#Bible verse about strength after death full

And they cried with a loud voice saying, 'How long O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' And a white robe was given to each of them and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants, and their comrades, who would be killed as they were, was completed ( Revelation 6:9-11).Īnd I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, 'Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.' Yes, says the Spirit, 'that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them' ( Revelation 14:13). When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of the Lord and for the testimony they held. Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him ( 1 Thessalonians 5:10).īelievers who die are in a restful state. Paul told the church at Thessalonica that believers will always be with the Lord. The rich man in Hades saw both Lazarus and Abraham. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side ( Luke 16:22, 23). So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. When the beggar Lazarus died, the Scripture says. I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living ( Matthew 22:32). He reminded them what God had said to Moses. Jesus told the religious leaders in His day that God was the God of the living. Though Christians who die go to be with the Lord, this is not when they receive their final reward, or their resurrection body.īelievers are in a state of awareness after death. Final rewards will occur after the resurrection - which is still future. The intermediate state is not the place of final reward for the believer. This is another indication that the believing dead go immediately to be with Christ.

But when Stephen was about to die, Jesus stood to welcome him into God's presence. The usual picture of Jesus is sitting on the right hand of God the Father. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit' ( Acts 7:55, 56, 59).

#Bible verse about strength after death full

Upon his death, the martyr Stephen called upon Jesus to receive his spirit.Īnd he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, 'Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!'. Jesus talked about believers being with Him in the next world.įather, I desire that those also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory, which You have given Me because you loved Me before the foundation of the world ( John 17:24). Paul says that his death would be far better for him than remaining alive because he would be in the presence of Christ. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord ( 2 Corinthians 5:1, 2, 8).įor I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better ( Philippians 1:23). For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed, we shall not be found naked.

The Apostle Paul also taught that believers would be in Christ's presence upon their death.įor we know that if our earthly house, this tent is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Jesus promised the dying robber on the cross that he would be with Him immediately after death.Īnd Jesus said to him, 'Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise' ( Luke 23:43). Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it ( Ecclesiastes 12:7).Īnd to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect ( Hebrews 12:23).Īt death, the spirit of the believer enters into Christ's presence. The spirits of departed believers are with the Lord.

Though the Bible does not have a whole lot to say concerning the intermediate state of the believer, there are some basic conclusions we can make. The intermediate state is the time in which the spirit, or soul, of the believer exists between physical death and the resurrection of the body.