Death The Beginner

DEATH THE BEGINNER
Our life on this earth can be compared with the crossing of a heavily flowing stream or river without any external ay assistance from anyone. The struggle starts from the day we are born and ends on the day we leave this world. The Birth is the Home bank and the Death the Far bank of the river of life we have to cross and successfully reach the Shore of ITERNITY. Our life on this Earth takes on the pros & cons of the struggle to reach the other end of life ie the far bank of the River.. The short sojourn on this fleeting life on earth gives us the challenge to swim in the dangerous stream of life amidst reverse currents and also favourable flow taking us to the Shore of happiness & peace. The guiding “ Light House” is the radiating Love of GOD through the Sun, Moon & Stars.
The Death does open the Door to the other side of Life without Time & Space. At the time of death he/she is fully conscious about what is happening around, but cannot express the feelings as the life is in its transition stage from physical state to the unknown world. As we were not aware of the period before our birth, the future also is unknown to us. The period of our short stay on Earth is the only space available for us to carry out the assigned job and to be prepared for the Internal Life. The soul leaves the body and watches all that are happening around and it gets into the realm of the Universe,- moving anywhere it chooses without the control of Time & Space. This stage continues till such time HE comes in Clouds to take His people to the promised- Internal Life. This mystery is not known to human beings. Even the SON does not know the exact time when GOD the father decides on the final Call. At the Trumpet call the dead come out of the tombs from far & near and stand before GOD for His assessment of the life and work of each person, He had entrusted with specific job. This “Entrance Test” is already been prophesied by the prophets through Bible and we are looking forward that Big Day of Judgment. The portion of the Bible as it is written in the book of Ezhekiel Chapter 37 is worthy to be quoted in this context as it confirms the life after death.
(New International Version, ©2011)
Ezekiel 37
The Valley of Dry Bones
1 The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign LORD, you alone know.”
4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.’”


Abraham Mangalath