WE WILL TAKE IT WITH US

There is an old saying that goes: ‘You can’t take it with you when you go.’ And of course the thought is that when we die we take nothing with us in death. Like the other old saying: ‘You will never see a hearse pulling a trailer.’ When we die all physical things are left behind.

But there is one thing we will take with us when we go: our soul. The soul does not die. So where does the soul go when we die? Where is the place of the soul between death and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? It is often called ‘the intermediate state’ or what goes on between now and later. One commentator said, “When we say, “the intermediate state,” we are not speaking of “limbo” or “purgatory” or any such thing. We are speaking of that period in which the soul is in heaven and our remains await resurrection. That is the “intermediate state” in our personal eschatology (end times theology).”

Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel summarized it in their article “Eschatology” with brilliant concision and brevity:
“All who have died will come to life. This will be a bodily resurrection, a resumption of bodily existence of each person. For believers this will take place in connection with the second coming of Christ and will involve the transformation of the body of this present flesh into a new, perfected body (1 Corinthians 15:35-56). The Bible also indicates a resurrection of unbelievers, unto eternal death (John 5:28-29).”

Here he comes…ready or not.

“And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” Jesus