CONTENTS

PREFACE
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CHAPTER ONE - 

THE INTERMEDIATE STATE
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CHAPTER TWO - 

THE TERM SOUL IS APPLIED TO THE ANIMAL CREATION IN GENERAL
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CHAPTER THREE - 

THE ORIGINAL TERMS NESME, RUAH, PSYCHE, AND PNEUMA, TRANSLATED 'SOUL' AND 'SPIRIT' MEAN BREATH OF LIFE
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CHAPTER FOUR - 

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT MAN, THE SOUL, AS WELL AS THE BODY DIES
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CHAPTER FIVE - 

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT MAN IS DEPENDENT UPON HIS RESURRECTION FOR ALL FUTURE EXISTENCE
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CHAPTER SIX - 

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THE SAINTS ARE TO WAIT FOR FUTURE GLORY UNTIL JESUS COMES TO BE GLORIFIED IN HIS KINGDOM
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CHAPTER SEVEN -

​BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN THAT THE INHERITANCE OF THE SAINTS IS 'RESERVED IN HEAVEN'  IT IS SUPPOSED THAT BELIEVERS GO THERE AT DEATH TO GAIN IT
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CHAPTER EIGHT - 

THE SAINTS WILL NOT BE PRESENTED BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF GOD OR UNTO JESUS CHRIST UNTIL THE RESURRECTION FROM THE GRAVE
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CHAPTER NINE - 

THE APOSTOLIC EXHORTATIONS ARE ENFORCED, NOT BY THE CONSIDERATION OF ANY JUDGMENT AT DEATH, BUT BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD
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CHAPTER TEN - 

THE APOSTLES JOYFULLY EXPECTED TO MEET THEIR BRETHREN, NOT IN THE INTERMEDIATE STATE, BUT AT THE COMING OF CHRIST
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CHAPTER ELEVEN - 

MANY LONG SINCE DEAD, WILL NOT KNOW THEIR DOOM UNTIL CHRIST COMES
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CHAPTER TWELVE - 

OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED
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NOTE

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CHAPTER TEN

THE APOSTLES JOYFULLY EXPECTED TO MEET THEIR BRETHREN, NOT IN THE INTERMEDIATE STATE, BUT AT THE COMING OF CHRIST
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E are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours (when?) in the day of the Lord Jesus.” 2Co 1:14  1Th 2:19. “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? The inspired writers express no hope of meeting their brethren in the intermediate state. By the spirit of truth, they teach us, that our departed friends have gone not to heaven, but, “to the grave,” into “silence,” and “darkness”-that they have “fallen asleep,” and “shall not awake until the heavens be no more.” They plainly teach that their minds, as well as their bodies, are, at present, under the dominion of death-that they “know not any thing,” and that their thoughts are perished. Yet, to them, the simple fact, that when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory, was an anticipation perfectly adequate to fill their most enlarged desires. Those who loved the Savior, although they had not seen him and had no expectation of seeing him until his second coming, “yet believing” in his bright appearing, rejoiced “with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”  1Pe 1:7,8 13 . The prayers of the discerning saints imply that the intermediate state is a condition of unconsciousness. 

 Ps 6:4,5. “Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: Oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?”  Ps 88:10,11. “Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?” Now if David expected to praise God with “noble powers,” at death, he would never have offered such a plea for his recovery. How evident it is that he understood death to be the “destruction”of all those powers which are employed in the praise of God. So Hezekiah,  Isa 38:16,19. “So wilt thou recover me, and make me to live-for the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down to the pit cannot hope for they truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee as I do this day.” The popular theory is the reverse of all this, and contradicts Hezekiah, assuring him that if he had died, he would have praised God better than he did that day. If these saints were going immediately to join the choir of celestial worshipers, their language could not have been more inappropriate. What modern christian, who believes in the separate existence of the soul, ever uses such pleas for recovery as did David and Hezekiah? It is not to be affirmed that this is the language of ignorance. It is not the language of doubt or uncertainty. Their words contain positive assurances of the real state of the dead. Our Savior confirms the same truth,  Joh 3:13. “No man hath ascended up to heaven.” Peter said of David,  Ac 2:34, that he “is not ascended into the heavens.”

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