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John 8:51
Our Lord Jesus said"I tell you the truth if anyone keeps my word he will never see death
[/FONT][/FONT]John 8:52 The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.'
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This tells me directly from the our Lords lips that when we die we will never see death This doesn't mean the second death only(spiritual death) this means from one state to the next without one of unconsciousness, but the continuation in a conscious state immediately after leaving our physical state..
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Mathew 22:31
[/FONT][/FONT]Jesus said "But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God:'
Mathew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' He's not the God of the dead but of the living."
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2 Corinthians 5:17[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]John 8:36
say's "so if the Son sets you free,.......( then we free from the bonds of death.)
[/FONT][/FONT]So even though the physical death of Lazarus "prefigured" the Resurrection of God's people in Christ, truly, even Lazarus' First Resurrection was the moment He was saved. That is indeed why, when Martha told Christ Lazarus would be raised at the resurrection at "the last day," Christ responded by correcting her:
John 11:23-26
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Ephesians 2:5-6
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved by faith in Christ and not by works of our own)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"
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Death is state of unconsciousness and not for those who keep His word ,but for those who die in their sin. Their resurrection is appointed after the 1000 year reign with our Lord as priests.
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