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, the resurrection of the
unrighteous, will take place a thousand years later. (Rom. 6:23; 1 Tim. 6:15, 16; Eccl. 9:5, 6; Ps.
146:3, 4; John 11:11-14; Col. 3:4; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; 1 Thess. 4:13-17; John 5:28, 29; Rev. 20:1-
10.)
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