DEAD: Dead-Dead Or Dead-Alive!?!

B.L.T.!?!
Why Are You Asking For That!?!
You Don't Eat Piggy Pork!

You Misunderstand!
My Request For BLT
Is For Me To Be Brave, Loyal 

And

True To The Lord Christ
So That I May Stand The Test
And
Pass It With Flying Colors
So That I May Be Eternally Blessed!

Okay, But What Has Brought This On!?!

Do You Remember When Desmond Was On Probation!?!

Sure Do!
He Always Had His Calendar Handy ...!

... And He Was Always Marking Off The Days Served
And Forever Counting The Days Left To Serve!

Indeed!

I Remember Vividly The End Of 
The Last Day Of His Probation!
He Was Hooting And Hollering
And Telling Every And Anybody That 
He Was Free, Free, Free
And That He Now Belonged
That He Was Now A Homer!

He Was Thrilled To Bits
And It Was Exciting To Watch!

The Reminiscing Is All Good
But What Does This Have To Do
With That BLT
Brave Loyal True Request You Made!?!

It Has Everything To Do With It And Nothing At All!

Okay, It's Official ... And I'm Confused!

Are Christians On Probation!?!

Yes!

Is The World On Probation!?!

Yes!

Are You On Probation!?!

Yes!

How Do You Feel About It
And
What Are You Doing To Pass Successfully!?!

I Mind My Own Business
And I Keep My Nose Clean!
I Color Within The Lines!
Other Than That, I Don't Worry Or Think About It!

After This Conversation
You May Want To Change Your Attitude!

Ohhh!?!

I Am On Probation
But
I Don't Know When My Probation Ends!
I'm Facing A Fearsome Foe
But
The King Of Life I Know!
I Sin By Thought, Word, And Deed
But
By Grace Through Faith
I Daily Grow!
I Live And Breathe And Have, By Christ, My Being
But
I Know Not The Day Nor The Hour
When By Giving Up The Mortal Coil
This World I Shall Be Leaving!

Tomorrow Is Promised To No One
And 
When You Die
Effectively ... Your Probation Report Is Closed!

Are You Going To Heaven
Or Are You Going To Hell!?!
Will You Rise In The First Resurrection To Eternal Life
Or In The Second Resurrection To Condemnation
To Eternal Damnation
With Those Who Refused 
Jesus Christ's Holy, Immortal, Incorruptible
Everlasting Life!?!

I Don't Worry About Such Things!
After My Nan Died
She Visited Me One Night
And She Was Happy
And She Said That When It Is Time
For Me To Transition
She And The Rest Of The Family There
Will Come To Escort Me Paradise ...!

... Whatever You've Been Drinking
You Seriously Need To Stop
All Like Right Now!

Why!?! What On Earth Do You Mean!?!
My Nan Never Lied To Me When She Was Living
So She Would Not Lie To Me
Now That She's Dead!
Her Body Died By Her Soul Is Immortal!

Can You Even Hear Yourself!?!
Do You Believe Your "Dead" Nan's Word
Over The Word Of The Living God!?!
Only The Living God Is Immortal!

Do You Even Believe The Word Of God!?!

I Do Believe The Word Of God!
Some Of It Is Really Good Stuff!

He Just Said Some ...!?!

... Only Some!?!
Either It's All Good Or It's All Bad!
It Can't Be Good And Bad At One And The Same Time!

You Need To Get Modern!
Man Has Evolved!
People Know And Have Seen New Things
And Experienced Unbelievable Powers!

You Ain't Lying!
You've Been Parlaying With Evil Spirits
Who Are Desirous Of Damning Your Soul!

The Dead Know Nothing
See Nothing
Experience Nothing
And
Go Nowhere!

Says You!

Oh, No! Not Me!
Says The Living Holy Cutting Dividing 
Faithful True Eternal Word Of
The Almighty All-Seeing
All-Knowing, Ever-Present
Feeling All Things Creator Sustaining Forgiving
Redeeming Saving Soon Returning
Presently Interceding God!

You're Wrong!
I Saw, I Spoke To, I Heard Her Voice
I Smelt Her Favorite Perfume
And You Can't Prove That I Didn't!

If You Say So!

I Do, And You Still Can't Prove Otherwise!

Where's Your Bible!?!
We're Going To Settle Once And For All Time!

It's On The Shelf Right Behind You!

Would You Read This Text From Ecclesiastes For Me!?!

Sooo!?!

Don't You Understand What It Says!?!

Sure, But ...!

... And We're Off And Running! 

But, What!?!

