Death, Resurrection and the Coming of the

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What We Believe Series

14.1 We believe that when Christians die they are made perfect in holiness,290 are received into paradise,291 and are taken consciously into the presence of Christ, which is more glorious and more satisfying than any

experience on earth.292

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?” (Matthew 7:7-11)

14.1 We believe that when Christians die they are made perfect in holiness,290 are received into paradise,291 and are taken consciously into the presence of Christ, which is more glorious and more satisfying than any

experience on earth.292

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?” (Matthew 7:7-11)

14.1 We believe that when Christians die they are made perfect in holiness,290 are received into paradise,291 and are taken consciously into the presence of Christ, which is more glorious and more satisfying than any

experience on earth.292

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?” (Matthew 7:7-11)

14.1 We believe that when Christians die they are made perfect in holiness,290 are received into paradise,291 and are taken consciously into the presence of Christ, which is more glorious and more satisfying than any

experience on earth.292

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?” (Matthew 7:7-11)

14.2 We believe in the blessed hope293 that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth

personally,294 visibly,295 physically,296 and suddenly297 in power and great glory;298 and that He will gather His

elect,299 raise the dead,300 judge the nations, and establish His millennial kingdom.301 After Christ's

thousand-year reign, we believe that He will create a new heaven and new earth,302 that the righteous will enter into the everlasting joy of their Master,303 and

that those who suppressed the truth in unrighteousness304 will be consigned to everlasting

conscious misery.305

14.2 We believe in the blessed hope293 that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth

personally,294 visibly,295 physically,296 and suddenly297 in power and great glory;298 and that He will gather His

elect,299 raise the dead,300 judge the nations, and establish His millennial kingdom.301 After Christ's

thousand-year reign, we believe that He will create a new heaven and new earth,302 that the righteous will enter into the everlasting joy of their Master,303 and

that those who suppressed the truth in unrighteousness304 will be consigned to everlasting

conscious misery.305

14.2 We believe in the blessed hope293 that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth

personally,294 visibly,295 physically,296 and suddenly297 in power and great glory;298 and that He will gather His

elect,299 raise the dead,300 judge the nations, and establish His millennial kingdom.301 After Christ's

thousand-year reign, we believe that He will create a new heaven and new earth,302 that the righteous will enter into the everlasting joy of their Master,303 and

that those who suppressed the truth in unrighteousness304 will be consigned to everlasting

conscious misery.305

14.2 We believe in the blessed hope293 that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth

personally,294 visibly,295 physically,296 and suddenly297 in power and great glory;298 and that He will gather His

elect,299 raise the dead,300 judge the nations, and establish His millennial kingdom.301 After Christ's

thousand-year reign, we believe that He will create a new heaven and new earth,302 that the righteous will enter into the everlasting joy of their Master,303 and

that those who suppressed the truth in unrighteousness304 will be consigned to everlasting

conscious misery.305

“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the

heavenly bodies[a] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will

be exposed.

“Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of

the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we

are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”

(2 Peter 3:10-13)

14.2 We believe in the blessed hope293 that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth

personally,294 visibly,295 physically,296 and suddenly297 in power and great glory;298 and that He will gather His

elect,299 raise the dead,300 judge the nations, and establish His millennial kingdom.301 After Christ's

thousand-year reign, we believe that He will create a new heaven and new earth,302 that the righteous will enter into the everlasting joy of their Master,303 and

that those who suppressed the truth in unrighteousness304 will be consigned to everlasting

conscious misery.305

14.3 We believe that the end of all things in this age will be the beginning of a never-ending, ever-

increasing happiness in the hearts of the redeemed, as God displays more and more of His infinite and

inexhaustible greatness and glory for the enjoyment of His people.

14.3 We believe that the end of all things in this age will be the beginning of a never-ending, ever-

increasing happiness in the hearts of the redeemed, as God displays more and more of His infinite and

inexhaustible greatness and glory for the enjoyment of His people.

14.3 We believe that the end of all things in this age will be the beginning of a never-ending, ever-

increasing happiness in the hearts of the redeemed, as God displays more and more of His infinite and

inexhaustible greatness and glory for the enjoyment of His people.