Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Live or dead -may we be Christ's when He returns.

Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 
Joh 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.

The dead will live.
Those alive will never die.

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.

The dead shall rise first.
Then those who are alive will rise with them and all will meet the Lord in the air, and we will EVER be with the Lord!

These words bring comfort to all who would believe them, but not many do these days.

How do they explain them away? I don't even know. Who do they think the dead are that are being raised? I don't know. They believe people go right to heaven upon death so I'm not sure who they believe are being raised. Perhaps they are going to make up theories about bodies being reunited with spirit forms- but nowhere is that found in the Bible, nowhere. When Lazarus died his spirit didn't go to heaven. If he did go to heaven why would Jesus want to bring Lazarus back from heaven to suffer death all over again? Jesus woke Lazarus from death's long sleep but eventually Lazarus died again and is still sleeping death's long sleep.

Sleeping in death is peaceful-

Ecc_9:5  For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing

Dead know not anything.

What do you know when you're sleeping? Seriously. There could be a major catastrophe somewhere while you're sleeping and you won't know about it until you wake. We don't know what's happening around us while we sleep. We may dream, but dreams are not knowing things going on in the world around us.

Psa_6:5  For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

No remembering.
No thanking anyone.

Death's sleep is peaceful - the dead will not know anything until that last trump sounds and either they will rise to meet Christ, or rise to meet their eventual eternal destruction.

When any loved one of mine falls into death long sleep I know they are at peace, pure peace of sleep. They are not up in heaven looking down upon us here watching all we do- good and bad. They are not watching us suffer, would that be heaven as we imagine? They are not floating unseen about us doing things like watching over us, again where is the peace in doing that if they are watching us suffer? People somehow derive pleasure in believing their loved ones are happy now with other loved ones, and they are all living happily in heaven. Sure, I want my loved ones to be happy, but I do not want them aware of all the pain and heartache in our lives. Knowing my loved ones are sleeping undisturbed, and unable to be disturbed in any way whatsoever until our Lord returns gives me great peace of mind.

I can't change anyone's mind on their beliefs and I don't want to, I only hope and pray the Lord reveal His truth to all, and all are open to His truth.  I want everyone to want truth and nothing but the Lord's truth. If people desire truth God will give it to them. It is then my prayer that the Lord opens the hearts of all those desirous of His truth so they will know and follow only His truth. We need eyesalve to see! May we all be blessed with this eyesalve! May we not embrace familiar blindness just because it's in our comfort zone. May we NOT be among the deceived content to remain deceived, blind to our own blindness.

Please Lord, may we be Yours, wholly Yours now and forever through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

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