THE DEAD ARE WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION
GENESIS 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
JAMES 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, …
JOB 27:3 … my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
ECCLESIASTES 9:10,5 10 … there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, … 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, …
1 CORINTHIANS 15:52,51 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 51 … We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
JOHN 5:25,28,29 25 … The hour is coming, … when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 28 … all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 … they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; …
JOHN 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: