Hmmmm you must be using the Joseph Smith Version...
KJV - Hebrews 9:27 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
NASV - 27And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
NIV - 27Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
NKJV - 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
ESV - 27And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
I can go on and on here, unless of course its your belief that Joey never died?????
If so, I have a great deal on swamp land in Arizona......
1 Peter 3 (Christ preached unto the spirits in prison.)
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
1 Peter 4 (Why gospel is preached unto the dead—)
1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
There will be a thousand years of peace before the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord
The body sleeps but the spirit is very much alive.