Verse that comes to mind is "it is appointed for men to die once, afterwards comes the judgement" Hebrews 9:27
I think that would suggest soul sleep is not partial.
Judgment takes place after they die with a long period of time passing (Whether they are awake or asleep).
Lazarus and the Rich-man does not say anything about how the rich-man was judged. The rich-man had no knowledge of certain things. Surely at the judgment his life would have been revealed to the Lord, and He would have been judged and thrown into the Lake of Fire. But this has not happened yet for him.
He was also not on earth again though, but in some semi conscious netherworld akin to Abraham s bosom.
But then that would be the second ressurection and you'd also kinda be suggesting that resurrections could occur multiple times during soul sleep. I'd probably not agree there.
Finally, I guess I just doubt why such a place would need to exist at all after God has recreated His perfected Eden. Why bother immortalizing all that sin and evil by keeping it consciously existant forever? Wouldn't that marr the new creation just by existing in some sense, alongside of it? Is it not righteous judgement that it not exist any longer at all?
(b) A Physical Resurrection (in two phases) (A Flesh and Blood Resurrection before the Millennium, and a Flesh and Blood Resurrection after the Millennium).
A partial soul sleep (the wicked or the saints sleeping at certain points in time would not conflict with these resurrections).
Would this not technically be 3 ressurections then? Wicked person A dies 1000 years ago, goes to soul sleep, is resurrected before millennium, dies before or during millennium, is resurrected to face GWTJ.
You believe then that the bosom of Abraham is real? If it is not allegory, then the bosom must be real also.
You said:And then you believe that the lost are in communication with the saved? Which goes against what God said to stay away from mediums and such.
You said:The meaning of this, Jesus explained:
Luk 16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Luk 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Luk 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Though--even if--one rose from the dead---not that they do.
Also, many scriptures liken the wicked to stubble and ashes before God. Both of those like things are incapable of sustaining flames. You can't light ashes on fire, for example.
I see this as nitpicking. The Bible uses both metaphors and things in our physical universe to describe real places. So it is not a contradiction.
This applies to those who are alive and not of those who are already dead and are living in the same dimension of the realm of the dead.
It's a real story of the afterlife to illustrate a point for us who live in the real world. It is not a fictional bed time story.
As Scripture says, he that is last is first, and he that is first is last.
While there is a main spiritual meaning to this part in Scripture, many times God's Word has double meanings. I see one double meaning on this part of Scripture as saying that those believers who are last (who lived during the Tribulation) will be first to go through the Millennium. Those who are first (believers before the Tribulation) will be resurrected last after the Millennium is over.
Those who are first (believers before the Tribulation) will be resurrected last after the Millennium is over
Would both ressurections (of believers) not happen simultaneously according to 1 Thessalonians 4:15?
I think Revelation 20:4-6 is suggesting that ALL the righteous will come alive and be present during the Millenial Kingdom, not that some righteous will come alive after the MK.
It's not an explanation of the state of the dead---Jesus said what the story meant. I'll take what He has to say about it.
The dead know not anything. Doesn't say a thing about---only in this world, they know everything on the other realm.
Ecc_9:5 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.
Doesn't say they immediately go to their reward. Doesn't say a thing about there being any immediate afterlife.
As for nitpicking---you bet---if you want to know a fake from the real, you study the real with a magnifying glass, then the fake is much easier to spot.
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