We now have a question from a listener who wants to know: “If after death the departed ones are perfectly conscious of where they are, and are the saved ones a'ble to see and speak with the Lord?” This person would like to have Scriptural references. We would reply to this query by stating that both the saved and the unsaved are perfectly conscious after death. The saved are absent from the body and at home with the Lord. There are a number of Scriptures that teach that very clearly: read the 16th chap ter of Luke, also II Cor., chapter 5. That the saved are able to see and speak with the Lord with whom they are at home, is beyond all doubt or controversy. We are able to talk with the Lord even from here, and surely those who are in His presence are not less privileged than when on earth. There is another question which ties into this general line of comment — “If my mother was saved and I was lost, could she be happy in heaven with out me?” First, we do know that those
who are in heaven are perfectly happy there. Heaven is a place of Joy and gladness. There is a statement in the 65th chapter of Isaiah which may an swer this very question for our listener, it is, “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind” (verse 17). It may be that those of our loved ones who have died with out Christ, may be wiped from our memory —- may just not come to mind. I do not know this, it is just a sugges tion, but in heaven nothing will be allowed to be there that will cause sad ness of mind or heart. One of our friends would like an ex planation of Revelation 9:6 — “And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” Chapter 9 of the Book of the Revela tion is one of the most graphic descrip tions of the Great Tribulation period which will run its course between the translation of the Church and the re- (continued on next page) 7
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