From Empty Tomb To Eternal Home, What Happens When We Die

FoxNews.Com ^ | Max Lucado

[luvie]

Who in your life "just left?" When the breathing of your spouse ceased, the beating heart in your womb stopped, or the beep of your grandmother’s monitor became a flat-lined tone, what happened in that moment?

And what will happen to you in yours? Barring the return of Christ, you will have one… a last breath, a final pulse. And… then what? What will we be after we die? What will happen? Answers vary.

Nothing, some people say. We will decay and or disintegrate. Death is a dead end. Our works and reputation might survive, but not us.

Or, we become part of the universe. Eternity absorbs us like a lake absorbs a raindrop. We return to what we were before we were what we are… we return to the cosmic consciousness of the universe.

Christianity, on the other hand, posits a new, startling idea. "Death has been swallowed up in victory" (1 Cor. 15:54 NIV).

This is the Christian hope. This hope is verified by the Easter miracle, that stunning moment we celebrate as Easter. Do you know this miracle?

[luvie]

Have a blessed Easter!

[left that other site]

HE IS RISEN!

HALLELUJAH!

☔️🌸”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)🌸☔️

ML/LTOS

[Frank Drebin]

To those who follow and love Christ, to be absent from the body is to be present with The Lord. He has conquered sin and death. "The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

[Nateman]

My Mom passed away in 2011. Many years later while lying in bed I heard her calling out my name. ‘What!’ I said in a questioning annoyed way. She said ‘Don’t be like that!’. Then I woke up. That is my life beyond the living moment of note.

[fidelis]

A blessed Easter to you too, luvie! Thanks for all you do here.

[Organic Panic]

I’m not much of a woo woo kind of guy but I have had two visitations like that too. Nothing crazy. Just a simple looking over like “your room is a mess” and a simple reassurance that everything is just fine. And then nothing ever since.

[luvie]

P I N G

[Nateman]

The most profound dream I had:

I was an atheist at the time. I'm riding a bike when I see Jesus sitting under a gazebo with a few other people . Being a wise guy like I was at the time I'm thinking people need Jesus like a fish needs a bicycle . The wheels are slightly warped so I roll to Jesus and ask what kind of tool I need . He says tool 181.

For many years this answer confused me. Then I had an epiphany. He meant turn your life around 180 degrees than go one more degree beyond that.

[metmom]

When my m-i-l passed in the hospital, she was barely conscious, but at the last second, looked up and lifted her hands up as if someone were reaching down to pull her up.

She did it twice, then put her arms down and breathed her last.

It still gives me goosebumps remembering it.

[ducttape45]

My mom passed away last year, May 31. She was pretty comatose until the end. I wish I had been there but it happened at around 5:30 AM in the morning so she was not with family members when she left to be with Christ. I got to see her the day before so I was able to talk to her though I don't know how much she understood. I told her we would all be ok and that her race was over. It was time to put her burdens down and go be with Jesus, and I honestly believe she was waiting for someone to encourage her in that way.

My dad, on the other hand, went to be with the Lord in a manner in keeping with his character back in 2019. He was home and my mom had just gone to lay down and rest after being with him for 12 hours straight after he came home from the hospital. He was chatting with my younger brother and he asked him how the Cubbies did. My brother said the Cubs won, and he said "Oh, that's good, that's good." Then he breathed his last. Yep, that was my dad. Always the diehard Cubs fan.