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- Question 41.
- What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
- Answer:
- The souls of believers are at death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory, and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
( Hebrews 12:23; Philippians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Luke 23:43; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; Isaiah 57:2; Job 19:26 ) - Question 42.
- What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the Resurrection?
- Answer:
- At the resurrection, believers become raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoyment of God to all eternity.
( Philippians 3:20,21; 1 Corinthians 15:42,43; Matthew 10:32; 1 John 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ) - Question 43.
- What shall be done to the wicked at death?
- Answer:
- The souls of the wicked shall at death, be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection and judgement of the great day.
( Luke 16:22-24; Psalm 49:14 ) - Question 44.
- What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgement?
- Answer:
- At the day of judgement, the bodies of the wicked, being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels forever.
( Daniel 12:2; John 5:28,29; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Matthew 25:41 )
See: 1689 London Baptist Confession, Chapter 31 : Of the State of Man After Death and of the Resurrection of the Dead and Chapter 32: Of the Last Judgement
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