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From http://www.TrumpetCallofGod.com/pdfs/qastudy.pdf: pages 118-128 titled, "Q & A: Regarding Death, Demons and Spirits"

Question #1: What do the dead know?

Answer: NOTHING! The following verses and letters give us this clear answer.

The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered. Whatever they did in their lifetime - loving, hating, envying - is long gone. They no longer have a part in anything here on earth. (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6)

Whatever you do, do well. For when you go the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

The dead cannot sing praises to the Lord, for they have gone into the silence of the grave. (Psalm 115:17)

For in death, who remembers You? Who can praise You from the grave? (Psalm 6:5)

Like a cloud dissolving and disappearing, so he who descends to Sh’ol won’t come back up. He will not return again to his house, and his home will know him no more. (Job 7:9-10 CJB )

For the dead cannot praise you; they cannot raise their voices in praise. (Isaiah 38:18)

When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a moment all their plans come to an end. (Psalm 146:4)

[God speaking] The dead know not anything; all their thoughts have perished with them. All they, who lie in death, are asleep until the time of their resurrection, appointed unto the Son of Man. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “I am He Who Corrects and Disciplines Those He Loves”)

[God speaking] ...seek not after spirits, for they too are of evil. All people, both good and evil, sleep in death...they are in no way among the living, for they know nothing; all their thoughts have perished with them. And so they wait until the great and glorious day of the Lord, unto which it is appointed to raise all who sleep...first, all who belong to Him...and then later, those who remain unto the seat of judgment.
I say, to be absent from the body is to indeed be with the Lord, for all those who die in Christ will see Him in the blink of an eye, for those of death and sleeping know not the passage of time. They do not even know they have died, for they only know the end of life is near, then the beginning of their new life with Christ. So I tell you, there is indeed life after death, but during death there is most certainly not. If there was life during death and sleeping, then Christ would not be the First Fruits from death. And if He is not the first to be raised from death, then Christ did not die. Then sin and death have the victory, and all is lost. If all have victory over death as living spirits, then all are like Christ, and Christ’s penalty and victory is for not, and all are forsaken; and all will forever be part of the dead and dying, for the penalty of sin is death. But you say there is no death. Then you also say there is no God, and no Son He sent to save you from death. Then I ask you, where are you?...For all people are lost unto their own inevitable destruction. Know this, I have sent My Son to pay for your sin unto death, and raise Him again as the First Fruits from death. In this, all are made alive if they so choose the gift of Christ Jesus. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “Death and Awakening”)

[God speaking] There is no life in death; all sleep forever unless the Son calls you to awake. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “The Great I AM”)

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Question #4: Where do the dead go when they die?

Answer: They go to their grave until the time of the Resurrection.

When they are carried to the grave, an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb. (Job 21:32)

Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son, and they will rise again. (John 5:28-29)

[God speaking] And so they wait until the great and glorious day of the Lord, unto which it is appointed to raise all who sleep...first, all who belong to Him...and then later, those who remain unto the seat of judgment.
But in My mercy, I have made death as to sleep, so all those, who love Me and I love, do not suffer in death, but only that they close their eyes to this life and open them again to the Kingdom of God, which is in Christ Jesus. He, and He alone, will stretch out His hand and lift you from the grave in which all will sleep, save those who are awake at His coming, for He holds the keys to death and hades (sheol or the grave). (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “Death and Awakening”)

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Question #9: How does the Bible and the Letters from God and His Christ repeatedly refer
to death?

Answer: The dead person is “asleep” or “sleeping”.

Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.” (John 11:11)

Then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. (John 11:14)

When your days are over, and you rest with your fathers. (2 Samuel 7:12)

Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death. (Psalms 13:3)

We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. (I Thessalonians 4:14)

Many of those sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and abhorrence. (Daniel 12:2)

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed-- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10)

[God speaking] All they, who lie in death, are asleep until the time of their resurrection, appointed unto the Son of Man. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “I am He Who Corrects and Disciplines Those He Loves”)

[God speaking] For all those, killed at the hand of another, are but sleeping, and in the Day will be awakened by the Son, Christ Jesus. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “Where Darkness Lived a New Light Shines”)

[God speaking] All people, both good and evil, sleep in death...
And so they wait until the great and glorious day of the Lord, unto which it is appointed to raise all who sleep...first, all who belong to Him...and then later, those who remain unto the seat of judgment.
I say, to be absent from the body is to indeed be with the Lord, for all those who die in Christ will see Him in the blink of an eye, for those of death and sleeping know not the passage of time.
I have purposed all to die since Adam, for death is the penalty for sin. But in My mercy, I have made death as to sleep, so all those, who love Me and I love, do not suffer in death, but only that they close their eyes to this life and open them again to the Kingdom of God, which is in Christ Jesus. He, and He alone, will stretch out His hand and lift you from the grave in which all will sleep, save those who are awake at His coming, for He holds the keys to death and hades (sheol or the grave). (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “Death and Awakening”)

[God speaking] The people cry, ‘Disaster! Death and mourning!’ Do not mourn, for they only sleep but for an instant, then comes the face of the Lord, their Redeemer, the One who died and yet lives forevermore. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “Make Way For the Coming of the Lord”)

[God speaking] They need not sleep in death, for the penalty of sin is death. I have found no sin in them. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “To Whom Does the Kingdom of Heaven Belong?”)

[Jesus speaking] Drown the wicked and revive the upright... bring forth all who sleep...quench the thirst of those in the desert...cleanse and wash the mire from those who have become entrapped...bring up all who are downtrodden...make all, who are afraid, courageous for the Lord, teach them to swim...give the poor the riches of Heaven...go and feed those who hunger...and to all, fill with the joy of My coming, and cast away all their sadness forevermore.

[Jesus speaking] Come, all murderers...watch Me raise you, and all who sleep, from the grave. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “Come....Love Awaits You”)

[God speaking] There is no life in death; all sleep forever unless the Son calls you to awake. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - “The Great I Am”)

[God speaking] My Son did sleep in the lower parts of the earth...His tomb...for three days. By no means did He descend into the evils of man’s imaginings. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 4 - “Proclaim NOT the Hell of the Church of Men...In Their Word is No Mercy Found, Only the Makings of Satan”)

[God speaking] Commit yourself to the dead, and with the dead shall you sleep, having denied the Life sent to you, crucified and raised. Mary sleeps...she is dead, and her sepulcher remains with you to this day. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 4 - “To the Church, Who Is in the Midst of and Sits Upon the Seven Hills”)

[God speaking] Yea, even the dead who sleep, having lived unto the Lord, shall be gone from the earth. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 5 - “The Last Trump”)

[Jesus speaking] Rest, renewal by the tears of mourning, sleep in the lower parts of the earth, the tomb sealed...the grain of wheat, the Holy Seed, has fallen and died, planted in the earth for three days and three nights: (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 5 - “He is Risen!”)

[God speaking] Though they stumble, though they shall die, they shall not sleep...they shall arise to glory and abide in the glory of the Lord in His Kingdom... (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 5 - “Testimony”)

[Jesus speaking] Many of you shall die...let your hearts not be troubled, these things must be...but you shall not sleep. You shall surely pass from the shadow of death into the light of life. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6 - “The Witnesses Shall Prepare the Way of the Coming of the Son of Man, the Holy One of Israel”)

[God speaking] You shall die, yet you shall not sleep at all, having built a great city in the midst of great persecutions and sorrows, yet rejoicing shall only be heard, bringing many to the gates...a great city...a city, called Martyrdom. (Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6 - “The Prophets Are Sent Out, True and False...The High-minded Abased and Uplifted... The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord Has Come...Who Shall Stand?!”)

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