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Question for all jehovah's witnesses on here about John:11:25-26

Frank Goad

Well-Known Member
In John 11:25-26 jesus says if you die you will come back to life.But it also says if you die and believe in jesus you will never die.I am confused.:confused:
 

Jeremiah Ames

Well-Known Member
Luke 9:60 Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

So, it appears there were people who were dead while alive.
So, do the living dead people that Jesus spoke of in Luke 9:60 come back to life and then die before coming back to life?

Just curious.

I hope I didn’t add to your confusion.
 

The Reverend Bob

Fart Machine and Beastmaster
Frank, Jesus was talking about those dead in sin coming back to life, in his day if you were a sinner you were cut off from the community and considered as good as dead and Jesus sought to restore those dead in sin back to the community and therefore life
 

Hockeycowboy

Witness for Jehovah
Premium Member
When is the time, where it is saying, “yet shall he live.”? It is at the Resurrection, which occurs “in the last day.” — John 6 40,44.

So those living, who “never die at all”, will also be in the last day.

(If the teaching of an immortal soul had never gotten so prevalent, there’d be no problem in understanding this. That false teaching really ‘muddies the waters’!)

What does “Resurrection” really mean, Frank?

There can be no ‘resurrection’ for something ‘immortal’. Because how something ‘come back to life’, if it’s already living?
 

Deeje

Avid Bible Student
Premium Member
In John 11:25-26 jesus says if you die you will come back to life.But it also says if you die and believe in jesus you will never die.I am confused.:confused:

John 11...21-27...
"Martha then said to Jesus: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 Yet even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” 24 Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; 26 and everyone who is living and exercises faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him: “Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”

What does the context tell you?
Martha expressed the regret that Jesus was not there when Lazarus was sick, other wise he could have healed him and prevented him from dying.

In saying that "your brother will rise", Martha confirmed her belief in the resurrection "on the last day" or when Jesus rules in his kingdom of 1,000 years. But Jesus assured her that he was the one appointed to resurrect the dead and that even if Lazarus had died, he would live again...but in this case it would be immediate.

When Jesus said that "everyone who is living and exercises faith in me will never die at all" meant that those alive when Jesus returns will not have to sleep in death at all....they will be carried through to everlasting life without ever having to sleep in death.

For those who will rule with Christ, it is said that they will be transformed "in the twinkling of an eye" and join Jesus in heaven. But those who are part of the "great crowd" spoken of in Revelation 7:9-10 & Revelation 7:13-14 will be survivors of the great tribulation which is to occur on earth. They too will never have to sleep in death.
 
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