1- Literal, Natural, Physical Rest; God restores physical and spiritual strength.
2-Sinfulness and Spiritual Death; living in darkness and separate from the life God.
3- Physical Death for Believers; at death believer's spirits return to God, but our bodies are at rest until they are raised to immortality and incorruption.
NATURAL SLEEP...
Psalms 4:8
(8) I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
Psalms 127:2
(2) It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.
Psalms 139:18
(18) If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Proverbs 3:24
(24) When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Proverbs 20:13
(13) Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
(12) The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Matthew 1:24
(24) Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Mark 4:38
(38) And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, care thou not that we perish?
Luke 9:32
(32) But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
SINFULNESS AND SPIRITUAL DEATH...
Romans 13:11-12
(11) And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
(12) The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
1 Corinthians 15:34
(34) Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Ephesians 5:14
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
PHYSICAL DEATH FOR BELIEVERS...
Psalms 17:15
(15) As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Acts 13:36
(36) For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
1 Corinthians 15:50-52
(50) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
(51) Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
John 11:11
(11) These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
(10) Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
NATURAL SLEEP...
Psalms 4:8
(8) I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
Psalms 127:2
(2) It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.
Psalms 139:18
(18) If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Proverbs 3:24
(24) When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Proverbs 20:13
(13) Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
(12) The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Matthew 1:24
(24) Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Mark 4:38
(38) And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, care thou not that we perish?
Luke 9:32
(32) But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
SINFULNESS AND SPIRITUAL DEATH...
Romans 13:11-12
(11) And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
(12) The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
1 Corinthians 15:34
(34) Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Ephesians 5:14
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
PHYSICAL DEATH FOR BELIEVERS...
Psalms 17:15
(15) As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Acts 13:36
(36) For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
1 Corinthians 15:50-52
(50) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
(51) Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
John 11:11
(11) These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
(10) Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
