Death: Tales from the Script
There’s an old scary show that you may have seen or heard of that has a Halloween approach to death and the after life called “Tales From The Crypt.” In every generation it seems that man has had a morbid curiosity about death, and many of the longstanding traditions and superstitions that now exist in many cultures are evidence of this fact.
Man has many thoughts and imaginations about death.
The Bible certainly speaks of death and gives us a few hints as to what happens when a person dies (e.g., Lk. 16:19-31); in fact it even records some very interesting and bizarre events surrounding death (e.g., 1 Sam. 28:3-19; 2 Kings 13:21); and all of these events were made possible because of the power of God. That should be sufficient, yet man is not content with that; he wants to know more than what God revealed about death. Because of this, fact is often confused with fiction and speculation becomes the standard for what is truth instead of God’s word.
The fact is the Bible just doesn’t say as much as we would like it to say about death. Friends, let us be content with this: “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law” (Deut. 29:29).