of God, in an instant the dead in Christ stand up; no longer are they sleeping in the dust. You say, That is an impossibility. With God nothing is impossible. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we need not be afraid to believe the rest of it. He was the first-fruits of them that slept. He came forth from the tomb, and the dead shall come forth from the tomb in their glorious resurrected bodies. The Lord Jesus will descend from Heaven, and the dead will be raised, and the living changed
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