The Intermediate State

What Death Is Like

By what figure does the Bible represent death?BR-ASI9 348.3

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.” 1 Thessalonians 4:13. (See also 1 Corinthians 15:18, 20; John 11:11-14.)BR-ASI9 348.4

Note.—In sound sleep one is wholly lost to consciousness; time goes by unmeasured; and mental activity is suspended for the time being.BR-ASI9 348.5

Where do the dead sleep?BR-ASI9 348.6

“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.” Daniel 12:2. (See also Ecclesiastes 3:20; 9:10.)BR-ASI9 348.7