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Asleep in the grave waiting for the resurrection.

clearly you are a scorner of the Creator. angels play music in heaven. All the catholic saints are really Satanic gods and goddesses. Easter is for Ishtar/Artemis. Christmas for Mithra. The Pope wears a Satanic headdress of a fish mouth for the devil Dagon. Our spirits have no gender so their won't be any affairs with saints. Because the Pope declares someone a saint by no way mean the Creator of the universe considers them one. The creator decides who goes to heaven before or after judgment day. Judgment day will occur when mankind's time on earth is finished. Heaven is East. Hell is west. Right now hell is the mundane waiting room you are wondering about. After judgment day there will be a separation of damned to the left and blessed to the right accompanied by angels singing as they are escorted to paradise. Then Hell will no longer be boring but the scourge of the damned.

sheol/ hades is the most common place for the dead.......but not necessarily always...some men/women have been so evil that they can literally become demons after death.....I don't know how many times I have to say this...heaven is NOT the final destination for humans....mankind was made for the earth!! The new earth will be the home of the righteous humans after the 1000 year reign of Y'shua and the final annhialation of the dragon and all that is evil!

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.

The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death. John 11:11.

The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it? And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place? Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.

Celestial magazines??? Oh boy, they better have some sports illustrated, cuz it's gonna be a looooooong wait.

The bible says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. That means when a Christian dies, they are here one second and in heaven the next.

I feel like there is not but one answer here for this question and that is ( When people die their souls leave there body. The soul's go to a resting place called " Paradise " until the rapture then all that is there will go to heaven........

people are waiting in either spirit paradise or spirit prison, where they are seperated after a simpler judgement of their lives. there, they continue to learn and study the gospel and live among their family members that have also passed on.

I believe that they're in heaven, and Heaven becomes complete when all that persons loved ones who are christians are there.

Either they are in a peaceful sleep or they are in a tortured sleep in the grave - depending on their deeds and faith.