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The prophet was foretelling of our day, where that veil is thrown over the whole world, this gloom of death has now been taken away, and there will be given unto those people in the mountain the fats and the food that will allow them to be sustained. This is the spiritual revelation of God shown unto us through His Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, and revealed to us today through the power of the Holy Spirit. This veil is taken away and no more are men fearful of death, for we now understand that there is one who has these keys, who has the power and is willing to direct us unto a new place for those who will follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so death and hell no longer hold any fear for the true believer. Those who follow the Lord there is a great promise and hope, for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the first fruits, and the first fruits would not leave His church, the head would never go without making arrangements for the body to come, and He was the first fruits from the grave and we in our time shall follow Him. What a wonderful promise!

Who fulfilled this prophecy? Who is the One that we should now say this is our God whom we waited; this is the One to whom we owe our salvation? If we place that in any other being on earth, if we think any of us are capable to use the key, then we are saying that they are our Lord, and they are our God. We must look openly to the Almighty God as our God, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as our Lord of salvation, and when we do that then we will begin to see that He has proven Himself, that He is the One whom we can follow. We see a pattern put into place by Christ, to prove Himself. We can read how He told His disciples that it was He that would lay down His life in the confidence and trust of His Heavenly Father, knowing that He also then had the power to lift it up again. He was the only One who ever dared to defy death in that way. What other man or what other god created by man, could make the challenge to the world? He proved through His trust in God that He had that power.

We as the living body of Christ on earth, should have that confidence in Him that even if we lay down our life, He has the power to lift it up again. He showed to the people that He did have that power, for we can read where He heard that the daughter of the ruler in that province had passed away. And they called Christ to come to the ruler’s house, and He saw the wailing and the bands as was the Jewish tradition, and He told them she only slept. They mocked Him and made ridicule of Him. He put them all out of the room and He said to her, “Daughter arise”, and she rose and joined once again with her family. We see that what God does in secret is something we should believe in faith. We should believe that although at the death of this body, the soul is destined to go to a place of waiting, that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has the power to say “Arise” and allow it to go to a pleasant place prepared by Him, which is paradise. The world mocks and scorns the Christian people for believing in this, but those that mocked and scorned on that day, they were proven wrong.

We read where our Lord walked through the streets and there was a poor widow that had lost her child. As was the custom in those days, those from the village laid him on a litter and carried him through the village to place him to rest, and as they passed by our Lord, He placed His hand on that litter and instantly those men that were carrying him stopped, showing that He has the power to stop the destiny of where the dead should be going. He touched the young man and He said “Arise”. He arose and his mother was filled with rejoicing. He proved that His Father was to give Him these keys. We see the final example set by Him when His friend Lazarus passed away. He came to the house and there was much wailing. The grave had already been sealed, for it was four days since he passed away and Christ spoke to them, He ordered the stone be rolled away, and many fled, for they said that he will stink after four days. Our Lord said, “Lazarus come forth”, and he came forth. Again, He proved that it does not matter how long we are in the grave. He has the power and He alone to enter into that realm and bring back that soul. He then proved the greatest example by His own life, death and resurrection. The Lord has certainly swallowed up death in victory. Let us be glad and rejoice in His salvation.