Bible Readings for the Home Circle Part 146

"As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, _when I awake, with Thy likeness_." Ps. 17:15.

17. What great contrast will be seen between the present body and the one to be put on in the resurrection?

"So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in _corruption_; it is raised in _incorruption_: it is sown in _dishonor_; it is raised in _glory_: it is sown in _weakness_; it is raised in _power_: it is sown a _natural body_; it is raised a _spiritual body_." 1 Cor. 15:42-44.

18. After whose body will these resurrected ones be fas.h.i.+oned?

"We look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fas.h.i.+oned _like unto His glorious body_." Phil. 3:20, 21.

19. What will the righteous do upon rising from the grave?

"Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.

_Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust_: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." Isa. 26:19.

20. In what words will their triumph over death and the grave be expressed?

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Cor.

15:55.

21. How long will they live?

"_Neither can they die any more_: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of G.o.d, being the children of the resurrection." Luke 20:36.

22. How long do the other cla.s.s wait after the first resurrection before they are raised?

"And they [the righteous] lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

_But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished._" Rev. 20:4, 5.

23. What is to be their fate?

"And fire came down from G.o.d out of heaven, and devoured them." Verse 9.

24. Who are to share this fate?

"But the _fearful_, and _unbelieving_, and the _abominable_, and _murderers_, and _wh.o.r.emongers_, and _sorcerers_, and _idolaters_, and _all liars_, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Rev. 21:8.

25. What is the last enemy to be destroyed?

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is _death_." 1 Cor. 15:26. See Rev. 20:13, 14.

26. How will the righteous ever afterward appear?

"Then shall the righteous _s.h.i.+ne forth as the sun_ in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." Matt. 13:43.

Fate Of The Transgressor

[Ill.u.s.tration.]

The Giving Of The Law. "Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."

James 1:15.

1. What question does Peter ask regarding the wicked?

"For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of G.o.d: and if it first begin at us, _what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of G.o.d_?" 1 Peter 4:17.

2. What does the Bible say is the wages of sin?

"For the wages of sin is _death_." Rom. 6:23. "The soul that sinneth, it shall _die_." Eze. 18:4.

_Die_: "To pa.s.s from physical life; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; perish."-_Webster._

3. What will be the character of this death?

"Who shall be punished with _everlasting destruction_ from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power." 2 Thess. 1:9.

_Destroy_: "To unbuild; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish; to spoil utterly; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate."-_Webster._

4. How complete will be the destruction of the wicked?

"Fear Him which is able to _destroy both soul and body in h.e.l.l_." Matt.

10:28.

5. What does Christ say will befall those who do not repent?

"Except ye repent, _ye shall all likewise perish_." Luke 13:3.

_Perish_: "To be destroyed; to pa.s.s away; to become nothing; to be lost; to waste away; to die."-_Webster._

6. How does the apostle Peter say they shall perish?

"But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and _shall utterly perish in their own corruption_." 2 Peter 2:12.

7. To what are the wicked in their punishment compared?

"But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be _as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away_."

Ps. 37:20.