REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Forty - The Rest of the Dead - Conclusion

 Similary, pre-Christian witnesses of Jehovah were declared righteous as to friendship with God, and Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were spoken of as "living" even though they were physucakkt dead. (Matthew 22:31, 32; James 2:21, 23) However, they and all others who were resurrected, as well as the great crowd of faithful other sheep who survivie Armageddon and any children that may be born to these in the new world, must yet be raised to human perfection. This will be accomlished by Christ and his associate kings and priests during  the thousand-year Judgment Day, on the basis of Jesus' ransom sacrifice. By the end of that Day, "the rest of the dead" will have  "come to life" in the sense that they will be perfect humans. As we shall see, they must then pass a final test, but they will face that test as perfect humans.  When they pass the test,  God will declare them worthy of living forever, righteous in the fullest sense.  They will experience the conplete fulfillment of  the promise: "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will residce forever upon it." (Psalm 37:29) What a delightful future is in store for obedient mankind!

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