IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST SHOULD YOU STILL TRY TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ?

 

According to my blog statistics there are many people reading articles about the Ten Commandments. These articles are the second highest of all the articles read on this blog. Therefore in this article I will share with you what the spirit of GOD through Christ has revealed to me.  Then it is up to GOD whether or not you will understand.

Scripture says “sin is the transgression 

of the law.”1 John 3:4

Romans 6:23  “For the wages of sin is death.”

Now we must ask, what law is it that if we break it brings death ?  The answer is the Ten Commandments.  If you Break any one of the Ten Commandments you have broken them all. 

 James 2:10-11  “Whoever breaks one commandment is guilty of breaking them all. For the one who said do not commit adultery also said do not murder. Even if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder then you are a lawbreaker .”

Here James makes it plain that it is the Ten Commandments that produces death if we break them.  What many fail to understand is that this death by breaking the Ten Commandments is everlasting, you cease to exist.  The heaven hell idea is a pagan myth.  In GODS eyes all sin is the same with no one sin greater than the other.  

Until GOD sent Jesus to provide repentance, forgiveness, grace and faith and the hope of everlasting life in the kingdom of GOD, All unconverted people were separated from GOD because of their sins.  There is a common belief by many that think they are Christians that they must keep the Ten Commandments but as I will show you the Ten Commandments were and are the old covenant that Jesus came to save us from. 

The Ten Commandments were kept in the ark of the covenant and Moses called the Ten Commandments the tables of the covenant.

Exodus 32:15 “Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tables of the covenant in his hands. They were written on both sides.”

Hebrews 9:4 “This ark contained the gold jar of mana, Aaron’s rod that budded and the stone tablets of the covenant.”

The Ten Commandments are the old covenant that GOD gave to humanity in order to imprison all in disobedience so that HE may show mercy to all.” Jew and Gentiles alike.  Romans 11:32 Amplified Bible 

 No one can keep the Ten Commandments and if you say you are you are a liar. 

 1 John 1:10  If we say we have no sin (because we think we are keeping the Ten Commandments) then we make GOD a liar.”  This is because GOD said, 

“For all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of GOD.”  Romans 3:23

The only human being to ever fulfill the Ten Commandments was Jesus Christ and he fulfilled them with GODS love and Paul confirms this,

Romans 14:10  “Love does no harm to a neighbor therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”  

This love is GODS love that we humans do not have and is a gift from GOD by HIS Holy Spirit in us.

Romans 5:5  “And hope does not disappoint us because GOD has poured out HIS love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit HE has given to us.”

You see our trying to keep the Ten Commandments is our working in the law rather than GOD working in us by HIS love.  This is why Jesus gave us two commandments in Matthew 23:37-40 that say;

“Jesus declared, love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind and this is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it; love your neighbor as yourself.  All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.”

In Marks gospel Jesus adds this additional comment, 

“There is no commandment greater than these.” 

This means that the Ten Commandments are inferior to the two commandments Jesus gave.  Without GODS love in us we remain sinners under the Ten Commandments that provided no mercy, forgiveness, grace, faith, repentance or hope of everlasting life.  The Ten Commandments kill us, they do not give life.  

2 Corinthians 3:6  “HE made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not the letter, but the spirit; for the letter kills but the spirit gives life.”

Galatians 3:21 “Is the law against the promises of GOD ?  Absolutely not !  For if a law had been given that could impart life then righteousness would have come by the law.”

Righteousness does not come by the law else Jesus died for nothing.

Galatians 2:21 “I do not set aside the grace of GOD, for if righteousness could be gained by the law then Christ died for nothing.”

So, I hope you may see that keeping the Ten Commandments can only produce death and are our works of righteousness that are filthy rags to GOD.  

It must be by GODS love in us, by GOD working HIS love in us. 

“ It isn’t worth anything to have a lot of knowledge, to speak in tongues, to have the gift of prophecy, or have absolute faith but if we don’t have GODS love then we are nothing.”  1 Corinthians 13:1-13  

The greatest gift of all is love, GODS love, because HIS love is what enables us to live a righteous life, to overcome our sins and gives us the hope of immortality at the return of Jesus.  

