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THE STATE OF THE DEAD

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 4.

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THE STATE OF THE DEAD.

“Man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?” Job xiv, 10.

I. THEY ARE NOT WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN.—“No man hath ascended up to heaven.” John iii, 13; vii, 33, 34; viii, 21; xiii, 33; Acts ii, 34; Prov. xxx, 4. Neither are they in hell fire.—If so, what need of a judgment? Job xxi, 30; 2 Pet. ii, 9.

II. THEY ARE IN THE GRAVE.—“The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice.” John v, 28, 29; Gen. iii, 19; Job iii, 11–19; vii, 21; x, 18–22; xiv, 10–14; xvii, 13–16; Ps. lxxxviii, 10–12; Eccl. iii, 20; ix, 10; Eze. xxxvii, 12, 13; Dan xii, 2; Acts ii, 29.

III. THEY SLEEP.—“David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep.” Acts xiii, 36; Deut. xxxi, 16; 2 Sam. vii, 12; 1 Kings ii, 10; i, 21; 2 Kings xx, 21; 2 Chron. xxvi, 23; Job iii, 13; vii, 21; xiv, 12; Ps. lxxvi, 5; Matt. xxvii, 52; Acts vii, 60; 1 Cor. xv, 6, 18, 20, 51; 1 Thess. iv, 13–15; v, 10.

IV. THEY PRAISE NOT THE LORD, AND EXERCISE NO POWER OF MIND.—“In death there is no remembrance of thee; in the grave who shall give thee thanks?” Ps. vi, 5; Job xiv, 20, 21; Ps. lxxxviii, 10–12; cxv, 17; cxlvi, 4; Eccl. ix, 5, 6, 10; Isa. xxxviii, 18, 19; lxiii, 16.