Lesson for June 24, 2023
AFTER DEATH, WHAT?
Scripture Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4.
Memory Verse: 1 Thessalonians 4:16.
- What does the Bible say death is? 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 14.
Note. When one is asleep he is wholly lost to consciousness; time goes on unmeasured, and the function of mental awareness is suspended for the time being.
- Where do the dead sleep? Daniel 12:2.
- How long will they continue to sleep in the dust of the earth? Job 14:10-12; 1 Corinthians 15:42-58.
- For what does Job say he will wait? Job 14:14.
- Where will he wait for this change? Job 17:13.
- What did King Hezekiah write concerning death and the grave? Isaiah 38:18, 19; Psalms 30:9.
- What about the thoughts of those who are dead? Psalms 146:4; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10.
- Are the dead able to praise the Lord? Psalms 115:17.
- Is there any remembrance in death and the grave? Psalms 6:5.
- What is further said of those that die in the Lord? Revelation 20:6.
