Who has experienced the spirit of people ascending above, or the spirit of animals descending below the earth?”
But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up his breath, and where is he?
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, you may be also.
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, to go to his own place.”
We know that if our earthly house, this tent, were to be destroyed, we have an eternal building of God in the heavens, a house not made with hands.
Instead, I say that we are confident and willing to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only be above and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them.
I am in a difficult position between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.