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Some People Will Say, How Are The Dead Raised? With What

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Some people will say, How are the dead raised? With what moreover body? 36 fool, what you sow not does come to life. If not it dies; 40 There are earthly bodies and there are spiritual bodies. 42 So also the resurrection of the dead.
44 The body seeded in corruption is raised in spiritual body. 45 The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 47 The first man was earthy: the second man was the Lord from heaven. 48 There are the earthy, and there are the heavenly. 49 Those in Christ were borne the image of the earthy, but shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Accepting Jesus as savior is a graduate into the heavenly, same as Christ Jesus. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood …show more content…

This was not heaven or the lake of fire or the final place of judgement, but a place where the soul and spirit were either at rest or in a place of torment awaiting final judgement. The saints of old were carried away by the angels to Abraham 's bosom Luke 16:22 waiting for their redemption through Jesus Christ. He also told the thief on the cross; today you will be with me in paradise. Luke 23:43. Unbelievers die and are buried, but are in torment of fiery Sheol far away from Abraham 's bosom. Luke 16:22
In Luke 16 a man Lazarus and the rich man both died and the rich man went into torment and Lazarus went to a place of comfort and there was a great gulf between them. But both were separated from earth.
Through a wizard Saul summoned Samuel out of the lower place of rest and Samuel said "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" 1 Samuel 28:15
Jesus is speaking in John 5:28. Marvel not at what I say: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
After Christ’s redemption for the saints of old and us, they were taken to paradise with Him and at the same time the unbelieving and fearful, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, were in their part taken to the lake which burns with fire and brimstone:

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