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… The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice (John 5:28).
Read the above words again, and then stop a minute and answer the question, “Who are in the graves?”
According to the common teaching, there are no people in the graves. They are either alive in heaven or in hell. If people are there already, what need is there for a resurrection, or a judging?
Something doesn’t fit here; and it is not God’s Word, it is man’s teaching that doesn’t fit. The problem is that people deny the fact of death. One cannot read the Hebrew Scriptures without running into verses that tell the state of the dead.
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence (Psalm 115:17).
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing … (Ecclesiastes 9:5).
Those who have died are still in the graves. There has to be a resurrection to make them alive, and this is not immediately when one dies. Paul tells Timothy of some who,
… concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some (II Timothy 2:18).
The fact is that the resurrection has not occurred yet … Those who died are still in the graves until the Lord gives the shout for them to rise. All, yes, all who are in the graves will hear His voice. That includes even the unbeliever.
Faith Fellowship, Vol. 59 No. 1
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