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Many thought that everything comes to an end after the death. And for that reason, people tried to live their life to the fullest and yet died miserably. In short, most of us believed that life is like a mirage – an illusion, never reaching what we truly desired, but hoping for the best all the time as we could see it afar. But in the real faith of Christianity, the minds of the believers are renewed with the ultimate hope of salvation instead, since they believed in the resurrection of bodies – where the death has no power.
The word of God says in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, NIV-Bible; “Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
The Bible claims that the Lord will bring up those who have fallen asleep in Him – an assurance for the saints of the Lord and a reason to live godly rather than worldly! Mind you, the bible never said what will happen to those who’re not in the Lord – perhaps, they might sleep forever. Amen
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