As Job sits with his friends, he begins to ponder the contrast of human life to a tree. Humans are born, live and die never to return again, but you can cut down a tree and it will spring forth again if the needs are met. Instead, man dies and is buried to remain there until the time when God opens the graves and men come forth alive again. The disciple Matthew records a time when this happened but from then until now, it has never ever happened again. “The earth shook and the rocks were split apart. And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised. (They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.) Matthew 27. Imagine being there at this point in time! Amazing. This all happened when Christ was crucified and it will happen again! We don’t know when but we have this evidence as given to us from Paul. He talked about this event yet to come. “1Th 4:17Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.”
Paul explains the order as how it will come about: “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel,and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.”
Are you still pondering life and death like Job? You can be sure of life after your death if you know Jesus as your Savior. Call unto Him and He will save you.
