Daily Fountain Devotional 1st April 2023 , Saturday Daily Devotional Reading
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TOPIC: Raised In Glory!
READ: 1 Corinthians 15: 35-58 (NKJV)
This passage describes the events that will occur during the rapture or first resurrection for only believers. The first question in verse 35 is on how the dead will be raised. The last trumpet shall sound, the dead in Christ shall be raised first and other believers who are alive shall be changed (verse 52). A great separation will occur in a twinkling of an eye between believers and other people (Matthew 24:40-41).
The second resurrection unto damnation (second death) is described in John 5:29b. The second question on the characteristics of the resurrection body is handled in verses 36-50. When a seed is sown, it dies first, and a new crop grows from it. In the same way, the physical body dies and gets rotten in the earth. At the resurrection, God gives a new spiritual body that is immortal, raised in glory and power. The physical body bears the image of Adam, but the spiritual body bears the image of the risen Christ (1 John 3:2).
Beloved, are you preparing to partake in the first resurrection with a new spiritual body? Determine to live and die in Christ, being steadfast, immovable; abounding in the work of God (verse 58). Blessed is he that partakes in the first resurrection for the second death has no power over them (Revelation 20:6). Make this your utmost goal in life not to miss the rapture.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, thank You for the hope of the resurrection. Help me prepare to be like Christ.
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