Bible Handbook

What Is Death?

• Psalm 13:3. The psalmist calls death a sleep. BHB 99.3

• 1 Thessalonians 4:15. The dead are asleep. The Desire of Ages, 787. BHB 99.4

• Matthew 27:52. They sleep in their graves. BHB 99.5

• Acts 13:36. When David died he went to sleep. BHB 99.6

• 1 Corinthians 15:51. Paul calls death a sleep. BHB 99.7

• 1 Thessalonians 4:14. The righteous dead sleep in Jesus. BHB 99.8

• 1 Kings 11:43. More than twenty-five times the expression, “Slept with his fathers,” is used when recording deaths of kings in the old Testament. We give one sample text. BHB 99.9

• John 11:11-14. Jesus calls death a sleep. BHB 99.10

• Hebrews 9:27. One death is appointed unto men. BHB 99.11

• Genesis 2:17; 3:22-24; Romans 6:23. Death is the result of sin. BHB 99.12

• John 8:44. Satan is the father of sin. BHB 99.13

• Hebrews 2:14. He has the power of death. BHB 99.14

• 2 Timothy 1:10. Christ abolished death. He changed death into a sleep. BHB 99.15

• 1 Corinthians 15:22. This included all the dead. BHB 100.1

• John 5:25-28. Christ has the power to awaken all from the sleep of death. The Desire of Ages, 320. BHB 100.2