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14 Bible Verses About Seeing Dead Loved Ones

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  • 1 Thessalonians 4:17 says believers alive at the Lord’s coming will be “caught up together with” those who have died, and the next verse tells the church to “encourage one another with these words.”
  • David’s “I will go to him, but he will not return to me” (2 Samuel 12:23) is his answer to attendants who asked why he stopped fasting once his child had died.
  • Mary Magdalene took the risen Jesus for the gardener until he said her name (John 20:16), and the two disciples at Emmaus recognized him when he broke bread (Luke 24:31).
  • Jesus told the Sadducees that at the resurrection people “will neither marry nor be given in marriage” (Matthew 22:30), and in the same answer called God “not the God of the dead but of the living.”
  • The Westminster Confession teaches that at death all souls return immediately to God and those of the righteous are received into the highest heavens; Seventh-day Adventist theology holds that the dead are unconscious until the resurrection.

Believers will see again those who died in Christ: when the Lord comes, the dead will rise and the living will be caught up “together with them” to meet him. Paul writes this in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, and David says of his dead son, “I will go to him” (2 Samuel 12:23). On recognition, the evidence is the resurrection accounts and the Transfiguration. The risen Jesus was known when he said “Mary” (John 20:16), when he showed his hands and…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter 32, “Of the State of Men after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead”: at death all souls, “which neither die nor sleep,” return immediately to God, and those of the righteous are “received into the highest heavens.” opc.org/wcf.html

Wikipedia. “Seventh-day Adventist theology”: among the church’s distinctive teachings, “the state of unconsciousness in death.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_theology

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