God declares he will raise all those who are responsible to his judgment: some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2),Daniel 12:2XWaiting for response the one class being made immortal and the other condemned to the second death (Revelation 21:8).Revelation 21:8XWaiting for response Most of God's people are dead, but when Christ returns, he will arise like the sun in the morning v.2Malachi 4:2XWaiting for response and his healing beams will cause the earth to cast out her dead just as the dew arises in the sun’s heat. This is a very appropriate figure of the resurrection of the saints for the dew is not seen during the night, but at dawn it rises in the atmosphere and reappears at the dew point as clouds. Thus the saints are now unseen in the earth and their resurrection at Christ’s return will also be unseen until they appear with him in the political heavens as “clouds” (Mark 14:62).Mark 14:62XWaiting for response
The day of judgment is coming when the wicked will be destroyed.v.1Malachi 4:1XWaiting for response This is when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to be the Sun of the new political heavens.v.2Malachi 4:2XWaiting for response To them who fear the LORD he will arise with healing in his beams, raising them from the dead and changing their bodies into immortality and incorruptibility. They will then, with him, execute the judgment of the LORD, treading down the wicked as calves in a stall trample the corn.vs.2-3Malachi 4:2-3XWaiting for response The wise remember the law of God v.4Malachi 4:4XWaiting for response for he will certainly do what he has spoken. He will send the prophet Elijah before Jesus in the great and dreadful day of the LORD and change the heart of his people so that they have the same disposition as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob v.6Malachi 4:6XWaiting for response who also will live with Jesus in the kingdom of God. May we be among those who “shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven”. Matthew 8:11Matthew 8:11XWaiting for response