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This final volume begins with ecclesiology, the study of the miracle of Christ’s church (local and universal, visible and invisible). Geisler examines its origin, nature, government, ordinances, ministry, and relation to the state. Last Things contains an in-depth study of the final resurrection, the final status of the saved and the lost, and the theories of purgatory and annihilationism. He...

“Man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets. Remember him—before … the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”13 Here again, the spirit exists after death in God’s presence and lives on with Him forever; only the body returns to the ground from which it came (Gen. 2:7; cf. Ps. 104:29). “Moses and Elijah appeared to them [Peter, James, and John], talking with Him [Jesus]” (NKJV). The scene here is the
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