ARE THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS STILL VALID TODAY OR HAS GOD CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT WHAT THE PROPHETS WROTE CONCERNING LIFE DEATH AND RESURRECTION

 There are many scriptures in the Old Testament that plainly say that the dead are not alive and sleep the sleep of death being totally unconscious.  There are some who say these words by the prophets have been changed by GOD and don’t apply to us today and they use the transfiguration, the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, 1 Peter 3:18-21 and others to prove this.  GODS attributes of omnipotence and omniscience should show us that GOD doesn’t need to change HIS mind about anything.  It is necessary to examine what Jesus and the Apostles say about this idea.

2 Peter 3:1-2 “This second epistle beloved I write to you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance.  That you be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us Apostles of the Lord and Savior.”

2 Peter 1:19 “And so we have the prophetic word made sure to which you would do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.  Knowing this first that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation for prophecy never came by the will of man but holy men of GOD spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”

Romans 1:2 “the gospel HE promised beforehand through HIS prophets in the holy scriptures.”

Ephesians 3:5 “which was not made known in other generations as it has now been revealed by the spirit of GODS holy Apostles and prophets.”

Acts 3:21 “whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things about which GOD spoke by the mouth of all HIS holy prophets since the world began.”

Well, these are only a few scriptures that to me establish the sureness of the testimony of the prophets.  Peter reveals that all the prophets were not speaking to people of their day or for themselves but to the church. 

1 Peter 1:12 “It was revealed to them (the prophets) that they were not serving themselves but you (the church) when they spoke of the things that have now been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things angels desire to look into.”

All the words of the holy prophets are still valid today, even those that describe the state of the dead being that of unconscious nothingness.  That there is no immediate life after death. The truth of GOD had always been in both old and new testaments that the ONLY way to live again after death is by a resurrection from the dead at the return of Christ.  

Any other teachings that contradicts or alters this truth are from Satan.  This lie of Satan is not part of the gospel but of Satans first lie, “You shall not surely die.”  The elect of GOD are to be in agreement on all spiritual things with no divisions among us and all of us speaking the same thing.  Anyone calling themself a brother but thinks there is immediate life after death is a deceived person.  This deceived brother needs to repent and accept the truth if GOD will have mercy on him and grant him repentance. 

 James 5:20 “Let him know that the one who has turned a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.”  

The brother, more than likely a babe, needs correction from the mature brethren, but if he rejects loving correction then what ?

Romans 16:17 “I urge you brothers and sisters to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.”

Titus 3:10-11 “Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful and self condemned.”

2 John 1:9 “Whoever transgresses and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have GOD but the one who remains in the teaching has both the FATHER and the son.”

1 Timothy 6:3 “If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words even the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and with doctrine conforming to Godliness they are proud knowing nothing but is obsessed with dispute and arguments over words from which come envy, strife, evil suspicions.”

GODS elect will in love try to explain the truth to a confused brother but if that brother refuses to hear and continues his rant about a false belief then it is time to rebuke him.  Titus 3:10 

 Usually a person rebuked is offended and withdraws himself from fellowship rather than realize his error when the  brethren attempt in love to help him see the truth.  This is a sad thing but this person isn’t lost but may have to be in the millennium or second resurrection to see the truth if GOD doesn’t want him now.   If the brother repents and desires to return to fellowship then let him and consider the matter over and done.  

WAS JESUS CHRIST IMMORTAL ?

 

The penalty for our sin is death.  This death is easily proven to be one of a mortal human where the spirit leaves the body, then the body rots to dust and the unconscious spirit returns to GOD.  In order to be the substitute payment for human sin Jesus would have to die in the exact same way as all humans do otherwise the penalty would not be paid .   Jesus took upon himself our death sentence so the death we die Jesus died also.  Just like all human beings the soul of Jesus separated and his spirit went to GOD but his body did not rot or decay and actually healed while dead because after his resurrection he appeared to many and no one seemed shocked by his appearance.  Remember, Jesus was whipped so bad his visage was marred , Isaiah 52:14 , yet after 3 days and 3 nights the FATHER resurrected Jesus and Jesus was alive again, a soul again.  You have to be a soul in order to be alive.  All this information proves that Jesus was not still alive after he died but was indeed dead just as any of us when we die. 

