Because the grave is not the end of the story. That's the core of the gospel, that death isn't the end. IN the OT you get the idea that it's a problem, that death isn't right or appropriate for the creation of the God as He reveals Himself. And you also get glimpses of the solution in several of the prophets.
The end of the story is the resurrection, and the scriptures place the judgment after the resurrection.
A lot of the modern American or western mind about the afterlife is really more Greek pagan philosophy than it is Jewish or traditionally Christian. It's very dualist, that there's two parts to us, a temporal body with an eternal soul. But that's not the OT or traditional teaching. We are both, and it's unnatural in the sense of off-design for us to be separated. But, God in His mercy sustains that soul or divine breath, personal essence, animating spirit, whatever you want to call it, until the resurrection.
The end of the story is the resurrection, and the scriptures place the judgment after the resurrection.
A lot of the modern American or western mind about the afterlife is really more Greek pagan philosophy than it is Jewish or traditionally Christian. It's very dualist, that there's two parts to us, a temporal body with an eternal soul. But that's not the OT or traditional teaching. We are both, and it's unnatural in the sense of off-design for us to be separated. But, God in His mercy sustains that soul or divine breath, personal essence, animating spirit, whatever you want to call it, until the resurrection.