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 FIVE

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT MAN IS DEPENDANT UPON HIS RESURRECTION FOR ALL FUTURE EXISTENCE
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N addition to the testimony already considered, let us hear “the faithful witness.”  Mt 22:31,32. “But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.” What is the argument here? Certainly it is, that the dead must rise, because God is not the God of the dead, as he would be if the dead rise not. But this is not true, if Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are living in glory. In this case God is the God of the living although the dead rise not. Our Savior predicates their living, entirely on their resurrection from the grave; consequently they have no life at present. 

Paul rested all his hope of future life on the same basis.  1Co 15:32. “If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we die.” Would it be no advantage for such a spiritual and independent intelligent subsistence, as the human soul is supposed to be, to enjoy the glory of God forever, although the dead body should never rise? Do not many suppose that such a state would be more advantageous without the body than with it. 

 1Co 15:17,18. “If Christ be not raised-then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.” The apostle’s argument is, that if Christ has not risen, there will be no resurrection of the saints, and if so, they have perished to exist no more. But how can this be if they possessed immortal souls? To say that an immortal soul can perish is a contradiction in terms. 

 Joh 6:39. “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” If Jesus Christ does not raise his saints from the grave, he will lose them, but this is not true, if their souls never die. 

 Col 3:3,4. “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, THEN shall ye also appear with him in glory.” 

The believer’s life is indeed secured by divine promise, but it is hid, concealed, until Christ “shall appear” the second time.

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