The Dead Know Nothing
But My Nan Is Alive!

Lord, Preserve Us From Our Folly!

Darley, Your Nan Is Dead
Done, Finished
In Her Cold Dusty Bed Resting
Waiting ... Experiencing No Passage Of Time
- As She Remains Undisturbed -
For The Voice Of God
To Call Her Forth At Her Self-Determined Resurrection!

What Are You Saying!?!
Before She Died, My Nan Never Lied To Me ...!

... And She Didn't Now That She Is Dead!

But, But ...!?!

Deception, My Friend, Deception!

Very True!
Fallen Angels, Evil Spirits, Demons
Performing Lying Signs And Wonders
To Deceive ... If It Were Possible
The Very Elect Of God!

But, Why ... It Seemed So Real!
I Tell You It Was Real!

It Was Real Alright!
A Real Lie!

Do You Remember The Funeral Service
When The Pastor Said:
"Dust To Dust, Ashes To Ashes!?!"

Yes, I Do!

Well, Please Be So Kind As To Read Ecclesiastes 12:7!

Now Please Read Job 17:13!


 

And Then Job 14:21!
It Tells How Much A Man Knows About
His Family When He Dies!

And, For Good Measure
Please Read Psalm 6:5!

What Does Tha ... Lord Jesus, Save Me!
I Think I'm Going To Be Sick!
This Is Making My Skin Crawl!

It Should!

Demonic Activity Is For Real! 

Brethren,

Satan, The Prince Of The Power Of The Air
And
His Wicked Angels
Have But A Short Time To Perform
And
Deception Is Rampant Around The World Already!

The Word Of The Eternal God Is A Sure Word
And
Good To Teach The Mind
And
Good For Us To Adopt!

Trust Neither Your Feelings Nor Your Eyes!
Trust Jesus Christ The Lord
The Only One Loving, True
And 
Faithful
And
The Only One Who Will Not Deceive You!

The Dead Know Nothing!

No Matter How Compelling The Stimulus Is
No Matter How Overwhelming The Evidence Is
- Being Contrary To The Truth -
Our Response In This Matter Should Always Be:

The Lord Rebuke You, Satan!

HAPPY SABBATH + SATANIC DECEPTIONS: The Immortality of The Human Soul!

THE FUNERAL

"... In Certain Hope of The Resurrection ..."

"Don't worry about your Mum and Dad - they are safe at last with Gran-gran and Pop-Pop, and Uncle Petey!"

"...  and they are watching over you even right now!"

"I know that they will watch over us! And ... and ... we can still talk to them, and ask them for guidance and protection!"

"Your Daughter is happy now!"

"Your Son is in Heaven with God!"

Two Weeks After The Funeral

Aunt Judy and young Sandy are having breakfast on the back patio.

"My! My! You are looking quite chipper this morning! Did something exciting happen!?"

"Oh, yes, Aunt Ju! Something really, really, wonderful happened!"

"Do tell, Sweetie Pie! What happened?"

"Aunt Ju! Mommy visited me in my room last night! I was sooo happy to see her! She looked sooo beautiful! And, she was wearing the perfume I got her for her birthday last month!"

Aunt Judy's blood became like ice in her veins, and she felt cold! So very, very, cold!

"Lord Jesus, have mercy on us! It is happening all over again!"

"Aunt Ju! Aunt Ju! What's wrong! 
You look like you have just seen a Ghost! 
Are you okay? 
Do you need some water! I can get you water! 
Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Aunt Ju!?!

"Sannie, would you go get my King James Bible from my night-stand, please?"

"Bible!?! 
What do you need your Old Bible for?!
Auntie, you look like you need a doctor!"

"Sannie, please! Just go get my Bible for me! This is really important!"

"But, Auntie? What about my news?!"

"I know, Dear! Just get the Bible, and I will show you something that is truly important for you to know at this time! Please, hurry!"

"Yes, Auntie!"

Sandy rushed off to get her Auntie's Old Bible, well-worn, and ratty-looking and overstuffed with Prayer Requests and Grateful Thank You's, and well and truly marked-up, and so, so, very smooth from much loving use.

While Sandy was away from the table, her Auntie was in fervent prayer to Almighty God, beseeching Him to:

PLEASE, Oh, Lord!

PLEASE, let this Madness of Visitation 

by 

The "Living Dead" 

End in Sandy this Very Day

and 

In My Family For Ever!!

