I do not yet belong to a church, but I have gone to Jesus personally for life, and thus He teaches me. (1 John 2:27)
Jehovah's Witnesses misunderstand the meaning of death, believing that death is nothingness and there is no spirit that survives the body, no spirit to reunite to a body in the resurrection. It makes no sense to them then that Jesus could die and yet raise Himself from the dead.
What if spirits really do "survive" death of the body like Jesus indicated? "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28
Then it makes sense that when Jesus' body was dead, "the body without the spirit is dead" James 2:26. He was able to preach to the spirits in prison, 1 Peter 3:18-20 and able to resurrect His body as He said He would, and did. John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 21 But He spoke of the temple of His body.
Luke 24:39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me to have.”
But He was raised in spirit? Yes, are we not told to worship God in spirit? John 4:24 "they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit."
The Lake of Fire is the second death, when thrown into the Lake of Fire there is no chance of resurrection, because both body and spirit are destroyed. (Matthew 10:28, Revelation 20:14) and Hades is also cast into the Lake of Fire, as hades no longer has a use.
ReplyDeleteNow, before the final judgment, spirits are all awaiting the resurrection on the Last Day. John 28 Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice 29 and shall come forth — they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
The Watchtower Jehovah's Witnesses came into existence as false prophets to 'announce' Jesus second coming in 1874 then they switched it to October 6 1914.
ReplyDeleteThey fulfill St. Paul's warning of those who 'preach a different Gospel'.(Galatians 1:8)
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Danny Haszard
Resurrection = the raising up of a dead body
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