Step Seven—State of the Dead, Death and Resurrection

What happens when we die? “The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is our life, appears, the resurrected righteous and the living righteous will be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord. The second resurrection, a resurrection of the unrighteous, will take place a thousand years later.”—Seventh-day Adventists Believe, p. 391.JTL7 1.3