Michael Pearl answers: What happens when we die? Bible Questions - Episode 079 

My mom just passed away a week ago and she was a Christian. So thankful to know she is with Jesus until his return to earth. Please Pray for me and my family because my mom was the glue that held our family together. I miss her so very much and it’s hard for me dealing with her absence from my life. Thanks for this video!!! God Bless you brother.

I can't wait to meet the Lord. I just want to give him the biggest hug and say thank you and tell Him I love Him.

The soul returnes To God who gave it Body sleeps Good bible study sir. Keep up the Spreading of the Gospel ✝️✌

This man is a stick figure artist!! No but In all seriously this is a great video! God bless this ministry!

When we die, our spirit goes to heaven & our body 'sleeps'. When Christ returns, He reunites our Spirit with our glorified body.

Oh wow! Thank you so much! You explained that so well. Was so incredibly important for me to know that because my daddy who was a man of God just passed away.

BEST EXPLANATION I HAVE EVER FOUND. THANK YOU, BROTHER

Paul did not equate one thing withe other. It was his DESIRE. He knew he could not be with the Lord (Jesus) until the resurrection when everyone is brought back to life.

"To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord" is a misquote. That is what we want it to say. So that is the way we always misquote it. If Paul had said, "It is better to be absent from Chicago and to be present in Hawaii." would you be telling people that he said "If you're not in Chicago you are in Hawaii"?

This makes perfect sense to me now thank you for that 🙏🏼☺️

That was explicit answer. When we die our spirits go to be with the Lord. Now those dead and present with the Lord are disembodied spirits (without a body) In rapture what will happen is that those disembodied spirits will come with Jesus and take their spirits and be transformed. Those who are still alive when Christ comes will also be caught and be transformed.

Thanks .. I have been given multiple answers I just need the one true truth... Lately I was told ..we die we wait for rapture before going to heaven it's not either or yet unless you go to hell you will feel your death for eternity .. I'm grateful for whatever God chooses ❤️❤️🙏🏽🦋🐝

Thank you! Thank you! Thankyou! Oh my have we been needing that diagram on the chalk board! Bless you brother in Christ! Excellent!👍

This is why I don’t believe we go anywhere when we die. I believe death is like “sleep” (which is mentioned multiple times in the Bible) and if you understand sleep you understand that it’s like a split second to you. So when we die it’s as though we immediately wake up because we raise up. Wouldn’t make any sense to go to heaven when we die just to be resurrected back into our bodies. ALSO going to an eternal place when we die would suggest we’re immortal but as we know the Bible says we are not immortal and have to obtain eternity. Hope this makes sense 😌

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 , we sleep when we die. Why would we come down from heaven just to be pulled back to heaven right away?

Amen! Very well explained, I too needed that understanding, may the Lord continue to bless you and your ministry!

Our Glorified bodies will never decay.

This is the way that I have always believed. Brother James 🦉

Your video message blessed me indeed. Thank you for doing this great job.

That will be a weird time...the people left behind will be so confused or there will already be an “explanation” and they will think they somehow are safe because they didn’t disappear.....so strange

Wow thank you and God Bless

Thanks you very much pastor

Thanks for the verification..I was so confused. God bless

Thank you so much for clarifying this. This is one thing that I have been struggling with my soulmate passed away, and I always felt like His spirit was with God but so many teachers say the dead in Christ know nothing better understand now what Paul was talking about. Thank you so much.

Thank You for this video!!

A friend of mine was electrocuted when he was 3 or 4 and he said, he started floating up and threw the ceiling. He looked down and could see the roof of the house and he kept rising. He was resuscitated and that's all I remember. I think it may have been his first memory.

Awesome explanation!

Now I understand it . Thank you

My mom passed away on 25th Sept. She made a triumphant entry to be with Lord Jesus n I am following her life foot steps. I have surrendered ny life to Lord Jesus..

Does not make sense, either the dead sleep in the dust until Christ returns or are in Heaven immediately after death, if the latter; then no need for Christ to raise the dead at His second coming as they are already with Him, therefore i think the former stands to reason.

