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Comfort
One Another With these Words
By: David M. Curtis
In February 2003 a young 16 year old girl was tragically killed. Her mother was a personal friend of mine. I wrote this for this dear bereaved mother.
At the glorious advent of Jesus Christ those sleeping souls in the graves will be redeemed. Breath will return and the old mortal flesh will be changed into immortal. The full dimensions of this is beyond our understanding. Angels can transform there appearance; can walk through solid walls. The atoms that comprise these dense forms we see and feel as solid are as they truly are to the angels. The angels whose presence is pre-eminent to any in adamant objects that restrain us today have no restraining power on angels. This is all NATURAL to the WAY the Creator made them. The distance between the opening in Orion where the third Heaven is and the earth is over a BILLION LIGHT YEARS in distance. 186,000 miles per second for a billion years! Daniel began to pray and asked God to hear his prayer (Daniel 9) . The angel Gabriel left Heaven at the beginning of his prayer and came to earth in answer to this prayer. It took just minutes for Gabriel to go what science calls over a billion light years. Angels are the reflecting lights of Heaven not restrained by the force of light but are shrouded with the glory of God whose power is not limited by space or time.
The New Jerusalem has a real Father inhabiting a real throne. “The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.” Psalms 11:4.
There are real waters proceeding from it that we will really be able to drink from with real mouths. With a real Tree of Life which we will really be able to eat with real taste buds able to enjoy the pleasures of Heaven with. “For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.” Revelation 7:17; 22:1-4.
We will be able to build real houses with real hands and inhabit them. We plant real gardens and eat the fruit of them. “And they shall build houses, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.” Isaiah 65:21.
We will touch real animals just as Adam did in the garden of Eden. “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.” “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Isaiah 11:6-9.
Jesus is a real person who we will really be able to hug. “Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.” “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” 1 John 1:4. This same approachable lovable Jesus is returning. “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11.
The Greek view of the spirit world was not a real place, it was merely a spirit realm. Jesus after the resurrection was touchable, He ate, and drank. “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them.” Luke 24:39-43.
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3:2.
This mortal flesh and mortal blood can not inhabit the Kingdom of God for eternity because this mortal flesh is subject to death. We must have our corruptible mortal bodies changed into immortal angel like bodies. “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:49-57.
Jesus has real flesh and real blood. he still bears the real wounds in his flesh that we inflicted on Him on the cross. “Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.” Isaiah 49:16. Because He is REAL and believe Jesus is alive and is real the promise is “we shall be like Him!” Not mere spirit beings. there is no life apart from the body. We need to be delivered from this body of death and be given a body of life. “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.” 2 Corinthians 5:1,2
In these new bodies we receive at the second coming we will spend all eternity never again to know sickness pain or any suffering. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” Revelation 21:1-7
“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. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 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. 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: 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.” John 11:25-27, 43-45
“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” John 5:28,29.
I pray the Comforter be with you and grant you the peace of Jesus Christ. I have been praying for you with out ceasing take these words to heart and “comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:18
