The believer's soul does not ascend into heaven when the believer dies. The soul dies. Jesus describes death as "sleep" because death is temporary until the resurrection. The entire person in his or her spirit, soul and body is preserved unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The "soul" (Hebrew "nephesh", Strong's #05315) of Ezekiel 18:4 and Ezekiel 18:20:
Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is the "life" of Genesis 9:4-5:
Ge 9:4 But flesh with the life <05315> thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Ge 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives <05315> will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life <05315> of man.
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is also the "life" of Jonah 4:3:
Jon 4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life <05315> from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is the "body" of Haggai 2:13:
Hag 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body <05315> touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is the "mind" of Jeremiah 15:1:
Jer 15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind <05315> could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is the "heart" of Hosea 4:8:
Ho 4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart <05315> on their iniquity.
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is the "person" of Ezekiel 33:6:
Eze 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person <05315> from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is the "creature" of Leviticus 11:46:
Le 11:46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature <05315> that moveth in the waters, and of every creature <05315> that creepeth upon the earth:
The "soul" of Ezekiel 18:4 and 20 is "yourselves" in Leviticus 11:44:
Le 11:44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves <05315> with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Jesus Christ, the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Who only hath immortality and was the first to rise from the dead because He is preeminent. Christ was the first to rise from the dead.
Ac 26:23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Christ FIRST and then they that are Christ's "at his coming" and not one minute sooner:
1 Co 15:20 ¶ But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
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