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Apr 30, 2010 · 30 April, 2010 • 3 min read. ‘From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead’. Timothy Cross continues looking at the Apostles’ Creed. The last recorded words of Christ – and penultimate verse of the whole Bible – are in Revelation 22:20, where the glorified Christ affirms, ‘Surely I am coming soon’.
Therefore God was ready to judge the quick and the dead, for to both was the gospel preached. That they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. The gospel was preached to the dead for this end ( εἰς τοῦτο ), that they might be judged indeed ( ἵνκριθῶσι μέν ), but ...
Apr 6, 2003 · Revelation 22:12. As we continue to work through the Apostles’ Creed, we come to that statement that “From thence He, the Lord Jesus Christ, shall come to judge the quick and the dead.” This section in the Creed about the Lord Jesus Christ is the longest portion, so the core of the Creed is a witness to the past, present and future of Jesus Christ.
Jul 16, 2013 · When the believer dies, the body goes into the grave; the soul and spirit go immediately to be with the Lord Jesus awaiting the body's resurrection, when they're joined together to be forever with the Lord in eternal bliss. 1. Sadly, many fear their souls will have to wait indefinitely for heaven.
- John 11:25-26
- John 14:1–3
- 1 Corinthians 15:26—27, 54–57
- 1 Corinthians 15:49–52
- Philippians 1:20-21
- Philippians 3:20–21
- 2 Timothy 1:8–10
- Hebrews 2:14–15
- Isaiah 25:8
- Isaiah 65:20
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” Read More Jesus does not merely say that he will bring about the resurrection or that he will be the cause of the resurrection (both of which are true), bu...
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” Read More “Believe in God” is translated a...
The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying tha...
Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an ...
It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Read More The crucial thing for Paul is not life or death. It is maintaining his faithful witness to Christ. “Or by death” in...
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Read More “Transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body” echoes Philippians 2:5–11. Those who follow Christ’s example of...
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested thr...
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. Read More A human Savior was necessary, because human beings (children) a...
He will swallow up death forever, defeating the swallowing power of death (cf. Isa. 5:14; 1 Cor. 15:54; Rev. 21:4). This is a promise that at some future time God’s people will no longer be subject to death but will live forever. “the reproach of his people.” The appearance that they have been abandoned by God (cf. Deut. 28:37; Ps. 44:13–16; Ps. 69...
Isaiah uses images from his age to paint a magnificent poetic picture to describe the joys of the world to come. Christians differ over whether to read this as (1) an idealized description of restored Jerusalem (leading into eternal joys), (2) an intermediate “millennial” state, or (3) the eternal state itself. Certainly the expression “new heavens...
Oct 19, 2018 · Key to the next few verses is Paul’s division between those Christians who die prior to Christ’s return (“those who have fallen asleep” or “the dead in Christ”) and those who are still living on earth when Jesus appears (“we who are alive” or those “left until the coming of the Lord”).
Jun 11, 2012 · To say that the resurrection body is a soma pneumatikon does not mean that it is composed of a pneumatic substance. 22 The contrast Paul is making is between a "natural body" (i.e., a body animated by the breath of life given to Adam) and a "spiritual body" (i.e., a body animated by the Holy Spirit). 23 Richard Hays suggests that the Jerusalem ...
