Question: The dead know nothing..."For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten" appears in Ecclesiastes 9:5 of the Bible. The verse continues, "Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun".
When you die, you're gone. There is no special place, that's why you should not take life for granted.
What do the dead know?
Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!
The dead body of the one who has died know nothing, except it gets decomposed fast enough to become dust and ashes (Jam 2:26; Isa 26:19; Eccl 12:7). The spirit/soul of those who have died with Christ will know all things because they will be with God in the New Jerusalem in their spirit and soul (2 Cor 5:8; 1 Cor 13:12), the unbelievers soul/spirit in Hades prison are kept until the White Throne Judgment takes place (Luke 16:23; Rev 20:11-15). In the White Throne Judgment, all unbelieving souls will be judged by their works, and will be sent to eternal lake of fire where they will be in eternal torment, where the worms does not die and fire is never quenched (Mark 9:42-48).
The dead who are saved will know everything just like as they have been known by God (1 Cor 13:12). But the unbelieving dead only know that they should have repented when they were alive on earth, and they will also desire the living relatives of them to repent and not come to hell fire like them, out of which they cannot go out.
But for the unbelievers, once they enter in to the Hades prison torment, their knowledge of why they were there and what should have been done by them when they were on earth, will make them to realize in torment, how they should have repented of their sins to turn towards God from their own sinful works to embrace the righteousness of God that can be received by all those who believe Jesus the Christ who died for them all to be saved from sin and hell fire (Luke 16:22, 23; Matt 4:17; Eph 2:8-10; John 3:16). But seeking to repent from hell will be too late by then, which should have been realized by them when they were alive on earth (Luke 16:24, 26, 27-28, 30, 31; 2 Cor 6:1, 2; Eccl 12:1, 6).
Even after Jesus the Christ rose from the dead to make people get saved from sin and hell fire that is ahead of them all (Luke 16:31), those who despise the Word of God from the Bible now, even if someone alive goes to Hades to declare salvation, these unbelievers will not repent from the heart because of their sin nature that has got deposited within them eternally by their own choice that has taken them to hell fire condemnation by then (Heb 9:26, 27, 28; John 3:17, 18, 19, 20, 21).
Yes no one should ever take life for granted, because in this unpredictable and unstable world around us, each day alive is a gift of God to enjoy and be thankful to God who has given it to us (1 Tim 6:17). But at the same time, for every human, the most important thing in this life is to think about the life to come, and by receiving salvation from God through believing Jesus Christ, we should start to make preparations for the life to come now itself (Amos 4:12). As we do not know when we might die and have to appear before our Creator God to give account of how we have lived and used this life before him. So that if we have chosen to walk away from Him by continuing in our own evil heart of unbelief (Heb 3:12), we end up alone by our own choice in hell fire torment as it will continue eternally because of our sin nature that we as the sons of first Adam has inherited from him (Eccl 12:13, 14; Rom 3:23; 5:12; 6:23; 1 Cor 15:22, 45, 47).
SO REPENT NOW, for it is the given TIME OF SALVATION FOR EVERY HUMAN like us all FROM GOD TO BELIEVE AND BE SAVED!
Glory to God!
Much Blessings...
Much Blessings...
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