Re: Verse reading–Revelation 14 (day three)
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” Consider what death is: darkness, isolation, hopelessness, abandonment, cessation. Jesus says in John 8 that the one who counts on him will know none of these things. For the one who has obeyed the word of Jesus Christ, there will be, at the moment this life ends, not one millisecond of dread or regret—of falling into the abyss or receding into the void. We experience that person as dead, because we cannot presently live with him, but that person will know nothing of the sort. And one day, his body will be raised to join his spirit in a fully human life in this renewed universe that will never grow old. Now that’s blessed. Go on and rescue that word from social media before it’s too late.
