How to Die

It has been said that "all men are mortal."

Perhaps it should rather be said: "All humans are mortal" -- unless women are excepted, which they, in fact, are definitely not.

So, is is true - that all humans are going to die?

How about the prediction of a post-Millennial Rapture of those who apparently will never experience physical death, but instead suddenly be elevated up (faster than a NASA rocket off a Florida launching pad) to join resurrected dead saints as the heavens and Earth are being annihilated with fervent heat, to meet THE King on His Great White Throne who will separate proverbial "sheep" from proverbial "goats" as alluded to in the New-Testament books of Matthew (chapter 25) and Revelation (chapter 20) in The Holy Bible?

That is more than an actual thousand years from now, and does not include the Seven-Year Antichrist period within which is the 42-month Great Tribulation period.

The time periods?

Leviticus 25:8 And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks of years are decreed regarding your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.
27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come One Who Makes Desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on The Desolator."

Revelation 13:5 And The Beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and he was allowed to exercise authority for [ONLY] forty-two months [not "seven" years!];
6 he opened his mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming His name and His residence, that is, those who reside in Heaven.
7 Also he was allowed to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation,
8 and all who reside on Earth will worship him, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in The Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain.
9 If any one has an ear, let him hear:
10 If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any one slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

So, we had better be prepared to die, like most everyone previous to us and now around us.

I hesitate to infer that you the reader are included, by my use of the word "we." I realize that I should speak for myself, without including you in on it. If you can tolerate my taking you also in with my word "we," I can live with that.

Someone might add: "But the Bible says that Enoch never died, nor did Elijah. So not all men (let alone women) are mortal."

Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.

Second Kings 2:9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." And Elisha said, "I implore you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit."
10 And he said, "You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if you do not see me, it shall not be so."
11 And as they still went on and talked, hey, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it and he cried, "My father, my father! the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
13 And he took up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

Interesting it is, however, that we also have these little nuggets of information - some of which might refer to the reappearance of both Enoch and Elijah:

Acts 8:39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing on he preached the gospel to all the towns till he came to Caesarea.

Revelation 11:3 And I will grant my Two Witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days (i.e. 3.46 years, or almost 42 months), clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of Earth.
5 And if any one would harm them, fire pours out from their mouth and consumes their foes; if any one would harm them, thus he/she is doomed to be killed.
6 They have power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite Earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
7 And when they have finished their testimony, The Beast who ascends from The Abyss will make war upon them and conquer them and murder them,
8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
9 For three days and a half men/women from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
10 and those who reside on Earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who reside on Earth.
11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.
12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" And in the sight of their foes they went up to Heaven in a cloud.

So perhaps even Enoch and Elijah are slated to die eventually sometime in the near future.

As previously stated, we had better be prepared to die, like most everyone before us and around us.

So how would you like to die? How would I prefer to die?

There are two descriptions of killing:

(1) legitimate killing, called "execution," or
(2) illegitimate killing, called "murder."

There are two cause possibilities:

(1) die by an act of God, or
(2) die by an act of humans

Moreover, there are two duration possibilities:

(1) die very quickly, and thus with a scant minimum of momentary pain, or
(2) suffer a somewhat-prolonged to lengthy time, eventually culminating in various degrees of painful death.

Dying by an act of God would include all sorts of things which involve inability of a human to escape such -- even if he or she wanted to escape. Examples would be a meteor coming out of the sky out of nowhere and falling on someone, a volcanic explosion where one is standing or sitting, being stung or poisoned by some insect or sea creature, bitten by some ravenous bat or dog or whatever, standing on the edge of a cliff that suddenly crumbles, or being hit by a rock falling down a mountainside.

Dying by an act of humans could be:

(1) slowly, or instead quickly, killing onesself, or

(2) slowly, or instead quickly, being killed by someone else.

Killing onesself quickly is usually termed: "suicide" - a type of never-forgivable self-murder which can be committed (not "performed") by many different means. A bullet to the brain from a pistol or revolver, stab wounds, slashing the wrist, willfully jumping off a cliff, deliberate electrocution, ingesting poison on purpose, irresponsibly driving a car into a cement barrier, etc.

Killing oneself slowly is frequently done by living most of the time in a polluted city environment, with smog and/or cigarette smoke constantly inhaled, drinking daily/weekly/monthly-accumulated gallons and gallons and gallons of diet pop with sucralose or nutrasweet or whatever instead of fruit juices worsened by gorging on sweets, eating only non-natural fast foods and/or bloody and/or fatty meats not cooked thoroughly enough, deliberately or non-knowingly inhaling or ingesting radioactive isotopes (as from nuclear fallout from above-ground explosions of tested nuclear weapons settling down wherever on planet Earth) causing cancers to appear in various body parts, over-exercising or under-exercising, screwing around sexually and thus getting VD of sundry sorts or AIDS, masturbating to acquire an enlarged prostate and/or not urinating nor defecting when the urge comes so as to get bladder stones or urinary tract infection or bowel or colon or prostate cancer, squeezing breasts so hard for abusive passion purposes that breast cancer occurs, smoking nicotine so as to contract lung cancer, slipping on ice to break a hip or pelvis resulting in eventual death because of lack of physical exercise, etc.

I, for one, would like to die very quickly with minimal pain - whether by an act of God or an act of some human other than myself, but I would like to know beforehand that it will imminently occur to prepare psychologically.

I hate to consider the options. Going down in a hijacked jetliner? Being blown to smithereens in a car bomb explosion? Shot in the head by some sniper? Pushed off a cliff? Slashed or stabbed with a knife? Beheaded? Must I continue?

It would be preferable for my death to be because of some act of God, types of which were previously mentioned, along with some types not mentioned, such as a sudden heart failure and/or massive stroke?

How about you?

Scripture provides us some options:

Exodus 17:13 And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Numbers 21:5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."
Numbers 21:6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.

Joshua 6:21 Then Israelis utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
10:28 And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it, he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
10:30 and the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
10:32 and the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.
10:35 and they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and every person in it he utterly destroyed that day, as he had done to Lachish.
10:37 and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it; he left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and utterly destroyed it with every person in it.
10:39 and he took it with its king and all its towns; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every person in it; he left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.
11:14 And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the people of Israel took for their booty; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any that breathed.

Judges 1:6 Adonibezek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
1:8 And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
20:48 And the men of Israel turned back against the Benjaminites, and smote them with the edge of the sword, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns which they found they set on fire.
21:10 So the congregation sent there twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, "Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.

Judges 3:21 And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly;
Judges 3:22 and the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

Judges 4:21 But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground, as he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
4:22 And hey, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael went out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." So he went in to her tent; and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.
5:26 She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workman's mallet; she struck Sisera a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

Judges 9:53 And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and crushed his skull.

First Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

First Samuel 17:51 Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
First Samuel 31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.

Second Samuel 18:14 Joab said, "I will not waste time like this with you." And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the oak.
Second Samuel 18:15 And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him, and killed him.

First Kings 19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
First Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow."

First Kings 20:36 Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, hey, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall kill you." And as soon as he had left him, a lion met him and killed him.

Second Kings 2:23 [Elisha] went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"
Second Kings 2:24 And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

Second Kings 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this sickness?'"
10 And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover'; but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die."
11 And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was ashamed. And the man of God wept.
12 And Hazael said, "Why does my master weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set on fire their fortresses, and you will slay their young men with the sword, and dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child."
13 And Hazael said, "What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria."
14 Then he left Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover."
15 But on the morrow he took the coverlet and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his stead.

Second Kings 9:16 Then Jehu mounted his chariot, and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.
17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." And Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'"
18 So a man on horseback went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me." And the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back."
19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them, and said, "Thus the king has said, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me."
20 Again the watchman reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously."
21 Joram said, "Make ready." And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?"
23 Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, "Treachery, Ahaziah!"
24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.
25 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Take him up, and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD uttered this oracle against him:
26 'As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons' says the LORD, 'I will requite you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."
27 When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Bethhaggan. And Jehu pursued him, and said, "Shoot him also"; and they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out of the window.
31 And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, "Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?"
32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
33 He said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down; and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.
34 Then he went in and ate and drank; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."
35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
36 When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, 'In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;
37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.'"

Second Kings 20:1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover.'"
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,
3 "Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked in your presence in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:
5 "Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; hey, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.
6 And I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake."
7 And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover."
8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"
9 And Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?"
10 And Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; rather let the shadow go back ten steps."
11 And Isaiah the prophet besought the LORD; and He brought the shadow back ten steps, by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz.
12 At that time Merodachbaladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses; there was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.
14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?" And Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far country, from Babylon."
15 He said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."
16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, 'Hear the word of the LORD:'
17 "Hey, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left," says the LORD.
18 "And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
19 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?"

Isaiah 38:1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover."
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
3 and said, "Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:
5 "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; hey, I will add fifteen years to your life.
6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.
7 This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised:
8 Hey, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps." So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.
9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
10 I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; He cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you do bring me to an end;
13 I cry for help until morning; like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day to night you do bring me to an end.
14 Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; you be my security!
15 But what can I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.
16 Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!
17 Wow, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.
18 For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot praise you; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
20 The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the LORD.
21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."
22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"

Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been disregarded and avoided by the wise guys, was in a furious rage, and he sent and murdered all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise guys.

Mark 15:27 And with Him they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.
Luke 23:33 And when they came to the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.
John 19:18 There they crucified Him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

Acts 5:9 But Peter said to her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Listen up! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
10 Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
11 And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard of these things.

Acts 7:59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

Acts 12:2 [Herod] killed James the brother of John with the sword;
Acts 12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord smote [Herod], because he did not give God the glory; and he was eaten by worms and died.

Hebrews 11:29 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land; but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.

Whether a saint is slowly dying in perhaps a hospice setting . . . or one is healthy and active right before they suddenly are killed or die from whatever cause . . . it is imperative that the Lord holds the righteous one closely, and the departing one both does not resist (a typical Lutheran-type preference) that but also actively holds tight to the Spirit of God themselves (a typical Baptist/Evangelical-Free-type preference). There is Scriptural basis for both:

Mark 4:20 But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."
Hebrews 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
Hebrews 3:15 while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

. . . contrasted with:

Job 5:8 "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;

Psalm 9:10 And those who know thy name put their trust in you, because you, LORD, have not rejected those who seek you.
22:26 The afflicted shall eat [even while in hospice!] and be satisfied; those who seek Him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!
34:10 The young lions suffer want and hunger [not in hospice]; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
40:16 But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, "Great is the LORD!"
70:4 May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, "God is great!"
105:3 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!
105:4 Seek the LORD and His strength, seek His presence continually!
119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with their whole heart
Isaiah 34:16 Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while He is near;
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart
Amos 5:4 For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live."

Zephaniah 2:3 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the wrath of the LORD.
Zephaniah 3:12 For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD

Acts 17:27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us.

Philippians 2:14 Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
16 holding fast The Word of Life [a euphemism for the entire Holy Bible and its Ultimate Author], so that in The Day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe (1) that He exists and (2) that He rewards those who seek Him.