When we awake from the sleep of death what shall we find? A follow-up to In Death shall we find God's Mercy

When we wake from the sleep of death what shall we find?  

A follow up to In Death shall we find God’s Mercy

Where is the darkness that once surrounded the mortal remains of man and will he find that entity again to dwell within its essence?  

Jesus died in order to destroy that entity of sin.  The wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.  (Rom 6: 23).  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.  (1 Cor 15: 54 - 55).

As the mortal body of man slips into the darkness of death he awakes in the Light that is Christ; and this occurs in an instant without the element of time that humans rely upon.   Everything that occurs in our existence on earth is calculated or exists in what we call time. We regulate our coming and going by the clock and it depends on light beyond the darkness.  But as the soul awakens from death it no longer is in a determined entity of time since that does not exist on the other side of the grave.

When God created the world and everyone and everything in it it was for him in the presence of an eternal existence.  That is why this mystery of God not having a beginning is so exact and why our souls are in a life that neither reflects on a past since God has none, and does not need a future since tomorrow is today in human thought.  

We firmly believe and confess without reservation that there is only one true God, eternal, infinite and unchangeable, incomprehensible, almighty, and ineffable, the Father and the Som and the Holy Spirit; three persons indeed, but one essence, substance or nature entirely simple. (Lateran Council IV).

The revelation of the ineffable name “I Am who I Am”  contains the truth then that God alone IS.  The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and following it the Church’s Tradition, understood the divine name in this sense: God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end.  All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone is his very being, and is of himself everything that he is.  (CCC 213).

Therefore, since God is forever, eternal and without end, we too shall be the same.  Waking up from the darkness of death into the Light that is Christ, each soul now is free of time and space and in the vision of Almighty God.  He/She lives no more to die.

Ralph B. Hathaway