Jeff is. You literally cease to exist. Time. It’s nothing like sleeping.
In the resurrection will be aware of any passage of time between the resurrection and the day they actually died. It will be instantaneous. Kind of like when I went under for surgery, the doctor told me to take a deep breath, and I did. He then said to take another breath, and I did, and as I exhailed I was waking up in the recovery room over an hour later. That’s how I see it.
To quote crowder, changed my mind. 😁
The Catholic Church teaches a doctrine called the Communion of the Saints. The souls of the dead are alive and conscious in Heaven as they await the bodily resurrection. They even pray for us.
How else do you explain Revelation 6:9-11.
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.