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What happens to the dead
What happens to the dead
Guest Writer
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 by Sabelo Gabs Nxumalo

 

Sabelo Gabs Nxumalo

I would recommend that you read Part One of this series, as it outlines some of the most basic concepts about life and death. Death has been the greatest source of fear and anxiety.  We spoke about the creation. ‘And the lord God formed Man off the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and then man became a living Soul’ Genesis 2:7. This is the formula: Dust (Flash/Body) + Breath of God = Living Soul (A Person). If you take away the breath of God, then you are left with a lifeless, unconscious body, where death is the reversal of the formula.

Finally, we spoke about ghosts and explained that they are entities from the spiritual realm who impersonate our loved ones to instal fear to exert control.

What happens to God’s Breath of Life? 

Allow me to become a little scientific as I try to explain this part. The Breath of God is the DNA or software in our little human knowledge that God puts into the Dust (Hardware) to bring it into life. This DNA molecule carries genetic information for the development and functioning of any organism, in our case, the human. Individuals are like a building block of a bigger humanity. Like cells in a human organ, dividing and growing. Our DNA collects data as the living Soul over the years on earth and passes it on from generation to generation to ensure survival. 

The Breath of Life is common to all humanity, guiding the individual soul and the collective human race to survive and evolve to achieve perfection, which is the image of God. In Part One, I spoke of the baby in the womb striving to grow body organs (heart, liver, lungs) and limbs (Legs, Arms) to survive after birth.

Similarly, the breath of life guides us through our life span as a Soul, gaining attributes which are the ‘fruit of the Holy Spirit’ Galatians 5:22-23, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, which are requirements to transit into the next spiritual dimensions and thrive.  Note that once we are born out of our mother’s womb, we have no business with what happens back in the womb. Similarly, once we transit this life to the next spiritual dimension, we have no business communicating with the living.

We are transiting as individuals, building blocks and as a human race growing among the many other beings in our universe. We are growing as a race, now we even think of collective human rights, a collective understanding of the protection of environmental issues and the protection of our planet and the animals and plants that we share it with.

If you did well while on earth, then your ‘Breath of life’ which God take back, will reflect that in the spiritual reality to come, but also take humanity physically now one step forward towards joining the other advanced worlds and vice versa.

The Gods with a Small ‘g’

Hebrews 1:2 states that God ‘made other worlds’ through his Son. Other entities or species from other Worlds (Planets) have evolved in intelligence and technology to a level of interplanetary, even galactic travel. Some of these species have conquered space travel with the ability to harness energy from their sun and even galaxies. They have come to earth and posed as gods with a small g and used the state of the dead as a tool of fear and control of the mind.

Some were able to live thousands of years, almost mortal, but corruption within caused their destruction. They even dared to challenge God himself.  Some of the largest religions in the world, by population, are inspired by these gods, including Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and many Folk religions, including some Chinese folk religion, African traditional religions, Native American religions and Australian Aboriginal religions.

The was war in Heaven

The story of a cosmic war between good and evil in the Bible has been told again and again. Revelation 12:7-17 God, who is all perfection, was accused by one of his highest-ranking angels, Lucifer, of being a dictator. Lucifer managed to convince one-third of the angels to join him and this rebellion. They fought and they lost and the Bible says there was no place found for them in Heaven. They had become corrupt. They were cast out onto the earth and found Adam and Eve, whom they convinced to eat the fruit of knowledge before time, thus becoming corrupted by sin. From that day on, they lost their mortality. They would die not because they had eaten from the tree of knowledge, but because God took away the Tree of Life, which was the key to mortality.

They were not ready for the knowledge the serpent allowed them excess to. The universe is full of incredible knowledge and intelligence, some of which, when given to a young human race, would corrupt them. They needed to develop certain attributes first to be able to handle this power.   As much as this sounds like a cruel God, He is seeking perfection. When a child is developing in the womb, he or she must be perfect to survive in the world after birth. There is no room for imperfection.

When God says you will die, then you will surely die and there is no in-between; there is no ‘maybe you shall not surely die.’ That lie worked on Adam and Eve. Basically, mortality was taken away. Mortality can only strive in perfection. Mortal beings cannot live to eternity with imperfections, because they would be corrupting the other world for eternity.

Nature dictates that everything must strive to survive, so the corruption or imperfection within any living thing will strive to survive and grow. And we cannot have that, so death came. Corruption and imperfection are so stupid that they kill their own host.  So the teachings of communication with the dead are all lies because death occurs when imperfection or corruption is finally too strong for perfection.

Those dialogues with dead relatives are not with our real relatives reincarnated, but with spiritual entities who were cast out of Heaven and are seeking control of our lives.

We need to know that the dead are asleep, not in heaven or hell, but simply waiting for the final day of judgment when they will know their contribution to an evolved human species and if they qualify to enter the next spiritual dimension.

Those who qualify will enter Heaven and the rest hell, simple.  God says: “Sleep Daniel until the time of the end” (Daniel 12:2 and 12:13). Comment septembereswatini@gmail.com

Nature dictates that everything must strive to survive, so the corruption or imperfection within any living thing will strive to survive and grow. (Pic: LegendURN)
Nature dictates that everything must strive to survive, so the corruption or imperfection within any living thing will strive to survive and grow. (Pic: LegendURN)

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