Each and everyone of us is an eternal spirit

Regarding death beej wrote: "You would sleep knowing nothing until Jesus comes back after the judgment."

If you read and believe your bible, it isn't really all that difficult.  Each and every person on the planet is an eternal spirit, residing in a temple called a body.  We were each created in the image of god, male and female.

Genesis 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Jesus tells us god is spirit, and that we as spirit must worship god in spirit, not as a body.

John 4:24  God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

When you recognize yourself as spirit and not just flesh and blood, you will also recognize that you will never sleep and that those creepy, dusty, bony, bodies in the graves will never rise.  It is spirit that returns to god.

By the way, Jesus also taught that the kingdom of god had arrived, 2,000 years ago and that it wasn't some future time off planet experience.  He was very clear about that in many passages and particularly in response to the Pharisees who were the original Left Behind believers.

Luke 17:20-21  Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you."

There are various translations of this passage, "in your midst" - "among you" - etc., but Wuest a professor emeritus at Moody Bible institute in his literal translation of the New Testament has it "inside of you."  It is there, now, and if you talk to Jesus and to god you will find it there.

You have all your own love, joy, happiness and anything else you want, within yourself right at this moment in time.  It is what Jesus clearly taught.