What Happens Next

Too Deep for One Evening!

When we start dealing with the moment of death and all that follows

Far too much Scripture to unpack

Far to many concepts to explore

Far too much misinformation, pop-culture and tradition

We’re in a Process

Romans 8:30 ESV

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

End stage is glorification—when we receive our resurrection bodies (rapture)

But…between death and the Rapture...

2 Corinthians 5:6–8 ESV

So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

We have a clue: Luke 16:19-30

Likely not a parable; doesn’t fit all the norms; Jesus names the beggar

We have the two types of people displayed

Lazarus shows us the result of the believer’s faith

The rich man, shows us the fate of the non-believer

Both are in an assigned place (Intermediate State)

One pleasant, one not

Separated, yet (interestingly) visible to each other in some way

Eternal State

Revelation discusses the New Heaven and Earth—the Lake of Fire

Things to Examine

What the Bible does NOT teach

The moment of Death

Our Intermediate State

Rapture

The Millennium (1000 year reign of Christ)

…might be a tough one; a long one

Our activities in the eternal state