We have decided to move to the Birmingham area and work with the Flint Hill church in Bessemer, beginning the first Sunday in June. Some of you who receive this paper already know this. Though this will be my last effort in editing the Examiner, brethren at Elgin Hills plan to continue its circulation. The Lord’s church at Elgin Hills
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Likely due to funeral orations by denominational preachers “preaching the deceased immediately into heaven,” confusion on the above subject has existed. For a long time I have believed and taught that the dead are in Hades presently. Luke 16 teaches this if it teaches anything. However, many younger (and a few older) preachers have decried this as the “traditional” explanation,
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Frequently, the idea pops up that since Christ has ascended into heaven, we now have direct access to heaven when we die (Heb. 9:12). This idea also contends that the “hadean realm” (abode of the dead) mentioned in Luke 16 has ceased to exist; that immediately upon death, we go straight to heaven instead (if we are among the righteous).
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