 Humans are mortal and Jesus was human therefore Jesus was mortal.  Humans have a human spirit called the spirit in man and this spirit is what makes us human so if Jesus was human then he had to have a human spirit.  

To live after dying would mean your immortal but scriptures testify humans are mortal. Jesus could only live again after he died because the FATHER resurrected him otherwise Jesus would still be dead and we yet in our sins and condemned to death.  

There are certain scriptures that spiritually ignorant people use to “prove” immediate life after death but these ignorant do not understand these scriptures because they don’t have the Holy Spirit. There are many things ignorant false Churches teach the carnal people who attend them that are lies.  Only the elect of GOD understand spiritual things because they are taught to us by GOD through Jesus. Matthew 13:11 The FATHERS Spirit is able to reveal HIS truth to HIS elect no matter how much unconverted Satanically inspired men have perverted the scriptures.  This is why GODS elect are confident in what they know and believe.  We elect, by the power of the FATHERS Spirit through Jesus, are being taught in the same way as the prophets and Apostles, by divine revelation. The Apostle John recorded this fact in 1 John 2:27  and by Jesus in John 14:13,26  Therefore preachers, ministers, pastors, popes and all human ministries are unnecessary and have been abolished after the death of the Apostle John. Ezekiel 34:10   Jeremiah 23:1   John 10:12-13   Isaiah 56:11 

It is by this connection to GOD through Jesus that we know Jesus was mortal and died exactly the same way we do and was resurrected by the FATHER to life again. Revelation 1:18   If life after death was immediate all humans and the human Jesus would be immortal and the resurrection a lie.  Hebrews 2:17 Jesus had to be created by GOD to be fully human in every physical way.  It should be obvious that spiritually Jesus was far above us because Jesus had a greater anointing of GODS spirit than anyone else has ever had.  

Hebrews 1:9  The GOD of the Elohim Jesus, set Jesus above his companions by anointing Jesus with more the oil of gladness. 

This oil of gladness is referring to the Holy Spirit.

The human spirit of Jesus was incapable of sin therefore his human body was the perfect sacrifice for our sins.  The human spirit of Christ was one with his GOD and this oneness is what we elect of GOD are destined to become.  This acquiring of the state of oneness for the elect happens when we are changed at the return of Jesus in the first resurrection.  Until then we are to bear fruit to GOD by surrendering ourselves to GODS working power of love in us to truly love GOD and neighbor. If we endure to the end of our lives in doing this we will be made immortal and incapable of sin.  

The elect are said to have everlasting life abiding in them which gives the spiritually ignorant the idea we are immoral now.  Everlasting life is a gift from GOD to the elect and is dependent on our surrendering ourselves to GOD and obeying the gospel, growing in grace and knowledge and overcoming.  The elect see GODS promise of immortality as a sure thing because GOD cannot lie therefore we speak of everlasting life as though we already have it when we know it is yet future in the resurrection.  This method of speaking is called prophetic present tense, that is like the way GOD speaks, Romans 4:17 (last part) “calls those things which do not exist as though they do”  It seems that all of GODS people have at times spoken in this way.  The ignorant do not understand these things and in their carnal minds invent the immortal soul lie or some form of instant life after death. 

No human being as two natures unless they are either converted elect with the holy spirt or demonically possessed. If Jesus was created by GOD and was human did Jesus have a nature just like ours ?  When GOD created Adam, Adams nature was innocent and ignorant of sin because he had not yet sinned by eating the forbidden fruit that opened his eyes to understand good and evil.  At his creation Adam could not sin but later became a sinner, this is a change of nature, a nature that all humans now have, the nature of evil acquired from Satan.  Jesus is called the second Adam but Jesus was the messiah who was created by GOD incapable of sin so that the sacrifice of his life would be more than enough to pay for our sins.  The virgin birth separated Jesus from Adam so that Adams sin did not pass on to Jesus.  Jesus and Adam were like brothers because their FATHER was GOD.  The spiritually ignorant think Jesus was dual natured, both GOD and man, but I would ask how many other human beings are the same, are all humans both GOD and man ?  Jesus was indeed 100% human but he was 0% GOD. Jesus had GODS character of love and righteousness but none of GODS attributes of omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient or eternal existence.  If no human is also GOD then Jesus the human was not GOD either.  Jesus was a human man who was totally filled with the spirit of GOD and was especially created by GOD to be the messiah. There was nothing about Jesus  when he was human that was immortal.  

ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT BLOG STATISTICS

 

As of yesterday the only other article that has made it to the all time viewing list was an article by Ray called “Overcoming Sin”.  Today an article by J has joined the list. J’s article Two Different Deaths is now the second article by a contributing author to be on the all time list of articles read.  Congratulations J.  

KEL IS WRONG AGAIN

 Jesus said not to fear him who could destroy the body but rather HIM who can destroy both body and spirit in hell.  Matthew 10:28   Hell in this verse is referring to the lake of fire, the second death. 

According to Kel there is no human spirit but the spirit in us is GODS spirit.  Would GOD destroy HIMSELF in hell ?  All humans have a human spirit and GODS spirit bears witness with our human spirit. Romans 8:16   If man is made in the image and likeness of GOD then just what is there about humans that is this image and likeness ?  There are only two parts that make a soul, the dust or body and the breath or spirit.  Which  one of these could be said to be in GODS image and likeness ?  John 4:24 declares that GOD is spirit and we humans have a spirit therefore it is the human spirit that is in GODS image and likeness.  What part of a human enters the kingdom of GOD ?  Is it our body or our spirit ?  Hebrews 12:23 “the spirits of just men made perfect”

Scripture does say there is a spirit in man and that this human spirit is our mind, our thoughts and intents and is our connection to GOD.  Job 32:8  1 Corinthians 2:11-12   Romans 8:16  Kel says humans are not a spirit but only living dust and Kel confidently says, “GOD said so”, and his statement is false because GOD said we are a living soul, not living dust.  Well, dust isn’t living its animated by the human spirit, Jesus said it is the spirit that gives life the body profits nothing.  John 6:63  

 To be alive means to be aware and conscious and able to function in a body.  The human spirit at death is not destroyed but enters a state of unconsciousness and unawareness until the resurrection.  Since the body of dust that Kel says is living dust is not alive of itself then Kels living dust is an oxymoron as well as a corruption of scripture. Dust is matter and matter has no life at all.  The human body only appears to be living because of the presence of the human spirit.  James said the body without the spirit is dead.  

When GOD formed Adams body there was no life in that dust.  The human spirit, the breath of life, was required to give the body the appearance of life.  Notice the life is in the breath, GOD doesn’t breathe therefore this is not GODS spirit that makes the soul alive, it is a spirit designed by GOD requiring breath.  The souls of human beings are kept alive by breath, Genesis 7:22   Isaiah 2:22   Job 27:3 but this verse is better translated “the breath from GOD is in my nostrils”  because remember GOD doesn’t breathe.  Acts 17:25 “GOD gives to all life and breath”  Zechariah 12:1 “and forms the spirit of man within him.” A spirit that is not GODS spirit but a spirit designed by GOD requiring breath to be alive, to be a soul. Remember that even lower animals require a spirit that isn’t GODS spirit. Kel said that if humans were a spirit we would be immortal but in this statement Kel is obviously ignorant of just what a soul is and how GOD designed the soul, the body of dust and a spirit of breath created for each kind, Genesis 1:25 “And GOD made the beast of the earth according to its kind, and cattle according to its kind and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind and GOD saw that it was good.”

Now Kels teaching is absolutely wrong.  All humans are a spirit in a mortal body. The body suffers corruption and cannot enter the kingdom of GOD.  1 Corinthians 15:39-49   GODS saints will receive a spirit body and this is what makes them immortal because the human spirit by itself is not immortal but as stated before at death becomes unconscious and unaware which is not what life is.  This unconscious human spirit needs a body that is incorruptible, a spirit body, in order to become immortal.  This mortal must put on immortality. This corruption must put on incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:35-49  read these verses carefully.

