Revelation 8:3-4 And another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given to him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Revelation 5:8 Each had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 6:9-10 And when the Lamb opened the 5th seal I saw under the altar the (spirits see Strongs G5590) of those who had been slain because of the word of GOD and for the testimony they had upheld. And they cried out in a loud voice, how long oh Lord holy and true until you judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood ?
Now, many people think this crying out of the saints from under the altar were actually living dead people, if that makes any sense. It specifically says it was the prayers of these martyrs, prayers made while they were still alive. Psalm 115:17 Psalm 6:5 Isaiah 38:18-19 These prayers are incense before GOD.
Psalm 141:2 May my prayer be set before you like incense, May the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
This is showing us that GOD was about to answer their prayers. In the next verse, verse 11 these martyrs are given white robes and that they wait in death a little longer until the number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters in Christ, were killed as they were. These others are the Laodiceans who must give their lives as martyrs to receive salvation in the kingdom. Revelation 7:9-14 is the account of the Laodicean martyrdom. Revelation 19:8 tells us that white robes or linen symbolizes the righteousness of the saints. Isaiah 61:10 confirms this. I have proven in other articles that sleep is used as a metaphor for death because in normal sleep you are unconscious and unaware and you need to wake up to rejoin the conscious and aware, to live again after dying you are alive and aware again only by a resurrection at the return of Jesus.
I have been writing a lot on this subject of life and death because I was unaware of certain people I know that believe in the lie of immediate life after death. The resurrection is a church doctrine, see Hebrews 6:2, and never changes until the time far in the future where death is cast into the lake of fire.
I have presented on this blog overwhelming spiritual proof that our only hope to live again after we die is by a resurrection at Christs return. GOD reveals truth and truth is doctrine that is the same, GOD doesn’t keep changing doctrine, we should know this. When Adam sinned the tree of life that gave immortality was shut off from humanity and is not opened again until Revelation 22:14 Revelation 2:7 The valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 describes the second resurrection when all of the house of Israel will live again.
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