3 Stages of Eternal Life
Welcome to Session 6 of the Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament online Bible study! This week’s video is on the 3 Stages of Eternal Life. Dispel myths about heaven and gain confidence in the future Jesus has planned for you. We’re excited to study this with you!
Here’s how this will work:
- Watch this week’s video session above.
- Once you watch the video, answer the questions in the discussion section of this page. The questions relate to both the previous week’s study in the book as well as the video content. We hope these interactions will be both challenging and encouraging!
- After the video, we will let you know the personal study assignment for the next week in your Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament study book. That’s it!
Before Next Week
Complete Chapter 6–Jesus the High Priest Forever (pages 93-108) in your creative devotional study book. See you next week!
Subscriber Handouts
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Books You Might Like:
- Immortal: How the Fear of Death Drives Us and What We Can Do About It by Clay Jones (affiliate link)
Discussion Questions
After watching the video, 3 Stages of Eternal Life, answer the following questions in the comments to get to know your fellow Bible study friends!
- What one thought stuck out to you in this week’s video, 3 Stages of Eternal Life? Why did it stand out?
- What one thought stuck out to you from this week’s chapter, Jesus the King Forever? Why did it stand out?
- Question 3 page 78: What stands out to you about what a righteous king accomplishes (Psalm 72:12-14)? Why is that important?
- Question 29 on page 89: Describe a way that hardship grew one of the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
How she explain and gave you scripture on each one.
2.when He was going to build the temple and every craft man was willing to do it.
Verse 14 He will resurrection their life from oppression and violence, and their blood will be precious in his sight. Just to think that blood is precious in his sight.
It neat how God works on you until you learn about kindness for me.
Hi, Becky. I love that too!
1. Wow! everything stuck out, it’s awsome.and you were able to make it understandable in a 15 min. video, that’s awsome too.( P.S. I’m buying the book )
2. His unending, re occuring mercies. I knew it, but it became so much clearer.
3. All the qualities that make a good king, are the same attributes that belong to are our good God..
4. For me it was faithfulness. I had to have faith in the Lord’s faithfulness to us through His word When I lost my boy in January 2019 it was God’s word that brought me through. Depending and relying that what God says to be true. This is still getting me through it today. I also wanted to say (and I may have mentioned it before,can’t remember) that although I love all three of the Discovery Series books and studies, It’s this one that has touched my soul. Things I knew before are so much brighter now. It’s like I’m seeing it through a different light. How merciful the Lord is to us in His love for us. We mess up, He does chastise, but He doesn’t let go. When He says His mercy endures forever, He means it, his word proclaims it again and again. I feel so grateful for His enduring love.
Hi, Yvonne. 1) So glad to hear that! 4) Oh, your words bless me. I praise God that he is touching you through these.
Jean E – I’ve never heard eternal life and death explained better. while your explanations during the entire video were clear, I especially appreciated the myths you mentioned at the very beginning. Who of us hasn’t heard those well-intended, but very wrong, sentiments! You’ve given a very concise, clear, hope-filled, Christ-centered reason to ignore the world’s view(s), and why we do not need to fear death if we are born again. I will dwell on these thoughts and be changed as a result. Thank you to you, your husband and especially to the Lord Himself. 🙂
Thank you, Shawna. What God has planned for us is amazing. But the devil (and skeptics) twist it into something unappealing.
Hi Jean E….Today we were listening to Day 6 DVD on the stages of eternal life. We have always related “Hades” to be hell but in your teaching, you called the part that Christians go to Hades also. Can you give a little more explanation of why they are called the same name?
Thank you. We are loving this study.
Hi, Char Hauser! That’s such a good question. “Hades” is used in various ways, and that causes a lot of confusion. Sometimes it refers to the intermediate state of unbelievers, and sometimes it’s simply an equivalent for death or the grave for both believers and unbelievers. Here are some examples.
a) The Septuagint (early Greek translation of the OT) usually translates “Sheol” as Hades, whether it means grave, death, or the temporary abode of souls. The concept of Sheol evolved as God revealed more over OT times. Daniel makes clear the separation of afterlife destinies.
b) KJV translates “Hades” as hell everywhere except 1Co. 15:55. There it’s quoting Hosea 13:14, which uses “Sheol.” Since this passage is talking about the triumph over death for believers, KJV translates “Hades” as grave. NKJV translates it as Hades. ESV, NIV, and NASB all translate this verse as “death.” The idea is that Hades here does not mean the intermediate state of hell (a place); it means the state of death for both believers and unbelievers.
c) Rev. 20:13-15 talks about Hades giving up its dead–both unbelievers and believers. Here Hades is a personification for death, not the intermediate state of hell.
Hope that helps!