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..., like the issue of soul sleep

I wonder where I got THAT from?

Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.”

HMMMmmm...

From the link you likely did not read:

2. SOUL SLEEP

~~SDAs~~ELSIE denies ~~deny~~ that believers on death go to heaven. ~~They~~ Elsie say that believers go to soul sleep in the grave until Christ’s return. JW’s, Christadelphians and other false groups believe this error.

The main verses disproving the soul sleep error are:

1. Philippians 1:23 — “I am in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and TO BE WITH CHRIST; which is far better.”

2. 2 Corinthians 5:8 — “To be absent from the body (death), and to be PRESENT WITH THE LORD.” (in heaven)

3. Hebrews 12:1 — “We are surrounded by so great a cloud of WITNESSES”. (The departed believers discussed in Hebrews 11)

4. Hebrews 12:23-24 — “The heavenly Jerusalem ... the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven and to the SPIRITS of just men made perfect”.

5. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 — “Them also which sleep in Jesus will God BRING WITH HIM”. This means that when Christ returns to resurrect believers bodies at the second coming, He brings our spirits and souls with Him from heaven

6. Revelation 6:9-10 — “I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God ... they cried with a loud voice saying...”

7. Isaiah 14:9-10 — “Hell from beneath ... stirs up the dead for thee. All they shall speak and say to thee.”

8. Ezekiel 32:21 — “The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell ...”

9. Ezekiel 32:30-31 — “The Zidonians which are gone down with the slain ... Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword.”

10. Luke 16:19-31 — the rich man and Lazarus who had died spoke to each other.

These 9 scriptures show soul sleep of SDAs and our friend Elsie to be false.