Even animals are souls requiring the breath of life to be alive.  Each animal has a spirit that is programmed by GOD to match the animal. Each animal’s spirit is unique to its body, each after its own kind.  GOD is the creator of all spirits and each spirit has its own body. The lower animals operate purely on instinct, a preprogrammed behavior GOD placed in them.  Horses don’t climb trees, cats don’t chase cars, elephants don’t fly and no other animal except man can build a spacecraft to travel to the moon and back.  At death the animal spirit along with its body is destroyed but a human spirit that was created by GOD to have the potential of a relationship with GOD is preserved in a dormant state until a resurrection from the dead.  The other animals do not have this potential.  Kel used a flashlight to demonstrate that humans are living dust but in his explanation he fails to see that what makes the flashlight shine is spirit not dust. It is also true that when the batteries are removed from the flashlight that neither flashlight or batteries can do anything thus showing their is no immediate life after death. The saints need a new flashlight, a new spirit body that their human spirit can dwell in. 

Kel, you do a decent job in proving the trinity is a lie but in almost everything else you say you are wrong. You fancy yourself to be a biblical expert but in reality are a novice at best.  I credit your biblical ignorance to your working alone in your studies of scripture and have no one to challenge you, no one to say, “hey Kel but what about this ?”  This is a very serious handicap that leads you to error in your conclusions.  You are only one witness in yourself and the word of one witness is useless and worthless, Deuteronomy 19:15  for in a multitude of counselors there is safety, Proverbs 11:14,  and in two or three witnesses is a matter established.  

DOES IRAN HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ?

 

There is an unconfirmed report that Iran may have nuclear weapons and may test one in the near future. It is speculated that possibly North Korea may have given Iran these weapons.  A CIA analyst appeared on Judge Andrew Napolitanos podcast “Judging Freedom” and made the comment that Iran now has nuclear weapons and intends to test one.  If this information is true it may well explain the reason why president Trump is seeking peace. Trump doesn’t want a nuclear war in the Middle East.  Recently Trump went ballistic on Netanyahu for planning to invade Beirut Lebanon to attack Hezbollah that has been attacking northern Israel. I thought this to be rather strange and I also thought it strange that Trump has not finished off Iran now that they have been extremely weakened by the U.S. and Israel.  Without a regime change in Iran  the problem in the Middle East will will never be resolved.  It is a well known fact that Iran has never honored any agreements they have entered into. There is a scripture that applies to these Iranian people that describes them and all Islamic people.

Genesis 16:12 “He shall be a wild man, his hand shall be against every man and every man’s hand will be against him, and he will live in defiance of all his brothers.”

This scripture is about Abrahams son Ishmael that he had with Hagar the the servant of Sarah Abrahams wife.  Ishmael is the father of todays Arab people and from whom the Islamic people came to be. These people have a very violent history and have attacked many nations including their own people.  The Arab form of Islam differs from that of Iran that is ancient Persia.  Iran believes that the 12th Imam, Muhammad Al Mahdi, who has been in hiding since 868 AD, will return an lead Iran to world domination at a time of great upheaval. This current war is believed by these Iranian leaders to culminate in the arrival of this Mahdi.  This particular sect of Islam is extremely dangerous and fits very well with Genesis 16:12   President Trump knows all of this yet is desperate for peace.  If Trump knows that Iran has nuclear weapons he would not want Israel to know this because Israel would destroy Iran with their own nuclear weapons.  Israel is well aware that they would be Irans first target so they would strike first to avoid being nuked. Can’t say as I would blame them.  This is all of course speculation but if Iran does test detonate a nuclear bomb I look for Israel to destroy Iran.  Then all hell will break loose in the Middle East.  

Zechariah 14:13 “It shall come to pass in that day that a great panic from the Lord will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor and raise his hand against his neighbors hand.” 

Isaiah 19:2 “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian, brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city and kingdom against kingdom.”

Haggai 2:22 “I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders, horses and their riders will fall each by the sword of his brother.” 

The victory of Israel over Iran will fill all the hearts of all the people with fear. Israel will by the man of sin revive the old covenant and form a union with ten nations; 5 from the east and 5 from the west of once was the Roman Empire.  Israel will become the foremost nation on earth and it will be thought by them that this man of sin is their messiah. The covenant made will be for 7 years, the first 3 1/2  a false millennium the last 3 1/2 the great tribulation. 

