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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 4.

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To Correspondents.

D. BRIGGS: We understand that Jesus, in John 11:25, 26, carries the mind forward to the time of the resurrection. He said, “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” When shall he live? At the resurrection at the last day. This is the time, and not before. And he continues: “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” Liveth, when? Why, at the time he had first spoken of, when believers who now are dead live again, at the resurrection. That is, whosoever is alive at the time when the resurrection of the righteous takes place, and is then found believing in Christ, he shall never die, but, as the Scriptures elsewhere inform us, shall be translated, without seeing death, into the kingdom of God. Thus this language of Christ, instead of being a dark saying, becomes a most comforting and cheering promise.