Managing for the Master Till He Comes
Sabbath School Lesson 1
Part of God's Family
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On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 14
All Things New
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On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 13
The Judging Process
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On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 12
The Biblical Worldview
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Near-Death Experiences
In previous lessons, we have cited the people who were raised from the dead in The Bible. Nowhere in The Bible is there any account of anyone coming back and telling people what the afterlife was like.
Lazarus would be a prime example. He was dead, buried, and began the early stages of decaying. If anyone would have a story to tell, it would be him! Not a single word is written of what he saw while being dead.
It is popular today to hear many near-death experiences. And not just near-death, but those who claimed to have died. Books and movies have popularized the topic, and many believe that this shows there is an afterlife.
There are many possibilities for these stories. Since many people tell them, we can't just ignore them. There is speculation that they are caused by many things, including drugs that were given, brain reactions from trauma, lack of oxygen, or hallucinations. Some could be even be lying or encouraged to embellish a story.
For this discussion, we will not say that everyone is lying. Satan is able to bring deceptions on many levels, and an unconscious state can be very vulnerable. Even scientific and psychological experts do not agree on what is the cause of near-death experiences.
These experiences do not tell us anything about the afterlife. Let's be clear on that. Not a single word in The Bible mentions anything like these people claim to have experienced.
These experiences are also both good and bad. Many claim to have felt the fires of hell and have been afraid. Some say they saw Jesus, or a Jesus-like figure.
As Christians, we might be tempted to use these stories to give false hope. That somehow this proves there is life after death. Getting people to be saved through these near-death experiences is using false doctrine. So, how do we talk to people who think these visions of the afterlife are real?
First of all, the most telling aspect is that all of them do not agree on what they see. They even contradict each other. If these were true stories of saved and unsaved going through death and coming back, they would all need to agree on what it was like.
The Bible promises one New Earth and one New Jerusalem. There is only one way there, and that is through Jesus Christ. There are not multiple accounts in The Bible on how we get there. The saved are taken to heaven with Jesus when He returns.
A near-death experience is even mislabeled. There are those who want us to believe that they are actual death experiences. The Bible makes it clear that people are not aware of anything after death.
God does work through dreams and visions. Only messages that are consistent with The Bible and the teachings of Jesus are to be believed. The Bible is devoid of anyone dead seeing a dream or a vision.
Galatians 1:8 (NIV): "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!"
Matthew 10:16 (NIV): “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."
John 3:13 (NIV): "No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man"
Matthew 24:26-28 (NIV): “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man..."
On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 11
End-Time Deceptions
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Are there really people who are not good enough, nor wicked enough, but are in some sort of limbo as to their final reward from Jesus?
We would then have to believe that there is some world or place where these people are being held. To what end? So they can make up their minds sitting around for hundreds of years? Can the living pray them into heaven?
Those last two questions should be quickl
y answered by Christians. We are given one life, then the judgement.
Hebrews 9:27–28 (NKJV): "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation."
There is absolutely not a single verse in The Bible that says anyone has a second chance after death. There is not a single verse in The Bible that says the living can pray a dead person into heaven. There is not one verse anywhere in The Bible that says we can suffer for our dead loved ones to get them saved.
It would take a very long time to list and quote every verse, however, that says the dead know nothing and the wicked are destroyed at the Second Coming.
The wicked, those who have rejected the salvation of Jesus, have only one reward waiting: Eternal death.
Unfortunately, there are those in high religious places that deceive many with these false teaching. Even asking for money to help the process along.
Every Christian who reads The Bible should be able to discern the truth on these matters.
You cannot buy your way into heaven.
You cannot buy a loved one into heaven.
You cannot pray a dead person into heaven.
You cannot do any deed to make a dead person worthy of heaven.
Once a person dies, there is nothing left for any human, dead or alive, to do for that dead person. Their fate rests with Jesus.
If we look back on the parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus, even if you try and use that to come up with some type of pergatory, remember what Abraham said in that story: The fate of a person that dies is sealed. There is no second chance.
On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 10
The Fires of Hell
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The Thief on the Cross
Luke 23:43 (NKJV): "And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” "
It appears that Jesus told the thief on the cross who was repentant that he would meet Jesus, today, in Paradise.
Is that really what that verse is telling us? Again, as in the previous example, we must study this carefully.
We could look at punctuation, but this commentary will not do that. Why? Because there was no modern punctuation in The Bible's original writings. So playing around with punctuation can only lead others to not trust The Bible translations.
After all, if we can put a comma in a verse we don't like, what gives us the right to tell another that they cannot do the same thing in return to us?
Our best choice is to come to an honest, logical conclusion.
In Luke 20:37 (NKJV), Jesus says this:
"But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ "
Let's now look at another quote from Jesus in Matthew 22:32 (NKJV):
" ‘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.”
