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Where it's all going

The story you've joined has an ending, and for you it is good news.

Jesus Christ is coming again. He promised it plainly: "I will come again, and receive you unto myself" (John 14:3).

For you, that means death is not the end. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). One day Christ will call His own to meet Him — the dead in Christ will rise, and we will be caught up to be with Him forever (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17).

What waits is not vague: new, imperishable bodies (1 Corinthians 15), and a new heaven and new earth where God dwells with His people and "shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death" (Revelation 21:4).

This is the blessed hope (Titus 2:13) — not that you must hold on tightly enough, but that He is coming for what is already His. And you are already His.

John 14:1–3 · 2 Corinthians 5:8 · 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 · Titus 2:13 · Revelation 21:4

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