What Happens When Someone Dies?

By Robert Wyeth

The systematic treatment of people who have died has been largely neglected in theology. Reformed theologians have not done justice to this subject, which is the very core of what will come in the future. Although some aspects of the question have received due emphasis, other parts have been neglected or forgotten.

From God's saving grace to man's eventual fall, what will happen to us at the end of time seems clear: death, waiting, judgement and the positioning of the righteous and unrighteous. As we grow older and get closer to death it is a good time to start thinking about what will happen.

Jesus Christ will return again. The kingdom of God is already present in a believer. Eternal life is there. The Spirit of God is already in the faithful who are waiting for their heavenly places. When we are dead, that will mark the eternal glories of the future.

It will be a mighty struggle and a crisis when the human race reaches its final chapter. The end is not something I would recommend to anyone with all the violence and struggles. The book of Revelation gives us an insight into the future. The end will reveal the final condition of both the righteous and the wicked, or the good and the bad.

Before Jesus Christ's return, the end of the present existence comes with death for the individual, which will be eternity for all people. Physical death, the immortality of the soul, comes with the waiting, then the judgement starts with God in command.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jan 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664117099

Robert Wyeth

After university I went to the London Bible College. I expected to prepare for missionary work, but the Lord didn’t want me to go there. I carried on as a project engineer, working in industry. I have been going to church for a number of years, and I have been an elder, so some things are good and the rest of them are bad. One friend commented to me, "After I am dead, I will be an angel. Floating around doing good for anybody." Really? Particularly so with the concept and themes of the Bible. You are children of God, welcomed in the kingdom of God, do you want to be an angel? Remember the good and bad angels. What will happen to the bad angels?

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

Summary

Death Comes To Us All

A Person Who Sins

A Person Dies

Laying Out the Body

A Stroke

Registering the Death

The Grieving Process

The Soul Goes Back to God

Where Does the Soul Come From?

Separation of the Soul

Am I Going to be an Angel?

Angels Will Carry the Soul

Sheol (Hebrew Word from the Old Testament)

A Division in Sheol

Warnings About Sheol

Hades (Greek word from the New Testament)

Separation in Hades

Jesus Descent into Hades

Walking Behind Jesus

Not Following Jesus

Belief in Jesus

The Church

Enoch and Elijah

Is There More Than One Heaven?

Poor Death Excuses

Sleep of the Soul

Conditional Immortality

Further Probation

Infants and the Mentally Ill

Return of Jesus

Jesus Will Return Again

Millennialism

Coming of Jesus

The Presence of Jesus

The Resurrection

Jesus Must Reign

The Judgement

Judgement is Just

Judgement for All

God Forgets Everything

The Consummation of all Things

Trees and Animals Again

A Timeline

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Most of the verses were taken from the NIV Bible:

The Holy Bible, New International Version ®, copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society.

Copyright 1985 by the Zondervan Corporation.

Anglicisation 1987 by the Hodder and Stoughton Limited.

This edition was first presented in Great Britain in 1987.

Other versions:

Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust, issued by the Tyndale House Publishers.

PREFACE

This is to highlight what will happen when we die and what will occur thereafter. There are a number of false doctrines, such as ‘When we are angels’, that many Christians possess in their minds. There are a lot of false teachings and prophets that we must be aware of and several books that are not really helpful.

My work is only to add a few points to explain what will happen. This is a more thorough book; I have added a lot of words to explain exactly what takes place. In addition, I have added what will happen to the soul when the body is dead. I changed the contents from ‘work on the rock’ to ‘church’ because it really develops in the church. I have added a section on Jesus reigning over the world and a timeline at the end of the book.

It occurred to me that God, in his wisdom, added another section each time to add to the list of what will come about. God was doing this to add to our understanding. So, I have corrected the verses and provided when the books were written or published. It makes for a fascinating study of the Bible.

The route through follows what the Bible said. I added the scriptures to make you understand exactly what the verses meant. Finally I didn’t add my own points. It was God speaking through me to you; I only kept to what the Bible teaches.

When you die, the soul lives on. The soul is an eternal being, like the angels. The soul doesn’t die; the body does. It is like the rooms in a house. When the body dies it will be left there, but the soul moves into another room for the waiting period. When the judgement comes, the soul goes out into another room: the great white throne. After the judgement: the soul moves into the eternal room, whether it is good or bad.

Before them a fire devours,

behind them a flame blazes,

before them the land is like the garden of Eden,

behind them a desert waste - nothing escapes them.

Joel ch.2 v3

The Lord will surely comfort Zion and

will look with compassion on all her ruins;

he will make her deserts like Eden,

her wastelands like the garden of the Lord.

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

Isaiah 51 v3

This land and that was laid waste

had become like the garden of Eden;

the cities that were lying in ruins,

desolate and destroyed; are now fortified and inhabited.

Then the nations around you that remain will know

that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed

and have replanted what was desolate:

I the Lord have spoken and I will do it.

Ezekiel ch.36 v35-36

SUMMARY

The systematic treatment of people who have died has been largely neglected in theology. Reformed theologians have not done justice to this subject, which is the very core of what will come in the future. Although some aspects of the question have received due emphasis, other parts have been neglected or forgotten.

From God’s saving grace to man’s eventual fall, what will happen to us at the end of time seems clear: death, waiting, judgement and the positioning of the righteous and unrighteous. As we grow older and get closer to death it is a good time to start thinking about what will happen.

Jesus Christ will return again. The kingdom of God is already present in a believer. Eternal life is there. The Spirit of God is already in the faithful who are waiting for their heavenly places. When we are dead, that will mark the eternal glories of the future.

It will be a mighty struggle and a crisis when the human race reaches its final chapter. The end is not something I would recommend to anyone with all the violence and struggles. The book of Revelation gives us an insight into the future. The end will reveal the final condition of both the righteous and the wicked, or the good and the bad.

Before Jesus Christ’s return, the end of the present existence comes with death for the individual, which will be eternity for all people. Physical death, the immortality of the soul, comes with the waiting, then the judgement starts with God in command.

DEATH COMES TO US ALL

A Person Who Sins

Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me if you know all this? Job ch.38 v16-18

Modern mankind has not been shown all that which starts the apparatus for life. For all the mechanisms and