The Bible makes it clear that those three men were buried and rested with their forefathers. But Jesus considers them alive. When a righteous person dies, they are not "dead" to Jesus. Only sleeping.
God only gives living promises. Jesus is the living water. Anyone and anything in the KIngdom of God is not dead, but living. God has never made a dead promise. Even if that promise is thousands of years old, it is alive and well.
Galatians 3:29 (NKJV): "And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise."
The minute we belong to Jesus, we become citizens of the Kingdom of God. This kingdom is not full of dead people. We are alive in Christ.
Jesus could only be telling the thief next to Him that his salvation was at hand, and today he will indeed be part of that living promise.
That promise is to be with Jesus....in Paradise. When Jesus made that statement He was also telling us that He had full faith in God the Father to be resurrected. His mission was accomplished. Jesus emphatically implies that the thief will join Him in that living, eternal kingdom....on this day!
We have another thought, although it is part of the next day's lesson. When we die in Christ, and are awoken for the resurrection, it will seem as if no time has passed. It will be as if death and resurrection happened at the very same time. In essence, when we die, immediately to us, we will be in, "Paradise."
The majority of Christians believe that Jesus spent 3 days in the grave after dying on the cross. So the only logical conclusion would be that Jesus was not talking about physically being with anyone in Paradise on the very day He died.
On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 9
Contrary Passages?
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On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 8
The New Testament Hope
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On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 6
He Died for Us
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Primary Year C, 4th Quarter 2022, Lesson 6:
On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 6
He Died for Us
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On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 5
Resurrections Before the Cross
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Music should never be a wedge between church members.
"Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs."
Psalm 150:4
Watch a beautiful river with fall colors.
On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 4
The Old Testament Hope
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On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 3
Understanding Human Nature
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Watch and listen to Psalm 91 with beautiful fall foilage and autumn scenery.
Watch a struggling surfer set to:
Hebrews 10:36 "You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised."
On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 2
Death in a Sinful World
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1 Corinthians 13
The Love Chapter
Narrated with waterfall and fall colors background.
Matthew 6:9-13. The Lord's Prayer
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
On Death, Dying, and the Future Hope
Sabbath School Lesson 1
Rebellion in a Perfect Universe
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In the Crucible With Christ
Sabbath School Lesson 13
Christ in the Crucible
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In the Crucible With Christ
Sabbath School Lesson 12
Dying Like a Seed
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In the Crucible With Christ
Sabbath School Lesson 11
Waiting in the Crucible
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Sabbath School Lesson 10
Meekness in the Crucible
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Sabbath School Lesson 9
A Life of Praise
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Sabbath School Lesson 8
Indestructible Hope
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Sabbath School Lesson 7
Indestructible Hope
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Sabbath School Lesson 6
Struggling with all Energy
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Sabbath School Lesson 5
Extreme Heat
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Sabbath School Lesson 4
Seeing the Goldsmith's face
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Sabbath School Lesson 3
The Birdcage
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Sabbath School Lesson 2
The Crucibles That Come
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The Shepherd's Crucible
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Genesis
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Genesis
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Unlocking Revelation: Prophecy Seminar
Revelation's Millennium
"In this presentation Revelation will reveal to us what the Millennium is all about. What is the purpose of the Millennium? Who participates in the Millennium? What is God doing? What is satan doing? What are human beings doing? This presentation is foundational to understanding God's ultimate prophetic plan as revealed in the book of Revelation."
Presentation 12 - By Pastor James Boundey, Bullhead-city Seventh-day Adventist Church
Unlocking Revelation: Prophecy Seminar
Revelation solves death's mystery
"This presentation is foundational in understanding the prophecy of Revelation. It also reveals MUCH about our God. This presentation will give us a powerful glimpse of our God as He prophetically reveals to us the answers to the questions regarding the mystery of death."
Presentation 11 - By Pastor James Boundey, Bullhead-city Seventh-day Adventist Church
Genesis
Sabbath School Lesson 6
The Roots of Abraham
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Unlocking Revelation: Prophecy Seminar
Revelation's Rapture
Revelation's Rapture. We will discover what this rapture is all about. Revelation along with the rest of the Bible will ensure that we know exactly what to watch for. Revelation reveals to us what is going to happen.
Presentation 10 - By Pastor James Boundey, Bullhead-city Seventh-day Adventist Church
Unlocking Revelation: Prophecy Seminar
Revelation's Battle of Armageddon
The final battle. How does it all end? This presentation is foundational to understanding further prophecy in the book of Revelation. What will the battle of Armageddon be about? What is going to happen? What about the plagues in Revelation? Who is ultimately going to win?
Presentation 9 - By Pastor James Boundey, Bullhead-city Seventh-day Adventist Church
