is a place where the unrighteous will experience the never-ending, eternal wrath of God. Hell is described as a lake of fire where the inhabitants will be tormented day and night forever and ever (Revelation 20:10). In Hell, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, indicating intense grief and anger, and terrible torment for eternity in Hell Fire. (Matthew 13:42, Matthew 25:41, Luke 16:23,24,28, Revelation 14:11, Revelation 20:10). 🔵 God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but desires them to turn from their wicked ways so that they can live (Ezekiel 33:11). But He will not force us into submission; if we choose to reject Christ, the one and only Savior, we reject the Heaven that He has prepared, and we will live eternally apart from Him. Life on earth is a preparation for what is to come. Faith in Christ prepares us for life after death: “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:18). 🔵 Everyone will experience life after death in some manner. For believers in Christ, life after death is eternal life in Heaven with God. For unbelievers, life after death is eternity in the lake of fire. How can we receive eternal Life and avoid Hell? There is only One Way-through faith in Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus said, “I Am the Resurrection and Life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die...” (John 11:25-26). - ● Ephesians 1 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; - ● Ephesians 2 8. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9. Not of works, lest any man should boast. - 🔵 The free gift of eternal life is available to all. “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36). We will not be given the opportunity to accept God’s gift of salvation after death. Our eternal destination is determined in our earthly lifetimes by our reception or rejection of Jesus Christ. “For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” (2-Corinthians 6:2). 🔵 If we trust in the death of Jesus Christ as the full payment for our sin, and we believe in His resurrection from the dead, we are guaranteed eternal life after death, in glory (1-Peter 1:3-5). - 🔵 Lord Jesus Christ after ressurrection: ● Mark 16 14. Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. 15. And he said unto them, Go ye into ALL THE WORLD, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16. He that BELIEVETH and is BAPTIZED SHALL BE SAVED; but HE that BELIEVETH not SHALL BE DAMNED. - 🔵 YHWH (Lord Jesus Christ) will completely abolish idols - ● Isaiah 2 18 And the idols He shall utterly abolish. 19. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the YHWH, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21. To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the YHWH, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth. - ● Revelation 21 - Lord Jesus Christ: 8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. - ● Matthew 25 41. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels