Saturday, August 27, 2016

Our Dead Loved Ones Will Rise from Their Graves and Meet Christ in the Air.

1Th 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 
1Th 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 
1Th 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

We obtain salvation only one way- through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Few who believe in Christ will dispute this claim. Our Savior alone has the power to give us salvation. Our Savior was God in heaven, God who took on flesh becoming the only begotten Son of God the Father. In flesh, our God was faced with all manner of temptations to get Him to submit to the fallen angel, Lucifer who claims his own warped God presence- striving to be like the Most High. Unfailingly our God in human flesh did not succumb to any of the temptations but rather through the relying upon the power of God the Father, He remain true even unto death.  Put to death by agents of the evil one, our Savior was brought up from death's sleep and when He ascended to the Father He obtained full new life, forever alive, forever Savior, forever flesh, forever God. Through our Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ we can obtain salvation from the evil angel who would have us on his side.

Our Savior died for us- the evil angel would never consent to death to save any, he is consume by his own survival in the face of knowing his own ultimate demise. Our Savior died for us- and whether we are ALIVE or DEAD when He returns to gather us to Him, we WILL live with Him.

We have to comfort ourselves together, helping each other to realize that we will one day be with our Savior, He will return for us.  The Bible is a huge book of prophecy all geared to this one end- salvation in Jesus Christ our Savior.  Before the earth was created our Savior was foreordained-

1Pe 1:19  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pe 1:20  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

A Savior named, a Savior chosen, a Savior foreordained should a Savior be needed.

A Savior became needed and was declared.

Psa 2:7  I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

From that decree declared- a time was appointed and the declared Son took on flesh.

Joh_1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

All this to SAVE US from the evil that would possess us at every turn!

We can't know how many have died in Christ, we can't know how many people are sleeping death's sleep right now and will awake when Christ returns and calls them from their graves. We can't know how many will be alive in Christ when He returns and will be called to rise to meet Him in the air, transformed to put on immortality.

1Th 4:13  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1Th 4:14  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1Th 4:15  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Christ will raise our dead loved ones who are His from their death sleep before He calls us to Him. When we rise into the air, our bodies being transformed as we rise will be rising to MEET our Savior and with our Savior will be those we've longed to see again.

We truly NEED to comfort each other with these words of truth! 

It's so easy to give in to despair as Satan surrounds us, warring against us constantly, and we do NEED comfort and we can find comfort in the truth of God's word!  We can comfort each other with the knowledge of the future- we KNOW the future! We have been told the FUTURE! We don't have to speculate, to wonder, we KNOW what the future holds- the ULTIMATE future we long for and can be comforted by. We might not know tomorrow's future or next week's or even next year's but we can know the ultimate future as a true REALITY beyond any doubt whatsoever- our Savior will return for us and for our loved ones in Him who have gone to death's sleep.  We may not be able to comfort each other with very much but this is a surety and it does offer comfort, the only true comfort we can have- our Savior and His promise to us- Salvation in Him!

By HIS GRACE, HIS LOVE, HIS MERCY always!!!!


Amen.


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