If you claim to be in Christ yet still try to keep the Ten Commandments……..

Galatians 5:4  “You who are trying to be justified by the Ten Commandments have been alienated from Christ, you have fallen from grace.”

You have hear it said many times we are under grace and not the law, well that law is the Ten Commandments.  The Ten Commandments are not evil, people are.  The law is holy, just and good but we don’t have what it takes to fulfill it which is the love of GOD.  

Jesus took upon himself the death penalty for our breaking the Ten Commandments should we then continue trying to keep them or should we surrender ourselves to allow GOD to work in us with HIS love to fulfill them ?  It is like our sitting in the electric chair ready to be executed when Jesus comes in to take our place then afterwards you sit back in the electric chair. That would be spiritually insane.  

The Ten Commandments are not the new covenant that GOD made possible through Jesus.  The Ten Commandments are the old and dead way while the new covenant is the new and living way.  

There is much more I could write but I hope this is enough.  If you have a question or comment use the comment section below.  

SUBJECT FOR BIBLE STUDY

 

After 70 years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good word toward you causing you to return to this place.  Jeremiah 29:10

Therefore it came to pass………..

2 Chronicles 36:20-23 

  “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:  The Lord, the GOD of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for HIM at Jerusalem in Judah.  Whoever of you belongs to HIS people may the Lord his GOD be with him and he may go up.”

Jeremiah said that Judah and Jerusalem would be taken to Babylon for 70 years. 

 Jeremiah 25:12  “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.    

Daniel also wrote about the 70 years.  

 Daniel 9:2  in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. 

 Daniel is informing us here that he understood the meaning of Jeremiah’s prophecy.

Then Zechariah 1:12  Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said, “O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry these seventy years ?”

Ezra 1:1-4  Ezra tells us that after Babylon was conquered by Persia the time came to FULFILL Jeremiah’s 70 year prophecy.

  In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: 

  “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.

  Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.  And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”

Now Jeremiah 25:8-14  describes the Babylonian captivity that Jeremiah wrote about and Judah and Jerusalem did indeed spend 70 years in Babylon but after the 70 years were completed the Babylonian empire was conquered by Darius king of Persia and in this day Babylon is in ruins. 

 Now verse 15 of Jeremiah 25 begins another yet future event of GODS judgement on all the nations of the earth starting with Jerusalem and the cities of Judah.  The previously mentioned 70 years of captivity in Babylon happened long before this future time and only involved Judah so the 70 years cannot be connected to this future prophecy.  

The end of the 70 years has GOD allowing the Jews to return under Cyrus king of Persia and Babylon was conquered but from verse 15 and onward is another punishment of all the nations of the earth, not just Judah.  

The reason for the Jews returning to Jerusalem is because Jesus was prophesied to be born in Bethlehem. Micah’s prophecy foretold of Jesus being born in Bethlehem over 700 years before Jesus was born and over 200 years before Babylon took Judah into captivity.  

Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to ME the one to be ruler in Israel , whose goings forth are from old, from  everlasting” 

This return of the Jews was not because the Jews deserved it but for GOD to vindicate HIS holy name.  

 Ezekiel 36:22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

Jeremiah records the same things Jesus said about this future prophecy.

Jeremiah 25:32 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Behold, disaster shall go forth From nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth.

  What Jesus said in Matthew 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

and Luke 21:25 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.

So then, we can’t use the 70 years as we have been because they are not a part of the end time but were fulfilled in the days of the prophet Daniel.  While Daniel lived in Babylon he came to understand Jeremiah’s prophecy (Daniel 9:2) and later was witness to Darius (Cyrus) king of Persia conquering Babylon recorded in;

Daniel chapter 5:30 

  Now this is the inscription that was written:

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

  And this is the interpretation of the message:

MENE  means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

  TEKEL  means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

  PERES  means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

  Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

  That very night Belshazzar king of  the Chaldeans  was slain,  and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

What this means is that we can no longer use the 70 years to say that from 1948 to the passing of 70 years  culminates in the tribulation or return of Christ.  The “sign” we need to see is the false tribulation and rise of the man of sin and the covenant made with ten nations. 