I feel more confused than I did before watching your video. My Mom, who "was" a Christian woman that lived the example of Jesus, just passed on the 1st of this month. I have NO DOUBT that she is with Jesus now. The verses that talk about the dead in Christ being "asleep" or whatever, make me confused because my feeble understanding of a Christian life after death is FULL! My siblings and family have been taking this one day at a time. My Mom was LITERALLY the backbone of our family and it's still currently unimaginable to have to live here without her. I will continue to wait until it's my time to pass and until then, I will praise God for my loved ones in heaven.

John's phone . I am ms. Dawn SMITH & I wanted to express my gratitude for your endearing & humerus nature

Good presentation

God explaination ❤️

How can this be explained Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.a If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?b 3When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. 4And you know the way to where I am going.”

I am facing issues of missing her but I am getting stronger in Lord Jesus. He is strengthening me slowly because I know my inheritance in Christ Jesus is Secured..one day I will go n see her in Heaven.

How wonderful Chirst coming will be for all who believe...it really puts our life in prospective...a short time here on earth...after his coming an eternity with Chirst...right now christians are living on earth with Chirst in there hearts or dead in Chirst and there souls are with him.

Makes no sense...dead in Christ ..rise to meet in the air...you're already in "the air". Why be judged if you're already in heaven

Bless

Our body is in the grave. Part of us is also in there asleep to the physical world until the resurection and judgement day. Yet, we are also consciously aware at the same time with God in either Paradise or Hades until the judgement seat judgements and the white throne judgements.

Totally Confused.

thank you

Spot on.

After death, then comes judgement ( Hebrews 9:27). Our souls are alive in spirit after we die, ( 1 Peter 4:6, Revelation 6:9, 2 Kings 13:21, Matthew 17:1,2.). Peace always in Jesus Christ our Great and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is True food and Blood True drink

Thank God! 😁

Masterful teaching and illustration! ✝️🕊🙏

Paul said, I would RATHER be absent from the body and present with the lord. That doesn't mean that he would be immediately present with the lord.

Dust you are and to dust you will return. (God). When you die, you go back to the ground.The soul (nephesh) is the Person/life in the OT. It dies. Ezek 18 :4.

We enter our dreams

The illusion of time is a physical representation. We think of time as having a beginning and an end. Time (phycically) grows from seconds to minutes to hours to days to weeks to months to years to decades to centuries etc etc etc. Spiritually, time is eternal. It's always forever and forever in energy alternating and generating His Power. The temporary physical embodiment is a domain for discovering the wonderful manifestations of the Love of and from God allowing the physical and spiritual to touch and be touched in the ways of kindness one to another. GLORY BE !

So which is it? Do we die leave our bodies and go be with Christ or are we dead in sleep waiting for Christ to call us up?

The spirit is the breath of Life. That is what is returned to the Lord.

To be absent from the body AND to be present w the LORD. A small point but can change the meaning you perspective. AND to be present… could be about the coming bodily resurrection.

Amen❤

I know where I am going , somewhere many cannot go ,

You do a good work brother. I love to hear your teaching on the word

"And God formed man out of the dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life and man came to be a living soul." Gen - 2 : 7 Man became a living soul after the breath of life was blown into the dust of the ground: The body + the breath of life is a living soul or a person: So when we die the "living soul" ceases to exist: The soul is not immortal. When we die the living soul ( which is us the person, dies). Eze - 18 : 4. While you may want it to be so; Paul was talking about a whole other thing, he was not supporting an immortal soul,

So why do people who say they have visions of God saw people in heaven/hell?

Yay

Please say the verse while saying the chapter I like proof !

Genesis 2:7 says, "Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul." My understanding is, based on this passage that our physical body plus our spirit (i.e. the breath of God) makes up a soul. Am I incorrect? RU WACH is used 377 times in the Bible ... 117 times as wind or air 33 times as breath 227 times as spirit

Now what happens to the unrighteous right after death until the second coming?

If I understand correctly from this sermon, our spirit will be with Christ and in the day of the Lord we will be given a new body, and this body will then be merged with our Spirit in the heaven? So we become complete human again with body and spirit

Sorry this is a little confusing. Are you saying that our resurrected bodies will meet our spirits whilst being caught up in the clouds at the second coming?

