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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   "And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not [be].

  Job 14: 12 - 15    So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.   [13]   O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!  [14]    If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.  [15]    Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.  

 

   Psalm 6: 4 - 5    "Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.  (v. 5 )  For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?   

  Psalm 13: 3  "Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;                       

           

   Psalm 115: 17    The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.                                      

 

   Psalm 146: 3 - 4    Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.  [4]   His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 

 

   Ezekiel 18: 4     Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

 

   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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   Luke 8: 52    And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.                            

 

   John 11: 1-14    "Now a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.  ( v. 2 )  (It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.  ( v. 3 )  Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.  ( v. 4 )  When Jesus heard [that], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.  ( v. 5 )  Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.  ( v. 6 )  When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.  ( v. 7 ) Then after that saith he to [his] disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.  
( v. 8 )   His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?  ( v. 9 )  Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. ( v. 10 )  But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.  ( v. 11 )   These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.  ( v. 12 )  Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.  ( v. 13 )   Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.  ( v. 14 )  Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.         

                          

   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}

                              

   Acts 13: 35 - 39         "Wherefore he saith also in another [psalm], Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.  ( v. 36 )    For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:  (v. 37)  But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.  ( v. 38 )   Be it known unto you therefore, men [and] brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:  ( v. 39 )   And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."    [ Also Acts of the Apostles, 172.1 ]  

 

   1 Corinthians 15: 51 - 55    Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,  ( v. 52 )  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ( v. 53 )  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.  ( v. 54 )  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.  ( v. 55 )  O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory?  

                                         

   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."

                                         

   1 Tim     hn         

                              

   1 Thessalonians 4: 13 - 14    But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  (14)   For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. [v. 15 - 17 explains it]  

       

                           

   1 Thessalonians 5: 10      [Christ] "Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him"

 

 

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