Graves

My father-in-law passed away just over two years ago. My Crew asks fairly frequently if we can "go to Granddad's grave". Yesterday we were on the way home and we said that yes, we could stop by for a few minutes. So we drove down through the cemetery to Granddad's burial plot. As we were passing the many occupied graves, my first thought was, "There are SO MANY people represented here." And then I thought, "One day these graves will give up their dead, and the sea will give up its dead, and even the bodies that have been cremated will reconstitute... and those that believed on the gospel of Jesus Christ for salvation will be gathered together to live with Him forever!!!" There will be no more need for graves!

If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
 
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
1 Corinthians 15:51-55