I am confused, 2 Corithians 5:6 " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home In the body, we are absent from The Lord:" then 2 Coerinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body , and to be present with the Lord. Where does he say " to be absent from the body IS to be present with the Lord"? Is he not talking about about our carnal nature blocking our connection with our LORD?

Wen we die as a righteous man our souls goes to heaven awaiting the second coming of Jesus Christ and wen we die as sinners our souls goes to hell awaiting judgement then after that, hell will be thrown into the lake of fire

Ezekiel 18:4

Actually, 2 Corinthians 5:8 doesn't say "...to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." It says: "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." That means he would RATHER be (or WISHES he was) absent from the body and present with the Lord. It doesn't mean that happens immediately after death. But I understand the confusion as I myself had been misguided for many years. John 11:24 says: Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the LAST day. And 1 Thes. 4:16-17 reads: 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (When... according to John 11:24? Right, at the LAST day. [All-caps are just for emphasis since I can't bold or italisize.]) 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Acts 24:15 reads: And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. (Notice there will be "a" [one] resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust). Finally, Genesis 2:7 reads: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man BECAME a living soul." Man was not "given" a soul. He "became" a living soul when God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. We don't "have" a soul. We "are" living souls. When we die, we sleep until the Lord returns. Jesus said of the Jairus' daughter that she was "asleep" in Mark 5:39. Same thing of Lazarus in John 11:11. I hope this helps and blesses someone. Or that it at least ignites a desire for deeper study of this subject before dismissing it as erroneous. 😊

To me it’s really common since the body dies the spirit goes to be with god the souls sleeps till god calls it home cuz it has to be judged for its works it says that in the Bible god comes back to get the soul the soul has to be judged that’s why he comes back to get it not the physical body the spirit goes to god that’s the breath of life that god gives to you I hope this clears up any confusion

What about the dead whose bodies were destroyed? Or after the bodies decay and turn back to dust do they just reassemble?

So the empty bodies will rise up to reunite with the souls?

God s Word is health to the flesh and Everlasting. Blueprint recipe prescription for salvation John15:5🔥🔥😇

What happens if you have been cremated?

People who think Heaven is the goal: The new earth, new Eden is the goal. Heaven is the realm of God. He wants to save his people and the world. Jesus said flesh and blood doesnt abide in Heaven. He's coming to remake the world.

when u die your asleep until Rapture.

2 Corinthians 5:8 is one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible. It doesn't say to be absent from the body "is to be" present with the Lord, rather it says "prefer rather" or "willing rather" to be present with the Lord which is referring to Paul having the desire and preferring to be with the Lord. The word that we translate to "rather" come from the Greek word "mallon". According to Strong's Greek concordance, from the context and grammatical usage of the word in this verse it is used as "preference or to prefer".

Is raprture before the second coming of Christ and whether Jesus knows when the rapture would take place or only father God knows the day and hour?

@:36, Paul did NOT say, "To be absent from the body, "IS" to be present with the Lord." Better re-read 2 Corinthians 5:8. Here's what Paul wrote. 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, "and" to be present with the Lord. If Paul had included an action verb such as the "IS" that SO many people keep misquoting and not reading correctly? It WOULD make a difference. The saddest part is that you have a BIBLE right in front of YOU. "IS" is nowhere in that entire scriptural verse.

I believe we go to be straight with Jesus after we die. I believe Jesus Christ is Lord I believe Jesus is the son of God.

May the father bless you , I love this ministry but to be honest , this question was not answered just stated 2 verses and it’s meaning but didn’t answer the context of the question?

So our dead bodies will rise up and reunite with our souls? Is that what you’re saying?

Way too rushed.... I think i am confused 🤷‍♂️ now. I knew it was going to go downhill when we were at the five minute mark of a six minute video, and we really haven’t got to the subject has a question.

why not just say "dead" does not mean "cease to be" it really means life somewhere else. How can you define death with life?

