Things known only to God.
The fact is that Jesus did go somewhere and preached to someone. He did not immediately go to heaven, nor the repentant thief and neither do dead Christians. Who do not get another chance at Salvation.
The idea that he would go to preach to anyone but humans is insane, but you won't even admit that. The gospel is for humans, not angels.
You directly oppose scripture; The dead know nothing and the dead 'sleep in their graves. Eccl 9:5, Acts 13:36
You misinterpret much scripture and take it out of context. You read verses in isolation and draw conclusions from them by just skimming the surface and do not make the effort to look at context and look into the verses in depth. That's laziness on your part. Take a closer look at these verses in context for once.
Ecclesiastes 9:4 4 Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! 5 For
the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. 6
Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.
The context of Eccl 9:5 is in terms of one's life while they are physically alive. When they die, they no longer know anything in the sense of being physically alive. It says nothing about their awareness while physically dead, it's only commenting on the fact that they are physically dead and will not be physically alive on the earth again. That is the context. You drew a conclusion by only reading verse 5 while failing to see the context of that verse shown in verse 6.
Verse 6 says "Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.". It simply says they are physically dead and will never be physically alive on the earth again. They will never love, hate, be jealous or do anything under the sun (on earth) while physically alive again because they are dead. They "know nothing" only in that sense. It does not mean they know nothing in the spiritual realm.
Acts 13:36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation,
he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and
his body decayed.
Again, you are missing the context. This is ONLY speaking of David's BODY and says nothing about his soul and spirit. So, you can't use this verse to support your false doctrine, either. If you removed the verses that you take out of context from your list of verses that you use to support your false doctrine of soul sleep, you are left with nothing.
Jesus spoke to Moses and Elijah at His transfiguration. Were they talking to Him in their sleep? No, they were obviously conscious. So, your soul sleep doctrine is clearly false but you are too prideful to admit it.
Of course for an AMill believer, to reject plainly stated scripture, is just par for the course.
What you think is plainly stated scripture is not as plain as you think, but you are too lazy to take a closer look at it. You believe what you want to believe.
Flawed? I'll tell you whats flawed; the incredible idea of Jesus reigning now and ever since He Ascended.
LOL! That is EXPLICITLY taught in scripture, so you are fighting with scripture on that one!
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17
When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Ephesians 1:19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as
the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
These scriptures couldn't be more clear that He reigns now over all things in heaven and in earth. It is foolish to say otherwise.
It is obvious to any history buff, or those cognisant of their surroundings, that the God of Creation is not now in charge of human affairs.
That is a foolish thing to say. Name one thing that occurs on earth that God has no control over and that happens without Him allowing it to happen?
Only at the glorious Return, seen by all, will the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, take up his rightful rule,
Total nonsense. He rules now and it is very sad that you don't recognize it. Is He not your King right now? Scripture says we are in His kingdom NOW!
Colossians 1:12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For
he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
