12:1-2 “But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
It really does all come down to one of two places! Most will have fallen asleep by the time that the end of time rolls around. Most of us will be in the process of returning to dust from which we came. Most of us will be buried and long gone. But each of us will be awakened!
We will all be resurrected. We will all be startled out of our physical slumber to discover bodies fashioned to exist forever. We will all gasp that first breath to realize that this is a totally different existence. We will all be alive.
It is then though that there will come the great division. Some will be made alive in order to LIVE forever! That is, to exist joyfully in the presence of the Most Holy. Some, however, will be made alive in order to DIE forever! That is, to endure an eternity of punishment for the eternal crime of mocking, rejecting, and denying the only begotten Son of God.
All will be raised. All will be made alive. All will live forever. Some to life. Some to death. How would one be assured of a resurrection to everlasting life? How would one know his name is in the Book of Life? The answer is found in a person, the Lord Jesus Christ! He said in John 11:25, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live!” Awakened to life or awakened to death? Embracing Jesus or rejecting Jesus? It really does all come down to this!
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