Chapter Two: The Intermediate State (4)

In the preceding three installments of this series on eschatology, I have set forth the Reformed doctrine of the intermediate state of the elect believer. At the moment of death and by means of death, which Christ has made the servant of our salvation, God separates the soul and the body. What God has joined together in the creation of man in the beginning and in the conception of each individual human, God can, and does, put asunder. In the body, the believer sleeps in the grave until Christ...