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Royalty and Ruin
with all the holy angels to gather the remnant church from among
the nations of earth, he hears the elated cry:
“Behold, this is our God;
We have waited for Him, and He will save us.
This is the Lord;
We have waited for Him;
We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”
Verse 9
The Resurrection From the Dead
The voice of the Son of God calls the sleeping saints out from
the prison house of death. “Your dead shall live; together with My
dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust.”
Isaiah 26:19
.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Then the lame shall leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the dumb sing.
Isaiah 35:5, 6
In the prophet’s visions, those who have triumphed over sin and
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the grave are now seen as happy in the presence of their Maker,
talking freely with Him as Adam and Eve talked with God in the
beginning. “I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the
voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of
crying.” “The inhabitant will not say, ‘I am sick’; the people who
dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.”
Isaiah 65:19
;
33:24
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Waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.
The parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water.