Thanks domonkassyu could you give me a passage in the Torah or
something that could validate the point of dead men being likened
to sleep? I know [the concept]that the dead are not sleeping but
they have ceased to exist and no longer aware of anything at all
including themselves. They are no longer anything and could not be
said to be anything except nothing at all for they are no longer
something.
Otherwise there is no basis for believing that is in the Judaism
teaching as far as I'm concern.
I'd really aprreciate it. I tried searching but found nothing.
Anybody here familiar with the Torah?
Would the Messiah rise the dead from this state? or once a dead
has ceased to exist he or she no longer is and will not be
risen.
In the book of Deuteronomy 31:16
16 And the LORD said to Moses: “Behold,
you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play
the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they
go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My
covenant which I have made with them.
This is from the Torah.
Take a wider approach, and you will read in the Tenakh:
Job 7:21
21 Why then do You not pardon my
transgression,
And take away my
iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the
dust,
And You will seek me
diligently,
But I will no longer
be.”
Job 14:12
12 So man lies down and does not
rise.
Till the heavens are
no more,
They will not awake
Nor be roused from their
sleep.
Jeremiah 51:39
39 In their excitement I will prepare
their feasts;
I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual
sleep
And not awake,” says the
LORD.
Daniel 12:2
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake,
Some to everlasting life,
Some to shame and
everlasting contempt.
Psalm 13:3
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God;Enlighten my eyes, Lest I
sleep the sleep of
death;
The whole thing about Maschiach is that He died, but rose again
and death could have no hold on Him because He did not sin.
