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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 20.

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The State of the Dead

By Arthur L. Manous

ARTHUR L. MANOUS
What saith the Scriptures concerning those who are asleep?
“I would not have you to be ignorant,” says Paul, “concerning them which are asleep.” 1 Thess. 4:13.
“The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.” Ps. 115:17.
“Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” Job 14:10.
“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.” Ps. 146:4.
“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?” Ps. 6:5.
“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.
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Eccl. 9:10.
“The grave can not praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit can not hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day.” Isa. 38:18, 19.
“The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything: . . . their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.” Eccl. 9:5, 6.
“Men and brethren,” says Peter, “let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.” “For David is not ascended into the heavens.” And the patriarch Job adds, “So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor we raised out of their sleep.” Acts 2:29, 34; Job 14:12.
“If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. . . . 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: 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.” 1 Thess. 4:14-17.