Amen,

ONCE WE DIE THE SPIRIT LEAVES THE BODY WHAT IS THE SPIRIT MADE OF GAS , ENERGY , AIR . PROTONS AND WILL WE BE ABLE TO TRACK THE SPIRIT WITH SUPER COMPUTERS ALSO WHY DO WE HAVE A SPIRIT AND A SOUL I CANT EVEN FIND ONE OF THEM

1 Thessolonians speaks of the Rapture, not the second coming

The Bible stated that the died know nothing and when u die the Spirit does go back to God but it about the breath of life meaning he gave us life and when we die he gets it back but our souls which are not immortal which not verse in the Bible states that are sleep until judgement day u either will be destroyed or be in heaven could what the purpose of having people burning in hell forever that would mean they are still alive and sin still exist and the universe and must be destroyed in front of everyone who ever lived to God can show his mercy ...and yes the Bible does talk about how people burn in every lasting fire that doesn’t go out day or night but it talking about the end of existence where we are well should be highly thankful for existing that the biggest blessing but the reason y the Bible talk about hell I’m that way is because people that are not going are going to be the worse pain they will every feel knowing they won’t go see God and his creation ....and missing out because of choices sometimes we all make

Towards the end of the presentation you mentioned the second coming of Christ, well the second coming is not the same as the rapture of the church, so your making two different events as one. The Rapture of the church and the second coming of Christ. You say that our souls are asleep in heaven and then he brings us down at the rapture of the church? Confused.

But most peoples dead bodies will have rotted away turned to dust or had been cremated so there is no body in the ground so some of what he said dont make sense to me.

The book of acts and stephen.

MICHAEL!!! BLESSINGS TO YOU!!! YOU COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT BETTER!!! YOU SURE KNOW HOW TO INERPRET THE BIBLE WELL. I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN LIFE AFTERDEATH. WE HAVE A SPIRITUAL BODY WHEN WE DIE. LIKE PAUL SAID,,,''TO BE OUT OF THE BODY IS TO BE WITH THE LORD.'' AMEN!!!!!

The Bible actually says, “To be absent from the body AND to be present with the Lord.” Please state the scripture correctly.

RATHER meaning prefer to be absent from the body and present with the lord we will all sleep until the coming of Christ no conscious just sleep we will not be with the Lord until we are judged

Paul never called brothers christians, romans did.

Why aren't these questions being answered?

So much wrong with this teaching, but let's start with the misquoting then application of the 2 Cor 5:8 verse that does NOT say to be absent from the body IS TO BE present with Christ! That's not just taken out of context, but it is a misquote. Paul is discussing that he would rather be absent from the body AND with Christ than to remain in this corruptible body. It is not an either/or statement. Paul's constant message and emphasis was completely on his favorite topic: the Resurrection because he knew that was when he would put on the incorruptible and be with Christ, finally!

we ARE a spirit (God breathed into the man and he BECAME A LIVING SOUL). we HAVE A BODY.

Who is Paul? You mean Saul of Tarsus. What did Jesus say???

This was all biblical and accurate. The one exception is there is no such thing as a "secret rapture" by which Christians are snapped out of human history (e.g. the "Left Behind" series) and then the Tribulation begins. This strange notion was developed by the Plymouth Brethren and John N. Darby in England in the mid-1800s. It is a modernist teaching. There is only one Parousia (return of Christ) at the end of the age and at that point all will be resurrected (righteous and unrighteous, as taught by Jesus) to face judgment and everlasting life. The righteous will enjoy glorious everlasting life and the unrighteous will be sent into everlasting separation from God.

I see it a different way. This video assumes there are only 2 places you can be, the earth and heaven. The Hebrews actually believed there were 3 places you could be. The earth, sheol/the grave, and heaven. That is why Psalm 139:8 says: If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. That is also why Saul had to awake the resting Samuel to ask for advice. He was asleep in Sheol waiting resurrection. So the bible says, even if you rest in sheol while you await the resurrection, God is there with you, even though the new Kingdom has not yet come. God can be in all 3 at the same time actually in the same way He can hear everyones prayers at the same time. God is not confined to one time or place. I think he simply means the quicker He does his job on earth, the quicker He can live with God in the new kingdom. I would imagine the grave rest the bible speaks of is like our human rest, in that it goes by very quickly.