Two
Hopes Contrasted
Central Thought For Both
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that
is in you with meekness and fear. (1 Peter 3:15)
The Hope of the World
And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To
your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar to the LORD, who appeared to
him. (Genesis 12:7)
And there is hope in your end, says the
LORD, that your children will come again to their own border. (Jeremiah 31:17)
Your dead men will live, together with my
dead body will they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the dead. (Isaiah 26:19)
And to this agree the words of the prophets;
as it is written, After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David,
which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins of it, and I will set it up: That
the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is
called, says the Lord, who does all these things. (Acts 15:15-17)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming,
in the which all that are in the graves will hear his voice, And will come forth; they
that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the
resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
For since by man came death, by man came
also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ will all be
made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:21,22)
Therefore prophesy and say to them, says the
Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of
your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. (Ezekiel 37:12)
And I will make of you a great nation, and I
will bless you, and make your name great; and you will be a blessing: And I will bless
them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you will all families of the
earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:2,3)
And they will build houses, and inhabit
them; and they will plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They will not build, and
another inhabit; they will not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the
days of my people, and mine elect will long enjoy the work of their hands. (Isaiah
65:21,22)
And I will bring again the captivity of my
people of Israel, and they will build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they will
plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them; they will also make gardens, and eat the
fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they will no more be pulled up
out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God. (Amos 9:14,15)
But they will sit every man under his vine
and under his fig tree; and none will make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts
has spoken it. (Micah 4:4)
D:629; E:23, 393; Z’95-207;
Z’97-80-84.
The Hope of the Church
For therefore we both labor and suffer
reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of
those that believe. (1 Timothy 4:10)
And Moses verily was faithful in all his
house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But
Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and
the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. (Hebrews 3:5,6)
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and
not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2)
Therefore being justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into
this grace where we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (Romans 5:1,2)
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
commandment of God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; (1 Timothy 1:1)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (1 Peter 1:3)
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ; (1 Peter 1:13)
For the hope which is laid up for you in
heaven, where you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; (Colossians 1:5)
The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the
glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Ephesians 1:18)
Even the mystery which has been hid from
ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make
known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ
in you, the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:26,27)
The Spirit itself bears witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified
together. (Romans 8:16,17)
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead
with him, we will also live with him: If we suffer, we will also reign with him: if we
deny him, he also will deny us: (2 Timothy 2:11,12)
To him that overcomes will I grant to sit
with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne. (Revelation 3:21)
And I looked, and suddenly a Lamb stood on
the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name
written in their foreheads. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are
virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from
among men, being the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. (Revelation 14:1,4)
See C:202, 206; Z’95-267.
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