Death

1. When a man dies, where does he go?

"Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb" Job 21:32

2. The wicked are reserved there until they will be brought forth to what?

"To the day of wrath" Job 21:30

"So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep" Job 14:12

3. Job said he would wait in the grave until what came?

"O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come" Job 14:13, 14

4. When will that change come?

"We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" 1 Corinthians 15:51, 52

5. At what event will they that are Christ’s be made alive?

"At his coming" 1 Corinthians 15:22, 23

6. Has David already gone to heaven?

"David is not ascended into the heavens" Acts 2:34

7. Where is David now?

"He is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day" Acts 2:29

8. What has become of him?

"For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption" Acts 13:36

9. How will God awaken the dead?

"With a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God" 1 Thessalonians 4:16

"And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds" Matthew 24:31

10. Until then, where do the dead wait?

"If I wait, the grave is mine house" Job 17:13

11. Where did Jesus say the dead are?

"In the graves" John 5:28

12. What words did Jesus use to say that his friend was dead?

"Lazarus sleepeth" John 11:11

13. How did David refer to his death?

"The sleep of death" Psalm 13:3

14. What words did Paul use to say that some of those who saw Jesus were now dead?

"Some are fallen asleep" 1 Corinthians 15:6

15. If there were no resurrection, what would happen to all who have fallen asleep?

"Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished" 1 Corinthians 15:18

16. When Jesus awoke from death, how did He say that He had not yet been to heaven?

"I am not yet ascended to my Father" John 20:17

17. What do dead people know?

"The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing" Ecclesiastes 9:5

18. What happens to their feelings and emotions?

"Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished" Ecclesiastes 9:6

19. When a person dies, what happens to all his thoughts?

"In that very day his thoughts perish" Psalm 146:4

20. What can we do while we are alive?

"While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being" Psalm 146:2

21. Can dead people praise the Lord?

"The dead praise not the Lord" Psalm 115:17

"The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day" Isaiah 38:19

22. Can the dead thank God or even remember Him?

"In death there is no remembrance of thee; in the grave who shall give thee thanks?" Psalm 6:5

23. Why will many people perish?

"Because they received not the love of the truth" 2 Thessalonians 2:10

24. If we haven’t learned to love the truth while we are alive, can we get it in the grave?

"They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth" Isaiah 38:18

25. How then should we use the short time in which we are alive?

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" Ecclesiastes 9:10

26. Why is it so important to do it now?

"For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave" Ecclesiastes 9:10