1. What warning did God give Adam and Eve about death?

Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

2. How did Satan counter what God told Adam and Eve?

The serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

3. How were Adam and Eve created?

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 being.

4. If human beings don’t have a soul that goes back to God at death, perhaps our “spirit” returns to God when we die?

The dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

5. Are people conscious in death?

The living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing.

6. Do dead people praise the Lord immediately after they die?

The dead do not praise the Lord, Nor any who go down into silence.

7. How did Jesus describe death?

He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.” . . . Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.

8. What did Jesus say to Lazarus after Lazarus had been dead for four days?

He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”

9. Do saved people go straight to heaven when they die?

Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. . . . For David did not ascend into the heavens.

10. Do people possess an immortal soul?

The soul who sins shall die.

11. When do the righteous dead go to heaven?

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

12. When will the trumpet sound—signaling the resurrection of the saints?

The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

13. In Bible times, did people understand that the dead would sleep until the resurrection?

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

14. How many resurrections will there be?

The hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

15. What popular deception is countered by the truth of the sleep in death?

As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up. He shall never return to his house, Nor shall his place know him anymore.

16. How widespread will the teachings of spiritualism be in earth’s final days?

They are spirits of demons, performing signs.

17. What is the great Bible truth demonstrated in the sleep of death?

Jesus said . . . “I am the resurrection and the life.