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The Life-giver Is Coming, June 28
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time
will I wait, till my change come.
Job 14:14
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The Life-giver will call up His purchased possession in the first
resurrection, and until that triumphant hour, when the last trump shall
sound and the vast army shall come forth to eternal victory, every sleep-
ing saint will be kept in safety and will be guarded as a precious jewel,
who is known to God by name. By the power of the Saviour that dwelt in
them while living and because they were partakers of the divine nature,
they are brought forth from the dead.
Our fondest hopes are often blighted here. Our loved ones are torn
from us by death. We close their eyes and habit them for the tomb, and
lay them away from our sight. But hope bears our spirits up. We are not
parted forever, but shall meet the loved ones who sleep in Jesus. They
shall come again from the land of the enemy. The Life-giver is coming.
Myriads of holy angels escort Him on His way. He bursts the bands of
death, breaks the fetters of the tomb, the precious captives come forth
in health and immortal beauty.
Our personal identity is preserved in the resurrection, though not the
same particles of matter or material substance as went into the grave....
In the resurrection every man will have his own character. God in His
own time will call forth the dead, giving again the breath of life, and
bidding the dry bones live.
There will be a relinking of the family chain. When we look upon
our dead, we may think of the morning when the trump of God shall
sound, when “the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.”
1 Corinthians 15:52
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The last lingering traces of the curse of sin will be removed, and
Christ’s faithful ones will appear in “the beauty of the Lord our God,”
in mind and soul and body reflecting the perfect image of their Lord.
Are we ready so that if we shall fall asleep, we can do so with hope
in Jesus Christ?
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