WHEN JESUS COMES FOR HIS PEOPLE, THE TRUE CHURCH, He will take their dust from graves, the seas and urns and reconstruct them into living, breathing, physical persons. 1Cor. 15:51 — 1Cor. 15:54 declares: "Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, 'Death is swallowed up in victory.'"
In vivid detail, as told to Ezekiel, He will do the same for His people the Jews. In Israel's spiritual declension they were pictured in Ezekiel 37 as very dry bones in a valley. Of them Ezekiel said, with VERY DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE, "Thus says the Lord God to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Perhaps the process, happening instantaneously ("in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye"), will be similar for both the Church and Israel, though happening at different times. Amazing! God can and will do it and then bring in His everlasting kingdom. And He shall reign forever and ever. Take heart, dear believers. All will be well!
d. christen
