“I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet—when I come again—shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me—when I come again—shall never die.”
Nor is this a fictional fancy of mine, but the direct declaration of the Holy Spirit to the Church speaking through the Apostle Paul; for he says:
“Behold, I shew 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 (and not till then—not when we die and go to heaven, but when the dead are raised and the living are changed—then—and not till then) shall be brought to pass the saying that is written (written by the Prophet Isaiah in the twenty-fifth chapter of his prophecy), death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
And mark it well, the context of this Holy Ghost promise is the declaration that the resurrection of the dead, the transfiguration of the living, this changing from mortality to immortality will be the resurrection and the transfiguration of those who are “Christ’s at His coming.”
Yes! He will come.