The Lord is going to return and when He does, He's going to raise the dead.
The dead are not risen already, He is going to raise them when He returns, He says so.
He doesn't say He's going to put people back into their bodies so He can raise them.
He tells us, Lazarus is sleeping and His followers say it's best not to wake Lazarus, it's good he sleeps, and Jesus tells them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Death's sleep- like any sleep, you don't know anything while you're sleeping, the next thing you know is waking up in the morning. You don't recall the world around you at all while you are sleeping- you know nothing.
Death's sleep is a blessing. Our loved ones aren't in heaven waiting on us and able to see us suffer down here on earth. They are sleeping death's sleep and when Christ comes they will be raised up, just like we will be. Abraham, David, Isaac, Joseph….all the Apostles, all of them are sleeping death's sleep and they'll be raised from their graves when Christ returns. What a glorious day that will be!
May we be among the dead who rise, or the living who are changed when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ returns for us!
All through His amazing love, now and forever!!! Amen!!!!!!!
(Excerpt)
(The Immortality of the Soul, Is it a Scriptural Doctrine?)
Continued from yesterday's excerpt…
II. THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
There is another doctrine of the Bible which holds just as important a place in the divine scheme as does that of the resurrection; and that is, the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This likewise is subverted by a belief in the doctrine of the natural immortality of the soul. The subversion of this truth is, in a measure, involved in that of the resurrection, because without the second coming of Christ there would be no resurrection, and anything that destroys belief in the resurrection of the dead, by that means destroys faith and hope in the second coming of the Lord.
That the event of the resurrection of the dead depends wholly upon the second coming of Christ, is easily shown by the Scripture, which, of course, in these things is the only authority. We have before shown that the righteous are rewarded only at the resurrection; and to show plainly the connection, we will repeat a verse before quoted: "When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." Luke 14:13, 14.
And of his own coming, Jesus says: "Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12.
(The Immortality of the Soul, Is it a Scriptural Doctrine?) (Excerpt)
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