The elimination of the 70 years increases the possibility of our small group of GODS elect being a part of those who are alive and remain.  Whereas with the 70 years we were running out of time expiring in 2028. With less than 2 years to have a false tribulation and false millennium the 70 year idea was not plausible.  Eliminating the 70 years ends this time restriction.

This information should open up the possibility of Christ returning in our lifetimes.  As far as the time line we have all the days of Daniel still correct.  We did have one clarification in the 1290 days being the setting up of the abomination of desolation rather than the 1260. 

Daniel 12:11 “From the time the daily sacrifice is taken away (1260 days) and the abomination of desolation is set up there shall be 1290 days.”  

Now, with the current events in the Middle East, exists the possibility of this man of sin and his 10 nations becoming reality.  What will bring these events to fruition is not yet clear but we have thought it may be a nuclear attack on Iran by Israel and it will be the event we have called the false tribulation.  Never before in all of history has there been world conditions and scientific advancements that would make this event possible.  If we were still thinking along the lines of the 70 years there just wouldn’t be enough time for these events to happen and we might think that they would be further into the future, but now that the 70 years is correctly understood these events could happen at any time.  This increases the possibility that we may be among those who are alive and remain for the second advent. 

After the false tribulation is the false millennium that ends at the 1260 days when sacrifices end and antichrist declares himself GOD, then the 1290 days is when the abomination of desolation is set up. At 1335 days the elect are sealed and at 2300 days Christ returns. 

This is currently how we understand things now but as we have seen we may not have enough information now and there may be more information later that changes things.  What we are doing is watching world events and comparing them to prophecy and then speculating about what might happen and in doing so we should be aware that we will make mistakes along the way that will require us to rethink things.  This process is what we have been experiencing for many years already. 

I know that all the elect alive today have a great desire to be among that group of saints who are alive and remain when Christ returns but this is not a guarantee for us, salvation is a guarantee, so whether or not we are in that small group we will be in that larger group of 144,000.  We all need to constantly pray for the kingdom to come and that GOD would work HIS spirit in us more powerfully to help us do HIS will. 

 Philippians 2:13 “For it is GOD who works in you both to will and to do HIS good pleasure.”

  While yet in this flesh we will still sin and always need grace for forgiveness as it is like Jesus said, “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.”  The spirit in us was sown in weakness but will be raised in power, that seed which fell upon the good earth is tended to, watered by, the message of the gospel that saves us and GOD gives the increase.

We have learned that in the first century the Apostles thought Jesus would return soon in their lifetime and apparently GOD allowed them to believe this.  If we compare their time to ours we can see that events described in the book of Revelation (that they did not have yet) could not possibly have happened in their day.  There is no way that humanity had the ability to destroy all life on earth as they do today.  Perhaps the reason for GOD allowing the Apostles to think this was to weed out those people who were not truly converted.  

Afterwards the book of  Revelation was revealed in about 95 AD that explains how the future unfolds and that there were 6 more eras of the church to come after them.  1948 we know was not GODS doing, it was Satans doing, because it was not the fulfillment of GODS promise to Abraham; it was another copying of GODS plan used by Satan to deceive.  In order for the Antichrist to deceive the Jews and rule from Jerusalem with his 10 nations there must be a counterfeit Israel.  

We know the law will be restored along with the animal sacrifices because Revelation records this.  There will be a false Jesus in the antichrist, a false GOD in the beast and a false Elijah in the false prophet.  Under the direction of the beast , antichrist will at the 1260 days end all the sacrifices and declare himself GOD then at 1290 set up the abomination of desolation, then 45 days later the elect are sealed, then for 965 days is the great tribulation until the 2300 days when Jesus returns early to stop humanity from destroying itself.    This is the what we have so far and we know it is subject to change as more things are revealed.  

What we watch for now is not the 70 years but the false tribulation and what we are seeing now in the Middle East has the potential to bring it about. 

Remember the people who fell away in the first century when the temple was destroyed but Jesus did not return.  We do not want to be like them, so if we are 100% wrong and the return of Jesus is far off, we do not repeat their error.  We must cling to faith even if we do not understand what is going on.  Faith is believing in things that have not yet happened in spite of what we see around us.  We walk by faith not by sight.  Personally I believe we are near to the time of this false tribulation.

 1 Timothy 4:1-3  2 Timothy 3:1-5  Romans 1:24-32

As we continue to watch we need to surrender ourselves to GOD desiring HIS spirit to work in us to guide us in all righteousness, love and truth.  GOD knows the thoughts and intents of our human spirit and sees this desire in us and in spite of our weaknesses, our sins, has provided us with grace and faith by which we are saved.  So then whether we live or whether we die we belong to GOD.

1/2 A SOUL IS DEATH THE COMPLETE SOUL IS LIFE

 Below is half a soul at death.

Here is the other half of the soul at death.

No one has ever seen a human spirit so I just have a picture of nothing.  

 

Below is a complete soul.

 

I hope you can see the difference.

Half a soul cannot be alive because it takes both body and spirit combined to make a soul, a living breathing creature. At death the spirit and body separate and neither one can function without the other.  The dead man in the casket cannot wave to you like the man who is a complete soul does.  How can the spirit wave to you when it has no hands, no body ?

At present GOD will let the people in the world believe whatever they want but not so in HIS church, in the church the saints must believe what GOD teaches them through Jesus Christ. What GOD teaches is not what the world teaches, God teaches the truth, the world teaches lies. 

 

 

ARTICLE BY DANIEL MACARAEG

 

Why You Do Not Have an Immortal Soul

By Daniel Macaraeg April 14, 2026

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What are you, really? And what am I?

Many Christians answer this without hesitation: you have a soul—an immortal soul—an invisible part of you that leaves the body at death and goes to either heaven or hell. It is preached in churches, assumed at funerals, and rarely questioned.

But where does the Bible actually say this?

It doesn’t.

This belief is ancient, widespread, and deeply comforting. It is also one of the biggest errors in all of Christianity. Because if you misunderstand what man is, you will misunderstand death, judgment, and the very purpose of salvation.

Your Bible teaches that man does not have an immortal soul. Man is a soul, formed from the dust of the ground and sustained by breath. That soul can die. Everlasting life is not inherent in man but is a gift given by God through resurrection. This truth is essential to understanding the gospel of the Kingdom of God.

Man Became a Soul—He Was Not Given One

Genesis 2:7 states that God formed man from the dust and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, “and man became a living soul.” The Hebrew word nephesh means a living, breathing creature—not an immortal entity. The same word is used for animals in Genesis 1:20–24.

Biblically, a soul is not something placed inside the body. It is the whole living being. This alone overturns the idea that humans possess an indestructible spiritual component.

The Soul Can Die—And Immortality Must Be Given

If souls were immortal, Scripture could not say what it plainly says: “The soul who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4, 20). Paul confirms it: “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Not everlasting life in torment. Not conscious existence elsewhere. Death.

Only God “has immortality” (1 Timothy 6:16). Paul tells us plainly that immortality must be put on—and only at the resurrection: “This mortal must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:53). If you already had an immortal soul, you would not need a resurrection—you would need a travel itinerary.

But the gospel is not about relocation. It is about transformation.

Death Is Sleep—Not Life in Another Place

The Bible repeatedly describes death as unconsciousness. “The dead know nothing” (Ecclesiastes 9:5). When a man dies, “his plans perish” (Psalm 146:4).

This is why Yeshua (Jesus) described death as sleep. Speaking of Lazarus, He said, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps,” and then explained plainly, “Lazarus is dead” (John 11:11–14). If the dead were already alive in heaven or hell, these statements would be misleading. But if death is a state of complete unconsciousness, the Bible speaks with one voice.

The dead are not watching. They are waiting.

How the Immortal Soul Doctrine Entered the Church

The doctrine of the immortal soul echoes the first recorded lie in Scripture: “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4). From the beginning, humanity was told that death would not truly mean death.

Centuries later, Greek philosophers like Plato taught that the soul is immortal and the body merely a temporary prison. Church fathers trained in pagan schools carried the idea in with them. By Augustine’s time, a Hebrew revelation had been replaced by a Greek assumption. A lie that began in Eden entered the church through philosophy, and it replaced the biblical hope of resurrection with the idea of immediate life after death.

