'l'HE IMPOR'l'ANCE o~• 'l'IlE TRUTH
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doctrine with which God commands us to com fort sorrowing saints. When death had be gun to thin the ranks of the believers in Thes salonica, and hearts were aching over separa tion from ·those who bad fallen asleep, the Apostle Paul wrote, ''But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the ciouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, conifort one another with these words" (I Thess. 4 :13-18). Afl "these words" have entirely to do with the Second Coming of Christ, it is evident that the one doctrine with which God commands us to comfort those in sorrow over the loss of loved
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