There are articles on this blog that better explain these things.  As with all prophecy we see through a glass darkly but as time moves forward we will see more.  I caution all readers to not become to engrossed in prophetic events because of this reason. It may not come to pas exactly as we now believe or even at a time we may think.  

DID JESUS AFTER HE DIED PREACH TO THE DEAD SPIRITS IN PRISON WHO WERE LIVING IN NOAHS DAY ?

 

Jesus preached to the spirits of living people in his day, not to dead people in Noah’s day. Noah, a preacher of righteousness, preached to the spirits in prison in his day.

Isaiah 61:1 “The spirit of YAHWEH is upon me (Jesus) because YAHWEH has anointed me (Jesus) to proclaim the gospel to the poor. YAHWEH has sent me (Jesus) to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives (those in a spiritual prison) and release from darkness for the prisoners.”

Isaiah 49:9 “To say to the prisoners, come out and to those in darkness show yourselves….”

Isaiah 42:7 “To open the eyes of the blind, to free captives from the prison and to release those who sit in darkness from the prison house.”

Luke 4:20 “Then he (Jesus) rolled up the scroll and returned it to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him and he began to say to them, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

Acts 10:38 “How GOD anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil because GOD was with him.”

Noah preached to living people in his day who were also spirits imprisoned by Satan. Noah was a preacher of righteousness.

2 Peter 2:5 “If GOD did not spare the ancient world when HE brought the flood on its ungodly people but  saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.” 

Genesis 6:9 “This is the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man blameless in his time ; Noah walked with GOD.”

Hebrews 11:7 “By faith, Noah, when warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”

It took 120 years to build the ark and during that time GOD waited patiently while Noah preached righteousness to the people to see if any would repent but none did. Only Noah and his family were saved. 

Jesus Christ preached to the spirits in prison quoting Isaiah 61:1 to them.  During all of his 3 1/2 years of preaching only 120 people were in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.  

In these verses of 1 Peter 3:18-20 there is an error in punctuation. After Jesus died, 3 days and nights later, Jesus was made alive by the spirit of GOD.  In his ministry he preached the gospel to the imprisoned spirits, living people of his day, by the same spirit that raised him from the dead. Notice that the spirits of some who were formerly disobedient of which only 120 obeyed and right after the word disobedient there should be a period.  Now Peter is comparing the preaching of Jesus to the preaching of Noah to show how baptism in water was like the water that saved Noah. Paul does a similar thing in 1 Corinthians 10:2  showing the shadow of the law compared to the light of Christ.

Immortality was withheld from humanity after Adam sinned.  A human life is just like that of any other animal, as one dies so does the other. Ecclesiastes 3:19  This truth is still with us today.  No murderer has everlasting life abiding in them.  1 John 3:15   

The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of receiving everlasting life when Jesus returns.  John 6:40,44,54 all these verses say the resurrection happens at the last day when this mortal must put on immortality.  We do not have immortality now or when we die but only at the resurrection in the last day. 

GODS truth, HIS doctrine, never changes.  Certain people read 1 Peter 3:18-20 and conclude that after we die or Jesus died they were still alive and conscious as a disembodied spirit. This idea violates the gospel message and is a deception of Satan. 

1 Corinthians 15:13-18  “If there is no resurrection of the dead then not even Christ has Been resurrected.  If Christ has not been resurrected our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that we are found to be false witnesses about GOD for we have testified about GOD that HE resurrected Christ from the dead. But if HE did not resurrect Christ then the dead are not resurrected from the dead for if then the dead are not resurrected then Christ has not been resurrected either.  And if Christ has not been resurrected your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.  Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.”

Do you not see that the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, that is making the dead alive again, is the hope of both the living and the dead ?  Paul says plainly that the dead in Christ, those who have fallen asleep, would be lost if there is no resurrection from the dead.  The word lost in verse 18 is Strongs article G622 and it means, to destroy fully or permanent absolute destruction or utterly perish.  The phrase “fallen asleep” is Strongs article G2837 and describes the peaceful death of the elect of GOD where sleep is used as a metaphor for death.  Therefore prior to the resurrection the elect are sleeping in death, totally unaware and unconscious.  There are no exceptions to this doctrine as even Christ had to be resurrected from the dead just as those who are asleep in death must be also.  This is the truth of GOD and anything that contradicts this truth is a lie. Immediate life after death is a lie.  Satans first lie was that humans do not surely die and people who believe this lie believe in immediate life after death. You are an imprisoned spirit awaiting the sentence of death and held in a spiritual prison with no way of escape.  The message of the gospel is the hope that even if dead you can be resurrected from the dead to immortality in the kingdom of GOD. 