Why This Matters For the Kingdom

This truth defines the plan of God.  Being born again is not a present experience but a future resurrection event—and why: God is reproducing Himself, His character of love and righteousness, preparing human beings to be born into His Family as spirit-composed sons and daughters.

Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 15:50). That change happens at the resurrection, when mortality is replaced with immortality. God is not relocating ghosts. He is raising the dead—and transforming them to rule with Christ in His coming government. You are not preparing to escape this life. You are preparing to be changed into something greater.

Conclusion

The doctrine of the immortal soul does more than misinterpret a few verses—it reshapes the entire message of the Bible. It replaces resurrection with assumption, judgment with immediacy, and the Kingdom of God with an afterlife detached from God’s plan.

The truth is both sobering and hopeful.

Man is mortal—but not meaningless. Temporary—but not purposeless. Created from dust—but destined for glory.

God is offering you something you do not already possess: everlasting life in His Family. But it will not be given automatically.

Read Genesis 2:7, Ezekiel 18, Ecclesiastes 9, and 1 Corinthians 15 this week. Let Scripture define what man is. Then examine what you believe—and decide which authority you will follow.

DISEMBODIED SPIRITS

 

 If when you die and become a disembodied spirit this means you have no body. 

Does your spirit have eyes, ears, a nose, a tongue, can you wear a garment, or talk without a mouth and vocal cords or see anything without eyes ?  

According to the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 the saints do not get a new spirit body until the resurrection when Jesus returns so at death we have no body. 

 Jesus said that no man ascends to heaven and I would think descends to hell either.  How can anyone feel pain from hell fire if they have no body ?  On the day of Pentecost the Apostle Peter spoke about King David and said that David’s grave was with them today and that David did not ascend into heaven. Acts2:34

When the saints are resurrected they will have a spirit body that makes them immortal so before they receive this spirit body they must be mortal. How can a mortal spirit live on after death ? 

 Yes, your human spirit is mortal just as your body is mortal.  Remember that GOD withheld immortality from Adam and Eve that was in the tree of life because of sin.  If either body or spirit was immortal then why must this mortal put on immortality ?  The soul is alive but a disembodied spirit is not.  

Humans are mortal, no one, not even the human Jesus was immortal, so how is it that if your mortal you can yet be alive ?  It’s not our spirit or our body that is immortal, it’s the spirit body we receive in the resurrection that makes us immortal.  It says this mortal must put on immortality.  This putting on immortality is compared by Paul to being clothed with this new spirit body. 2 Corinthians 5:1-4   1 Corinthians 15:42-44 and 53-54   Also Philippians 3:20-21  1 John 3:2 gives the time of this event as “when he appears”, the return of Christ.  

The Saints inherit the kingdom and immortality therefore before this they are only heirs not yet inheritors therefore at death we die as an heir waiting for our inheritance.   Ephesians 1:14  1 Peter 1:3-5  Daniel 12:13  Matthew 24:13  2 Timothy 4:7-8  Hebrews 9:15   No human being has ever been immortal and at death there is no life of any kind.  To live again and become immortal requires a resurrection from the dead.  

SOUL BODY SPIRIT LIFE DEATH RESURRECTION MORTAL IMMORTAL

 A spirit without a body is death. An angel has a spirit body. GOD doesn’t have a body, HE is pure spirit. How could GOD, who is omnipresent in eternity have a body ?  Scriptures that speak of GOD having certain body parts like humans do is anthropomorphism or attributing human characteristics to GOD.  This done to help finite humans comprehend the infinite. GOD could not communicate with humans on HIS level because HE is the highest and HIS thoughts and ways are so far above humans that humans would never understand.  Therefore GOD comes down to human level in HIS communication with humans using terminology humans would understand.  GOD designed humans to need a body to be alive when the human spirit is joined with the body it becomes a soul.  At death humans become a disembodied spirit but because this spirit has no body all of the normal actions of a living soul are not present.  A disembodied human spirit cannot see, taste, hear, talk, feel or smell because all of the necessary senses required are rotting in the ground.  Half a soul is not life.