You see, Aunt Judy came from a family long-given to inquiring of, and communicating with, Familiar Spirits, and, as a result, whenever there was a death in the Family, it was almost automatic that the Beloved Dead ALWAYS "Came Back!" to offer solace and offer bodily comfort to that one person who ALWAYS made that Plaintive cry:

"If I could only talk to them one more time, to see them and touch them, and smell them, and to hear them say that they are happy in Heaven, and to be able to say "I Love You" ONE LAST TIME, I will be okay!"

Aunt Judy had been hoping that this would not be the case with her beloved Sannie but ... The Path was being tread all over again!

She should have known that this would happen for even though Sandy's parents had vocally professed their Christianity, they were always burning incense and candles, and purchasing prayer cards for the anniversaries and birthdays of the dead and they even had an Ouija Board and had even proudly stated that "God blessed them with a 'Seeing Third Eye!'"

Bottom line is that Sandy's Parents were oxymoronic New-Age-Seeker-Christians forever seeking Truth but never being able to come to The Conclusion of The Whole Matter! 

They had had Itchy Ears and had, until the day of their deaths, been forever going to whatever was the newest, most bizarre, most exciting, thrilling and deep "Church, Pastor, Prophet, Teacher, Guru or Guide" around their city. 

If "The Teaching" was New and Popular, they were RIGHT THERE!

FYI: 

Aunt Ju had tried here best to teach her Sandy God's Truth, and had made it her mission to keep Sandy away from the demonic influences that her parents had espoused as much as she could by having Sandy spend as much time as possible in her home! 

... Problem was, Sandy's home was in her Parents' house, and there had been only so many reasons she could use to have Sandy spend time at her house when she, herself, lived only three blocks from Sandy's house! 

How she had hated going to, or even having Sandy live in that house! It was oh sooo creepy and smelly! Ugghh!


Well ...

As is to be expected, we learn what we live and, here, this very day, at this very time, Aunt Judy knew that she was going to be battling the very Forces of Hell to turn Sandy away from the Wickedness her Parents had taught her to Believe!!

Thankfully, Aunt Judy is a Praying, Bible-believing, Faith-upholding, Repentant, Jesus-Saved, Christ-Following Christian:

"Lord God Almighty, have Mercy! 

Give me the words that I need to tell Sandy Your Truth! 

Lord, Please! No more with the lying conceits and demonic deceits! 

Help me, please!" 

Oh, Lord, may Your Holy Angels surround this house and 

Protect us from Satan and his Minions, and 

Father, let Your Holy Spirit have It's Way 

As I seek, by Your Will, to teach My Sannie 

The Truth of The Way To Eternal Life! 

I Love You! 

Lead Us to The Eternal Home!

 Amen."

"Here Auntie! Here's your Old Bible!"

"Thanks, Love! Please bring your chair next to mine - I must show you something!"

"Read this for us, please - Ecclesiastes 9:5-6!"

"5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun."

"What does this mean, Aunt Ju?!
Why did you have me read that Scripture, Auntie?!"

"Hang on, there's more, then I will explain all!"

Romans 8:11, "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." 

1 Peter 3:18, "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" 



"Auntie! What does all of this mean! You are scaring me!"

Hon, I don't mean to scare you! I just want you to know The Truth! 

Hugging Sandy close to her heart, Aunt Judy spoke at length to her beloved niece about Life and Death, and The Certain Hope. But first, she asked her niece a straight question:

Sandy, have I ever lied to you?

"No, Auntie! Never! Not even a little white lie as Mommy used to call them!"

Well, Sandy, I pray that you will believe that what I am going to tell you is The Truth. God is my Witness, and I promise to never ever tell you a lie!

First, there is No Human Soul that is Immortal! And No Human Soul visits Heaven Nor Hell when they die!

Your Mommy and Daddy are not in Heaven nor are they in Hell! They are asleep, knowing absolutely nothing, and are incapable of doing anything but sleeping!

God said that the Dead know nothing! You read that Scripture for us, remember?

"Yes, I do, Aunty." Sandy quietly replied!

Do you believe the Word of God is true?

"Of course, Aunty! The Bible says that God is not a man that He should lie!"

Sandy, I get very angry when I hear the Priests and Pastors at funerals telling heart-broken people that their loved ones are being welcomed into Heaven by Saint Peter!

Peter The Apostle is in his dusty bed resting! He is not manning Heaven's Gates! 

Our loved ones are not Greeters standing with arms wide open to welcome the newly arrived Dead from Earth to The Eternal Home! It is just a demonic deception!

Jesus Christ is not a liar! 

He said in the Holy Word that after our death is The Judgment and that He, Himself, is going to give unto every human being what he or she has earned for a Reward! That means that the Good and Faithful will be commended and the Wicked and Unfaithful will be condemned!

