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We must become converted as our Lord. Our Lord was born of Spirit. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and He, was flesh second. We are born of flesh first through the inheritance of Adam and Eve, who received the Spirit of God second, and we need to have this rebirth through this power of the resurrection to become fully converted sons and daughters of God, to be as our Lord, equal with Him to live in His kingdom. This must be central to our faith at all times. We must believe in our bodily resurrection if we pass from this life before our Lord returns. If we doubt the power of the Holy Spirit to do this, we should read of the prophet Elisha. The prophet Elisha was ordained by Elijah. He had seen Elijah do all these powerful works through the Spirit of God that was upon him. He said to him, allow me also to have a double portion of this spirit. The prophet said that if you witness me ascending to Heaven then this shall be so. We know that the prophet Elijah was swept up to Heaven bodily. He did not partake of death. He received his conversion at the ascension to Heaven and his mantel fell on the Prophet Elisha.

The Scripture shows the great works that Elisha did by the Spirit in him and at his death he was taken and buried in a tomb in the Jewish cemetery. His body deteriorated and become only bone.

We can read in the Scriptures 2 Kings 13: 20-21 “And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.” The Holy Spirit never leaves us. It stands ready to fulfil that great promise that we too will resurrect on the day that the Lord returns.

It is only the body that is in the grave. The souls which were previously destined to a place of waiting had now been taken to Paradise, and as the first Christian who was the malefactor, ‘This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.’ A place of waiting, to await for this resurrection day and this conversion.

The angel said, at our Lord’s ascension the same way that you see Him go, so He shall come. The prophets foretold that He should come in the clouds. It was shown to the Apostle John that He would come in the cloud to the earth, not the clouds in the sky, but the clouds of souls that are in Paradise, or under the Golden Altar, the dead in Christ who have died waiting for this great promise to be fulfilled, and those souls will come with our Lord, and the graves will open, and the bodies will be made whole, and the souls will go back into those bodes, and then we will be as Christ, our spirit first and our body second.

Those that live will be converted in the twinkling of an eye, and so we shall ever be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18. What a great promise! What a great reward! What a great challenge! What a great commitment we should make to preach this resurrection of Christ and the coming resurrection of the church. As the infant Church received great grace through that, so the promise is to us that we too can receive great grace in our life daily.

Every minute of the day this grace of Christ is available unto us, but we must believe in that resurrection. That is why it behoves us also to remember the words of that angel, the same as most of us can quote the words of the angel at Christ’s birth. Let us practice, to quote within our hearts also that great message — ‘Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here. He is risen.’ Luke 24:5-6.