 When GOD formed Adams body from the dust of the ground and before the breath of life came Adams body could do nothing, there was no life until the human spirit, the breath of life entered Adams body.  While we are a soul we are a living being but a disembodied spirit is only half of a soul.  It is only in the kingdom that these disembodied spirits will become like the angels with a spirit body that makes them immortal.  Mark 12:25  Luke 20:34-36  1 Corinthians 15:42-50  

There are certain people that think GOD makes exceptions for some people and that these people are somehow yet alive as a disembodied spirit. There is no scriptural evidence to support this idea.  The Bible explicitly says that the only way to live again after death is by a resurrection from the dead. Any scripture that seems to say otherwise is either a very bad translation, a deliberate alteration, improper punctuation or some combination of these.  All the prophets, Jesus and Apostles testify to this fact of the resurrection . 

 Oh, GOD can change HIS mind they say but GOD, who is omniscient, knows in eternity all things so why would HE need to “change HIS mind” ?  People who think this way don’t know or understand GODs attributes else they would never think such gibberish.  1 Corinthians 6:14  

One of these types talks about hermeneutics saying we need to take the plain words of scripture as the truth.  Well, the trinity is supported by hermeneutics and this person was able to see how scriptures were taken out of context or altered to support the lie of the trinity but this person seems unable to do this with the lie of immediate life after death. This persons hermeneutics is worthless and is the logic of carnal minds.The Holy Spirit of the FATHER is the interpreter of scripture not human hermeneutics and is able to overcome any butchering men have done to the scriptures to reveal the truth to HIS elect saints.  This person has never had this spiritual experience from GOD therefore he is carnal knowing nothing.   This person only recently came to understand the trinity is a lie but this is no indication that this person is converted having the indwelling spirit of GOD because the Jews have known the truth of one GOD for about 3,500 years but it hasn’t done any good for them at all.  It is extremely important to know there is only one GOD but this is not the message of the gospel. Since this person truly believes in immediate life after death in some fashion they ignorantly are preaching a false gospel.  If 98% of false Christianity thinks immediate life after death is true then that’s the first indication that it is a lie.  Whatever the false churches teach is a lie.  

THE CRY OF THE MARTYRS

  

In Revelation 6:9-11 is the account of the souls who were killed for their testimony.  The question here is are these martyrs alive or dead.  Many believe these are disembodied spirits are conscious and alive due their crying out.  If this section of scripture is literal then previously in Revelation 5:6 it is literally a slaughtered lamb that opens the fifth seal in Revelation 6:1  And there is literally a white horse whose rider held a bow and a crown was given to him a great sword , then he went out to conquer.  This is followed by three more literal horses of various colors with their riders who in sequence take peace from the earth, cause famine and killing with sword, famine, plague and beasts of the earth.  Then we come to the verses in question, the literal crying our of dead people who want their blood avenged and each receives a white robe but they have no body to put it on because they are disembodied spirits and they are told they must wait until the full number of their fellow saints would be killed as they were.  So then if we assume verses 9 to 11 are literal and not symbolic then we must also assume all the other seals are literal too. 

Revelation is a book that heavily employs symbolism and most people know this but the challenge is to separate the symbolism from reality and this is where for many people it proves to be impossible.  The same can be said of the parable of Lazarus and the rich man that also uses symbolism that is found in the false beliefs of the Pharisees that Jesus was speaking this parable to.  Jesus used their belief of what they considered to be the afterlife against them by giving the reward to Lazarus rather than the rich man. Another example is the transfiguration that Jesus plainly told his disciples was a vision and therefore not real. Did the kingdom of GOD arrive during this event ?  Was Christ glorified before his time as well as Moses and Elijah because Jesus was glorified at his ascension and Moses and Elijah will be at the last day when Jesus returns.

When the spiritually ignorant read scriptures in the Bible that seem to indicate immediate life after death they fall for them and are very willing to abandon the truth of GOD about resurrections from the dead in order to believe in their lie.  They will throw out the plain declarations of the prophets, Jesus and the Apostles about the resurrection of the dead at the return of Jesus in order to cling to their Satan inspired lie.  

Without the Holy Spirit they cannot understand these things so they invent whatever they want that pleases them.