“I need to emphasize, friends, that our natural, earthy lives don't in themselves lead us by their very nature into the kingdom of God. Their very "nature" is to die, so how could they "naturally" end up in the Life kingdom?" 1 Corinthians 15:50
I cannot enter heaven or experience the resurrection on my own . . . . Even if I’m Mother Teresa. It requires surrender to the supernatural intervention of God who alone can bring life to the dead.
But if I surrender my life to God in Jesus Christ, then one day the troubles of “Good Friday” will be over and the magnificent resurrection of (Easter) Sunday will have arrived . . . and we all shall be raised.
The trumpet is probably not a literal trumpet, rather it pictures Moses on the mountain, the most magnificent picture of the presence of God that any Jew could imagine. And then Ezekiel 37 is pictured where the dry bones come to life in a brilliant and glorious display of a superlative life that only God can give.
This HAS TO HAPPEN! IT CANNOT NOT HAPPEN! But forget not: You are not automatically “in”. Have you set out on the eternal path of surrender to God, without whom no creature has a future?
Resurrection is really ALL that matters....it is what this life is all about!
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