Beetow
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The night was black, rain fallin' down
Looked for my baby, she's nowhere around.
Traced her footsteps down to the shore,
'fraid she's gone forever more.
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say:
I took your baby from you away.
I heard a voice cryin' in the deep:
Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep.
Endless Sleep, Jody Reynolds, 1957.
A useful story, relative to the sleep of death, is told at John 11:1-44 wherein
one of Jesus' friends had passed away, and in John 11:11 Jesus said of him:
"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up."
Now; I have read that story several times in as many years and not once have I
come away from it assuming Jesus was speaking of soul sleep; not when the entire
focus is upon Lazarus' corpse. In point of fact, Jesus deliberately delayed his
journey to Lazarus' home to make sure he was so dead that there could not be
even the slightest glimmer of sensible doubt about it.
"But, Lord --said Martha, the sister of the dead man-- by this time there is a bad
odor, for he has been there four days." (John 11:39)
The prophet Daniel spoke of the sleep of death.
"Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life,
others to shame and everlasting contempt." (Dan 12:2)
Those sleepers Daniel spoke of are not soul sleepers 'cause as far as I know, God
didn't predict Adam's soul would return to the dust because his soul didn't come from
thence rather, it came from the breath of life (Gen 2:7) viz: it was Adam's body that
came from the dust and was to eventually return there. (Gen 3:19)
Anyway, point being: Jody Reynold's best girl didn't end up in an endless sleep like he
thought because all human remains are on track to be eventually restored to life for
one reason or another. The sleep of death is called sleep because the first time around
isn't final.
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The night was black, rain fallin' down
Looked for my baby, she's nowhere around.
Traced her footsteps down to the shore,
'fraid she's gone forever more.
I looked at the sea and it seemed to say:
I took your baby from you away.
I heard a voice cryin' in the deep:
Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep.
Endless Sleep, Jody Reynolds, 1957.
A useful story, relative to the sleep of death, is told at John 11:1-44 wherein
one of Jesus' friends had passed away, and in John 11:11 Jesus said of him:
"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up."
Now; I have read that story several times in as many years and not once have I
come away from it assuming Jesus was speaking of soul sleep; not when the entire
focus is upon Lazarus' corpse. In point of fact, Jesus deliberately delayed his
journey to Lazarus' home to make sure he was so dead that there could not be
even the slightest glimmer of sensible doubt about it.
"But, Lord --said Martha, the sister of the dead man-- by this time there is a bad
odor, for he has been there four days." (John 11:39)
The prophet Daniel spoke of the sleep of death.
"Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life,
others to shame and everlasting contempt." (Dan 12:2)
Those sleepers Daniel spoke of are not soul sleepers 'cause as far as I know, God
didn't predict Adam's soul would return to the dust because his soul didn't come from
thence rather, it came from the breath of life (Gen 2:7) viz: it was Adam's body that
came from the dust and was to eventually return there. (Gen 3:19)
Anyway, point being: Jody Reynold's best girl didn't end up in an endless sleep like he
thought because all human remains are on track to be eventually restored to life for
one reason or another. The sleep of death is called sleep because the first time around
isn't final.
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