Let us go to him.”ġ6 Thomas (called the Twin) said to his fellow-disciples, “Let us all go with the Teacher, so that we may die with him!” Jesus the Resurrection and the Lifeġ7 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days before. 14 So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 but for your sake I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe. 10 But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light.” 11 Jesus said this and then added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I will go and wake him up.”ġ2 The disciples answered, “If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well.”ġ3 Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought he meant natural sleep. 7 Then he said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”Ĩ “Teacher,” the disciples answered, “just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone you and are you planning to go back?”ĩ Jesus said, “A day has twelve hours, hasn't it? So whoever walks in broad daylight does not stumble, for they see the light of this world. 6 Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days. Since Lazarus was a follower of Jesus and put his faith in Him, and given that Lazarus’s resurrection is a picture of our future resurrection (and when we die we go to the present Heaven, to be with the Lord and await our own resurrection), the logical conclusion was that he spent his time between death and resurrection in the present Heaven, what Jesus calls Paradise (Luke 23:43).īrowse more resources on the topic of Heaven, and see Randy’s related books, including Heaven.(This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.) 3 The sisters sent Jesus a message: “Lord, your dear friend is ill.”Ĥ When Jesus heard it, he said, “The final result of this illness will not be the death of Lazarus this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory.”ĥ Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. We are told that to be absent from the body is to be home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8).
But we can make some deductions based on other Scriptures. So yes, you are correct that Scripture doesn’t directly address Lazarus’s experience between death and when Jesus resurrected him. In all of these cases, the scriptural emphasis is on glorifying God who brings about the resurrection, while there is absolutely no information on what the person experienced during the time they were dead.” Examples include the son of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:17-24), Jairus’s daughter (Luke 8:41-56), the widow’s son (Luke 7:12-16), Lazarus (John 11:1-45), and of course, the resurrection of Jesus himself. In the way John presents this story, he means for us to see the resurrection of Lazarus as a picture of our resurrection - the resurrection of all who believe in Jesus.Īn article on our EPM site about near-death experiences says this: “ there are several instances of miraculous resurrections which take place.And Jesus really didn’t show up to stop it. And as far as Lazarus knew, Jesus didn’t come. In his message This Illness Is for the Glory of God, John Piper makes these two points: Randy asked me to respond on his behalf, so here are some thoughts: Answer from Stephanie Anderson, EPM staff Where was Lazarus of Bethany’s soul during the four days he was dead? When Jesus raised him from the dead, had Lazarus been in Heaven for four days? I searched this topic and found answers from others on different forums, but I don’t know if they’re trustworthy.
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