Secrets from Beyond The Grave by Perry Stone

Author:Perry Stone [Stone, Perry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Strang Book Group
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

The Waiting Period for the Resurrection

When I came to the full realization that a person's soul and spirit continue to live outside of the body at death and that there are holding places, one in Sheol (hell) and the other in the third heaven (paradise), I began to imagine what this intermediate state is like for those who have departed--especially those who have gone to be with the Lord.

As a young child, I visualized people floating around in the atmosphere like ghosts, blanketed in a white, misty vapor and sort of hovering over some special location in heaven. I did not visualize them with clothes but saw them in my mind as covered with light. I didn't think they actually communicated but lived in this intermediate zone until the resurrection. As a teenager the image changed, and I realized they could communicate and actually lived in a realm similar to what we have on Earth, except in a realm of perfection.

Paul makes it clear that if he were absent from his body he would be "present with the Lord" (2 Cor. 5:9). We know from the incident in Luke 16 that both the rich man in hell and the beggar in Abraham's bosom had all five senses in the afterlife. Now the righteous are dwelling in the land of light in the third heaven in the paradise of God. Paul wrote that "to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Phil. 1:21). He wrote that to die and be with Christ was far better, but to remain in the flesh and minister to the saints was more needful at the time (vv. 22-24). Certainly Paul did not believe that at death his soul went to sleep in the grave until the resurrection. If our souls slept when our bodies do, it would be impossible to experience a vision or to have a spiritual dream. As God pours out His Spirit at the time of the end, the "old men shall dream dreams" and the "young men shall see visions" (Joel 2:28).

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