There Is Nothing More Wonderful For The Faithful Than The Resurrection Which Will Take Place When Jesus Returns. There Is The Prize Of Eternal Life Which Will Be Awarded To The Faithful, Dead Or Alive, At Christ’s Return.
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•“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars for ever and ever” (Daniel 12:2-3).
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•“And you will be blessed…for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just” (Luke 14:14).
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•“…for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth – those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation” (John 5:28-29).
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•“And this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:40).
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•“There will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust” (Acts 24:15).
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•“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
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•“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10).
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•“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:16).