Study 6: State of the Dead

Study Guide Highlights

Genesis 2:7 - Creation of Nephesh- Creature

Genesis 2:19 - God formed beasts of the ground

Genesis 7:20-23 - Destruction of all in whose nostrils was Neshamah (Breath)

Rev. 16:3 - Every living psuche (creature) died in the sea

Ecc. 3:19-21 - They have all one ruach (Breath-Spirit), no preeminence

Ecc. 12:7 - Dust returns to earth, ruach (Breath-Spirit) returns to God who gave it

Psalms 104:29-30 - Take away ruach, they die; send forth ruach, they are created

Job 27:3-4 - All the while my neshamah is in me, and the ruach of God is in my nostrils

Genesis 2:16-17 - Thou shalt surely die (dying, thou shalt die)

Genesis 3:4-5 - Ye shall not surely die, but shall be as Gods

Genesis 3:22-24 - Adam separated from the tree of life

Ezekiel 18:4 - The nephesh (Creature- Being) that sinneth, it shall die

I Tim. 6:11-16 - God only hath immortality

Romans 2:5-8 - We seek for glory, honor, immortality, eternal life

Ecc. 9:5-6,10 - The dead know not anything

Psalms 115:17 - The dead praise not the Lord

Psalms 6:5 - In death is no remembrance of God or thanks to God

Psalms 146:3-5 - At death, a man's thoughts perish

Job 14:10-15 - I will wait until my change come

Job 17:13 - If I wait, the grave (she'ol) is my house

John 11:11-14 - Jesus likens death to a sleep

Acts 2:29 - David is dead and buried

Acts 2:34 - David is not ascended into the heavens

I Cor. 15:16-26 - The last enemy destroyed is death

Isaiah 26:19-21 - The dead shall live at the Lord's coming

Psalms 17:15 - I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness

I Cor. 15:51-58 - We are changed at the trump

Romans 6:23 - The wages of sin is death