The Book of Revelation speaks of a time during the Great Tribulation in which men will be tormented by demon locusts with a sting in their tails like a scorpion. Though the pain and suffering will be intense and severe enough that men will cry out for death to be relieved of the terrible suffering, they will not be able to did.
For five months, no matter how terrible of brutal the death of a person might be, they will not have the capacity to die and be set free from their suffering.
Revelation 9:5-6 “And they (Demon Locusts) were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.”
This is very interesting: The fact that a person cannot die. In fact the human body is so fragile, it takes very little at all to end someone’s life. When I took Black Belt Class in the martial arts studio where I practiced years ago, they taught us over 100 ways that a man could die from a very simple blow to his body. During this time of Great Tribulation, nothing will take a man’s spirit from his body. The Lord will not permit it to depart. Today scientists are still baffled by the fact that they do not really know when the time of death occurs. When does a person really die? From the Bible’s perspective, it is when our spirit leaves our body.
The doctors watch the electrocardiogram machine and monitor the brain waves of a dying person until the signal that comes from the brain stops. When the green line on the monitor goes flat, the doctor pronounces that the person has died. It is at this point that all life support is stopped and the person’s body will take a few last labored breaths, then hold the last one. The Heart stops, all the organs cease to function, the person is dead.
Technically, if the spirit of the person has not departed their body, they have not died. Though all signs of life are gone, the spirit may stay in the body for hours, even days as it has been recorded. Certain individuals have been pronounced dead. The life support machines are turned off, the person is placed on a gurney and brought to the morgue. Then suddenly, the color comes back into the body, the person begins to move, sit up or to speak. The person who looked dead has come back to life, how?
