Just Before Dying?
Heading off to Heaven Q: I have a question that's been on my mind since I lost a believing relative. Is it possible that before someone souls leaves their body, that "God is there" and the person is aware of of Him before they go home to be with the Lord? A: God is always in the believer, and Scripture tells us absent from the body, present with the Lord.(1) At the moment of instant death we are in God's presence in eternity. It seems it will he like "in the twinkle of an eye" (like at the rapture event). Once the dying do step through deaths door into eternity, Scripture tells us, once there the former things are gone, passed away(2) and he will dry every tear(3), we won't think about the former things from the life in this sin stained place.(4) However prior to going to Heaven we see at the resurrection of Christ, the souls who were in the paradise side of sheol came up behind with Christ and were allowed to wander in town a short bit.(5) Highly ...