Death in the Bible

[hupo]

My mother passed away last month. She had been on an oxygen machine for over a year and we knew it was just a matter of time.

We had a year to "prepare" for it. During the year we prayed for her. We talked with her about God and Yeshua, about salvation....

I am not sure if she actually met Yeshua or was just making it look good for our sake..........

I feel she is now resting in peace.

What does the Bible have to say about this kind of situation? How does it tell us to "prepare"?

[tigger398]

My mom and dad both died. Time and prayer heals and God will call all the way to the end.

[EricH]

in situations like these, I trust in the goodness of God and know He will always do the right, loving, and just thing. I also claim the promise that all things work out for the good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose

[Openly Curious]

My mother passed away last month. She had been on an oxygen machine for over a year and we knew it was just a matter of time.

We had a year to "prepare" for it. During the year we prayed for her. We talked with her about God and Yeshua, about salvation....

I am not sure if she actually met Yeshua or was just making it look good for our sake..........

I feel she is now resting in peace.

What does the Bible have to say about this kind of situation? How does it tell us to "prepare"?

Hello hupo,

I am sorry to hear of the passing of your mother and I am glad you had time given in which you could pray and share the plan of salvation with your mother before she passed. I know the word says that every soul that confesses Jesus Christ come in the flesh is born of God believing that Jesus was indeed the Messiah the Saviour of the world and confessing that truth one can only place their faith in what the word has spoken concerning that matter.

The word says it is appointed unto man once to die after that the resurrection. Salvation is possible for someone all the way up to their very last breath leaves their bodies. Death can come at anytime as we have no promises of even our next moment in this life of ours so putting off accepting Christ as Saviour is to be unprepared at death. So to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and to serve him in newness of life is to be "prepared" at death. As long as their is life and breath still in a person there is still hope for that persons soul to be eternally saved.

OC

[hupo]

My mom and dad both died. Time and prayer heals and God will call all the way to the end.

Yes time and prayer with God's spirit, do heal.

I'm looking for scripture that refers to that.

in situations like these, I trust in the goodness of God and know He will always do the right, loving, and just thing. I also claim the promise that all things work out for the good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose

I know that claim is somewhere in scripture. I am not too fluent with the NT yet and can't find that verse.

Hello hupo,

I am sorry to hear of the passing of your mother and I am glad you had time given in which you could pray and share the plan of salvation with your mother before she passed. I know the word says that every soul that confesses Jesus Christ come in the flesh is born of God believing that Jesus was indeed the Messiah the Saviour of the world and confessing that truth one can only place their faith in what the word has spoken concerning that matter.

The word says it is appointed unto man once to die after that the resurrection. Salvation is possible for someone all the way up to their very last breath leaves their bodies. Death can come at anytime as we have no promises of even our next moment in this life of ours so putting off accepting Christ as Saviour is to be unprepared at death. So to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and to serve him in newness of life is to be "prepared" at death. As long as their is life and breath still in a person there is still hope for that persons soul to be eternally saved.

OC

I'm not denying what the word says, I just can't find the scriptures for it.

In the past I have had feelings about things the Bible said, which turned out to be just that.....my feelings, so I am looking for backup from the Word itself.

During the year we had to "prepare" I told myself I would look up what the Bible had to say on the matter.

This is why I opened the topic. So thank you for your responses, They are encouraging., and if you could point me to the verses involved I would be most appreciative.

David

[sheya joie]

in situations like these, I trust in the goodness of God and know He will always do the right, loving, and just thing. I also claim the promise that all things work out for the good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose

I know that claim is somewhere in scripture. I am not too fluent with the NT yet and can't find that verse.

That's Romans 8:28.

Another verse you might want to look at is:

1Th 4:13 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.

That was the verse that I found comfort in after my husband died suddenly of a heart attack. I knew he loved the LORD with all his heart, so I knew that he had gone home to Heaven.

[hupo]

in situations like these, I trust in the goodness of God and know He will always do the right, loving, and just thing. I also claim the promise that all things work out for the good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose

I know that claim is somewhere in scripture. I am not too fluent with the NT yet and can't find that verse.

That's Romans 8:28.

Another verse you might want to look at is:

1Th 4:13 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.

That was the verse that I found comfort in after my husband died suddenly of a heart attack. I knew he loved the LORD with all his heart, so I knew that he had gone home to Heaven.

Just read Rom 8:28, Thanks Sheya, that's what I was looking for

I'm sorry about your husband. I can see how 1TH 4:13 can bring you some comfort.

I needed to read verse 14 to 18 too, for the context. That makes it pretty clear.

Thanks Sheya and may God bless and heal your heart

[hupo]

In searching the Bible, on the said topic, I came across the following:

Gen 27:41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob"

Seems that mourning was an acceptable and well respected idea at the time. So much so that even hatred was set aside for the duration of the mourning period.

2Sa 11:27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

This was the other side of the coin. David had all but killed Uriah himself, to get Bat-Sheva, yet he waited till the mourning was over.

The fact that it displeased God is probably an understatement.

Est 4:3 And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Looks like mourning was used not just fater death but even before it. Trying to avoid it with prayer?

Psa 30:11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

It is God who can take away the heaviness in our hearts and fill it with Joy.

He is the one to turn to in times of anguish and pain.

Ecc 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.

Now this alludes me

I know I should get the context, but after readin around this verse, I am non the wiser for it.

Anyone know how this fits in with all the other verses of comfort?

Jer 9:17 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;

Wow! It sounds like they had professional mourers

Mostly women, who learned the art of mourning.....

Actually I do have an idea, we can see this kind of lamentation on tv at certain funerals

Skilled lamenters(?) are referenced here too.....

Amo 5:16 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

I can see I've been bringing scripture from the OT so not to neglect the NT here are some from there....

Jas (James?) 4:9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

I would say that "mourning" is used here in a different way. It's actualy used for humility. Sounds like laghter (as in "having fun"?) is concedered not humble.

The emphasis in this chapter is on humility and therefore when you mourn rather than laugh, you become humble.

Again this seems to contradict something in the previous scriptures.... lets see...... oh, yes...

Psa 30:11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

What gives here?

Rev 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away

I am just begining to study Revelations.

Until now I have to admit that Revelations seemed like John's acid trip ...

.... which it obviously isn't. It's just my ignorence showing

Yet the first 4 verses of chapter 21 give much hope to anyone who cares to read and identify with what the Lord has to tell us, through John in this case.

Maybe I should stop before I quote the whole Bible

God bless