Sandy, if what Jesus said is true, is it possible for Dead People to go straight to Heaven or Hell?

No, Auntie! That would make Jesus a liar! 

Wise King Solomon said that the Dead know nothing!

King David asked of The Lord: Who In The Grave Shall Give Thee Praise?

Righteous Job said: 

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

And Though After My Flesh 

Worms Destroy This Body

In My Own Flesh

At The Latter Day

I Shall See Him Face To Face!

The Apostle Paul, in Thessalonians, said:

Comfort Ye One Another With These Words:

The Dead In Christ

Shall Rise Up First

And Those Who Are Alive And Remain

Will Be Caught Up Together With Them

To Meet The Lord

In The Air!

Does this sound to you as though The Dead are already experiencing Heaven and Hell?

Not at all, Auntie! That sounds like they are, as you said, resting and waiting to be awakened!

Sandy, Satan is a bold and unrelenting Liar! Always was! Always will be!

Satan's lie of the immortality of the human soul is one of his best deceptions ... so far! Sin brought Death into The World but, you see, Man was not created to die! Our Sin leads to Death unless we accept the Offer of Salvation, The Offer of Saving, extended to us by Jesus Christ. 

The idea of Death is frightening to us, and because most of us refuse to believe The Words Of Truth and Light and Life, and go seeking after what it is not given to us to know, Satan is able, by outright lies, partial truths - which are also lies - and deceptions, to do a very good job of convincing men to believe that Almighty God does not mean what He says!

God's Word spells out God's Character, who He Is, what He Says, and what He Will Do for The Good, and against The Evil! 

Just like he did in the Garden of Eden, Satan calls into question the Truth of what God, Himself, said! Satan wants us to believe that The Truth of The Word Of God is reliant upon our interpretation of The Word!

Do you know what interpretation means?

Yes, Auntie! It is the explanation of what I understand a thing to mean and not necessarily what the thing actually means!

Very good! Interpretation is how you see something! It is our Perspective! But ... our seeing is not always sight! The Problem with that is that it leads to lies acquiring the patina, the shine, of Truth even though it is a glaring lie!

God Gave His Best

So That We May Be Blessed

BUT

At Death

We Sleep In Our Dusty Beds

Until

The Trumpet Of God Shall Sound

Calling Us Either To

The Resurrection Of Glorification

Or

The Resurrection Of Damnation!

Sandy, Good  Repentant People go to Heaven and Bad Unrepentant People go to Hell ... but not right now!

So if Mommy is resting in her grave, who was in my room last night! Sandy asked, her voice shaking.

Sandy, it was not your Mommy, so it had to have been a demonic spirit masquerading as your Mommy! If that Being appears in your room again, say your Prayers to Father God in Jesus Christ's name, rebuking that Being also in The Name Of Jesus Christ, and asking The Father to grant you His Peace and Rest, and to protect you from Evil Spirits!

Our God is Faithful, and what He says He will do for us, He will do!

Thank you, Aunt Ju! I love you!

Sandy, let us go to The Throne of Grace and talk to The Father about this, okay?

THE PRAYER:

Heavenly Father, 

We Come Before You Seeking Peace

And Rest And Protection!

Lord, We Accept That Your Holy Word Is True

That The Dead Know Nothing

That The Dead See Nothing

That The Dead Can Not Do Anything

And We Implore You, Lord

To Protect Sandy From The Wiles Of The Devil!

Father, We Know That Sandy's Parents

Even Now

Are Still Sleeping In Their Graves

And

We Accept And Believe 

That Jesus Christ Is Returning To Earth

To Give Unto Each Man 

What He Had Earned 

From His Own Life's Work!

Father,

We Humbly Beseech You

To Grant Us Your Grace

Your Blessing

Your Protection

And

Your Provision

And

In Your Mercy

To Help Us To Hold On To Our Hope

Of The Resurrection Of The Just

Unto Eternal Life With You!

Help Us, Dear Lord, To Deny The Bright Liar!

Help Us Ever To Accept The Truth

Of The Holy Gospel

No Matter Who Preaches It

And

To Deny The Lies Of Satan 

No Matter The Benevolent One Who

- In Your Name -

Presents Them!

Father,

In Living Faith We Beseech You

To Help Us To Do Right 

And 

To Live Right

In Your Holy Sight 

Until The Glad Day!

Grant Us The Watch-Care

Of The Holy Angels

And

Your Glorious Grace

For The Days Ahead.

In Jesus' Holy Name We Stand And Plead!

We Love You, Lord!

AMEN