Real Hope for Your Loved Ones Who Have Died - THE HEAVENLY RESURRECTION

The Bible also refers to another kind of resurrection, one to life as a spirit creature in heaven.  Only one example  of this type of resurrection is recorded in the Bible, that of Jesus Christ.

After Jesus was put to death as a human, Jehovah did not allow His faithful Son remain in the Grave. (Psalm 16:10; Acts 13:34, 35) God resurrected Jesus, but as a human.  The apostle Peter explains that Christ was "put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit."  (1 Peter 3:18) This truly was a great miracle. Jesus was alive again as a mighty spirit person!  (Read 1 Corinthians 15:3-6) Jesus was  the first ever to receive this glorious type of resurrection, but he would not be the last. -  JOHN 3:13.

Knowing that he would soon return to heaven, Jesus told his faithful followers that he  would "prepare a place" for them there. (John 14:2) Jesus referred to those going to heaven as his "little flock." (Luke 12:32)  How many are to be in this relatively small group of faithful Christians?  According to Revelation 14:1, the apostle John says: "I saw, and look! the Lamb [Jesus Christ] standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who have his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads." 

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