Digging For Truth : Death is described as a sleep in Bible

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Deuteronomy 31: 16 "And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold thou shall sleep with thy fathers and this people shall rise up and go whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land. whither they go to be amongst them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them."

1 Kings 1: 21 "Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."

Job 7: 21 Th

Job 14: 12 - 15 T

Psalm 6: 4 - 5

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Psalm 115: 17 m

Psalm 146: 3 - 4 m

Ezekiel 18: 4 hnnnnn

Ecclesiastes 9: 5 - 6 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. ⁶Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Daniel 12: 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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Acts 7: "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." {see AA 101.1}

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Ephesians 5: 14 "for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said, "Wake up O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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1 Thessalonians 4: 13 - 18 hnnnnn

Death is described as a sleep in Bible

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