Lord’s Day 12: Death and the World to Come #

40: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?  #

The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.

(Heb. 12:23; 2 Cor. 5:1, 6, 8; Phil. 1:23; Luke 23:43; 1 Thess. 4:14; Job 19:26, 27; Is. 57:2)

41: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?  #

At the resurrection believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged, and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed, both in soul and body, in the full enjoyment of God to all eternity.

(1 Cor. 15:43; Mt. 25:23; Mt. 10:32; 1 John 3:2; 1 Cor. 13:12; 1 Thess. 4:17, 18)

42: But what shall be done to the wicked at their death?  #

The souls of the wicked shall, at their death, be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves, till the resurrection and judgment of the great day.

(Luke 16:23, 24; Acts 2:24; Jude 5, 7; 1 Pet. 3:19; Ps. 49:14)

43: What shall be done to the wicked, at the day of judgment?  #

At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked, being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever. 

(John 5:28, 29; Mt. 25:41, 46; 2 Thes. 1:8, 9)