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Lesson 2 · April 8, 1905

The State of the Dead

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Questions

  1. 1.What question is asked concerning those who are dead? .
  2. 2.What answer is given? .
  3. 3.What did the Lord say would be the result of transgression? .
  4. 4.Who disputed this statement? What did he say? . Note 1.
  5. 5.What word is used in the Bible to describe death? ; ; .
  6. 6.Have the dead a knowledge of God? .
  7. 7.How completely has their knowledge perished? ; .
  8. 8.What is said concerning the thoughts of those who are dead? .
  9. 9.Who alone can praise the Lord? ; .
  10. 10.What does the Scriptures say concerning the death of David? .
  11. 11.What is said concerning faithful Abraham? . Note 2.
  12. 12.What did the Saviour say concerning Lazarus? .
  13. 13.How is the process of dissolution described? . Note 3.
  14. 14.Is the death which is the lot of man different from that which befalls other living creatures? .
  15. 15.Under whose dominion are the dead held? ; .
  16. 16.When will the righteous be gathered home? ; .

Notes

1. The Lord warned man that the penalty for sin was death. Satan plainly contradicted the word of God by stating that man would not die, but be "as God, knowing good and evil." The doctrine therefore of consciousness in death has its origin wholly from this declaration of Satan in Eden. To make good his statement, "Ye shall not die," he has filled the world with the false idea of an immortal soul which survives the stroke of death, and continues to live separate from the body.

2. The statement concerning Abraham that he was "gathered to his people" could not mean that he went to be with them in a conscious state of existence, for his ancestors were all idolaters. .

3. At creation, the Lord breathed into the man whom He had made the breath of life. In death the process is reversed. The Lord takes from every living creature that which was given at creation, viz., the breath, and death results. . But that which the Lord takes from man at death was not a conscious entity prior to the time man received it; neither is it after death.

Bible texts in this lesson

Job 14:10 · Job 14:12 · Genesis 2:17 · Genesis 3:1-4 · 1 Thessalonians 4:13 · John 11:11-14 · 1 Corinthians 15:6 · Psalms 6:5 · Ecclesiastes 9:5 · Ecclesiastes 9:6 · Ecclesiastes 9:10 · Job 14:21 · Psalms 146:3 · Psalms 146:4 · Psalms 115:17 · Isaiah 38:17-19 · Acts 2:29 · Acts 2:34 · Acts 13:36 · Genesis 25:8 · Ecclesiastes 12:7 · Ecclesiastes 3:19 · Ecclesiastes 3:20 · Jeremiah 31:15-17 · John 5:28 · John 5:29 · John 14:1-3 · Matthew 24:31 · Joshua 24:2 · Psalms 104:29

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