Introduction and Overview
INTRODUCTION TO THE AFTERLIFE STUDY
I began writing this study of the afterlife in response to questions from individuals, including two pastors, over a period of a couple of years. I conducted several topical studies to answer these questions and they ended up coalescing into this more comprehensive study of the afterlife.. I had certainly touched on this topic quite a bit as I had researched and written scores of topical studies on Bible prophecy. Those topics often deal extensively with the afterlife, but I had not previously focused on the afterlife as a topic of its own.
The first few topical studies that we will be presenting here could be quite helpful to those who provide help and counsel to either those who are dying or to their loved ones. In fact, this is a topic that we will all have to face one day, so I would expect that it could be helpful to many people, especially those who believe the Bible to be a true and reliable book. The short summaries on the next couple of pages are a good place to start. Many of the interpretations are my own and my only references were the NIV Bible and Greek-English and Hebrew-English in the BLB Interlinear Lexicons.