Where is a bible verse that pertains to celebrating after a death?

Answer 1

Proverbs 11:10. And 1 Kings 22:36 could also be understood in that way.

Answer:

The above sentiments are certainly typical of the way some men might normally think regarding the death of an enemy.

But, regarding the saints, called-out-ones, the elect, the Children of God... God maintains a reserved satisfaction over their deaths:

"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." (Eccle.7:1)

"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." (Ps.116:15)

God doesn't exactly "celebrate death." He just doesn't view it the same as man does.

With men, death is the permanent absence of loved ones [nothing to be celebrated] -- or, as cited above, a cause for possible celebration over the death of one's enemies; although death in either case usually gives one pause to ponder one's own pending death.

But with God... death is a temporary condition He calls "sleeping" [John 11:11-14 & I Cor.15:6; 18; 51 & I Thess.4:15]. A dormant, dreamless, unconscious sleep from which all men will one day rise for the Judgment in the Last Day.

Death is the end of life as we know it... but in another sense, it's also the end of the misery, pain and suffering from our "sins" -- the CAUSE OF DEATH.

God rejoices, soberly, over the death of each saint -- because with each one, His timed plan of Salvation that shall end with THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF DEATH is that much closer to its conclusion:

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is DEATH." (I Cor.15:26)

God doesn't "celebrate" after a death. It's more like He's looking ahead to death's... well... "death."

It was Jesus' DEATH that gives Faithful men Hope [if not exactly cause to celebrate after a loved one's death], that the days of both sin and its penalty [death] are numbered.

The Passover... God's MEMORIAL OF JESUS' ULTIMATE VICTORY OVER DEATH... isn't a "celebration." It's a solemn, soberannual "remembrance" for man of renewed Hope that death shall one day be no more.

"And DEATH and hell [hades; the grave] were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the Second Death." (Rev.20:14)

There will be no resurrection from the "Second Death." When that happens in the Judgment, at the Last Day of God's plan... all who shall still be alive shall be the IMMORTAL Children of God-- and there shall be NO MORE DEATH. In God's eyes -- the death of His Saints is a "precious sight" -- and man's Hope of the future that, although not now, shall be celebrated.

The Scriptures don't "celebrate" death. They soberly offer Faithful men the reserved Joy and Hope of ultimate victory over it for all mankind... the future Immortal Family of God.