WHY DOES THE HUMAN SPIRIT LEAVE THE BODY AND WHAT HAPPENS TO IT ?

 

Why does the human spirit, the breath of life, leave the body ?  The human body is composed of matter, the dust of the ground.  Dust has no life in it.  The human spirit animates the body or gives the appearance of life as long as the spirit is in the body.  James said,

 “As the body without the spirit is dead” James 2:26 

 The human spirit was designed by GOD to need a body because without a body the spirit cannot function in any way.  The human spirit operates through the brain, which is the interface between our spirit and our body.  Our senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are transmitted from the body through the brain to our spirit and visa versa .  If any of these 5 senses is destroyed then our spirit no longer has that sense.  If your eyes are put out you no longer see because that sense no longer transmits the information through the brain to your spirit.  The same is true for all of the other senses.  A dead person has no senses at all, have you ever seen a dead person do anything ?  Your human spirit is what keeps the body functioning but if your body becomes too severely damaged the spirit can no longer keep the body functioning and leaves the body to go back to GOD.  

Ecclesiastes 12:7 “and the spirit returns to GOD who gave it.” 

This disembodied spirit cannot function without the body just as the body cannot function without the spirit.  In the first resurrection this disembodied spirit is joined to a spirit body and you are alive again forever.  The Genesis account in chapter 1 verse 27 says GOD created man in HIS own image, 

“So GOD created man in HIS own image.”

 So, what is GODS image, likeness or form.  The Hebrew word for image is Strongs article H6754 “Tselem” it means a phantom, illusion, representative figure, vain show.  Therefore a human is a poor or incomplete copy of GODS image.  GODS image is spirit. 

 John 4:24 “GOD is spirit”

GOD is not flesh and blood but we humans have a spirit and this is how we are in GODS image.  GOD is not dust with a spirit, HE is totally spirit and that is what the potential for humanity is, to become spirit as GOD is spirit.  GOD requires no breath of life as we do and neither do the angels.  This body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD. 

 1 Corinthians 15:50 “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD”

Therefore if our body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom then what part of us does ?  The human spirit inherits the kingdom of GOD.  It’s the spirits of just men made perfect not their fleshly body.  

Hebrews 12:23 “To the general assembly and church of the first born which are written in heaven and to GOD the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect.”

Many people do not understand any of this.  There are various beliefs as to what happens after we die.  The truth about death is that there is no life of any kind after death except a resurrection from the dead at the return of Christ.  Scripture says we must be changed,

 1 Corinthians 15:51 “Listen, I will tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep (die) but we will all be changed….” 

Changed in what way ? We are changed from flesh to spirit.  If this fleshly body we have is destroyed we have another body composed of spirit that at the resurrection of the dead when Jesus returns is joined with our human spirit that went back to GOD when we died. Our spirit is unconscious until placed into the spirit body. There is a natural body of flesh and there is a spirit body. 

 1 Corinthians 15:44 “it is sown a natural body, it is resurrected a spiritual body.” 

 This is when we will truly be in GODS image.  There are people that say Jesus today in heaven is glorified flesh, but how does scripture describe Jesus? 

 1 Corinthians 15:45 “the last Adam became a life giving spirit.”  

Scripture also says this,

 1 John 3:2 “we know when Christ appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” 

 2 Corinthians 3:18 “And we all with unveiled faces contemplate the Lords glory are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory…”   

Romans 8:29 “Those who GOD for new HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS son …”.

   So then, if Jesus is a life giving spirit now and we are going to be changed to be like him in the resurrection at his return then we are going to become spirit beings.  Until that day comes if we are dead we are totally unconscious and unaware but once our human spirit is placed into that spirit body we will live again forever.