10597. The Word teaches that a person is alive after death, for example where it says that God is not the God of the dead but of the living, Matthew 22:32; that Lazarus was taken up after death to heaven, but the rich man was cast down to hell, Luke 16:22-23ff; that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are there, Matthew 8:11; 22:32; Luke 16:23-25, 29; that Jesus told the robber, Today you will be with Me in paradise, Luke 23:43; and in other statements elsewhere.