The Final Healing

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No human language can portray the scenes of the second coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven. Christ will come in His own glory, in the glory of His Father, and in the glory of the holy angels. Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of angels, the beautiful, triumphant sons of God, possessing surpassing loveliness and glory, will escort Him on His way. In the place of a crown of thorns, He will wear a crown of glory— a crown within a crown. In the place of that old purple robe, He will be clothed in a garment of whitest white. And on His vesture and on His thigh a name will be written, "King of Kings, and Lord of Lords" (Rev. 19:16).

Christ comes on a cloud
The King of kings descends upon the cloud, wrapped in flaming fire. The heavens are rolled together as a scroll, the earth trembles before Him, and every mountain and island is moved out of its place.

Amid the reeling of the earth, the flash of lightning, and the roar of thunder, the voice of the Son of God calls forth the sleeping saints. He looks upon the graves of the righteous, then, raising His hands to heaven, He cries: "Awake, awake, awake, ye that sleep in the dust, and arise!" Throughout the length and breadth of the earth the dead shall hear that voice, and they that hear shall live. And the whole earth shall ring with the tread of the exceeding great army of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. From the prison house of death they come, clothed with immortal glory, crying: "O death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory?" (1 Corinthians 15:55). And the living righteous and the risen saints unite their voices in a long, glad shout of victory.

Vigor of eternal youth
All come forth from their graves the same in stature as when they entered the tomb. But all arise with the freshness and vigor of eternal youth. The mortal, corruptible form, devoid of comeliness, once polluted with sin, becomes perfect, beautiful, and immortal. All blemishes and deformities are left in the grave.

The living righteous are changed "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." At the voice of God they were glorified; now they are made immortal and with the risen saints are caught up to meet their Lord in the air. Angels "gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."

Friends recognize each other
We shall know our friends, even as the disciples knew Jesus. They may have been deformed, diseased, or disfigured in this mortal life, but they rise in perfect health and symmetry; yet in the glorified body their identity will be perfectly preserved. In the face radiant with the light shining from the face of Jesus, we shall recognize those we love. Friends long separated by death are united, nevermore to part, and with songs of gladness ascend together to the City of God.

Pain and death gone
Pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of heaven. There will be no more tears, no funeral trains, no badges of mourning. "There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying: ... for the former things are passed away." "The inhabitant shall not say, l am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity" Revelation 21:4; Isaiah 33:24.

The redeemed saints, who have loved God and kept His commandments here, will enter in through the gates of the city, and have right to the tree of life. They will eat freely of it as our first parents did before their fall. The leaves of that immortal widespread tree will be for the healing of the nations. All their woes will then be gone. Sickness, sorrow, and death they will never again feel, for the leaves of the tree of life have healed them. Jesus will then see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied, when the redeemed, who have been subject to sorrow, toil, and afflictions, who have groaned beneath the curse, are gathered up around that tree of life to eat of its immortal fruit.

--This is the last article in this magazine.--