The period of mourning varied. Egyptians mourned for Jacob for 70 days - Gen. 50:30 - most likely out of respect for him. Israel mourned for Aaron 30 days - Num. 20:29 - and the same time for Moses - Deut. 34:8 - Jacob (Israel) mourned for Joseph 'many days' - Gen 37:34 - Mourning began at the moment a person died. The family would begin its wailing and neighbours would rush to the bereaved household and join in the wailing. If the family could afford them, hired mourners were employed to add their chants, lamentations and shrieks. Such hired mourners were probably among those who scorned Jesus when He said that Jairus' daughter was 'not dead but sleeping' - Matt. 9:24 - Dirge-songs were also played on flutes. - Matt. 9:23-24 - Amid such pandemonium, it is understandable that Jesus put the crowd outside the house before raising Jairus' daughter.
In the New Testament, there are no mourning, for Christ's work removed the dread and pain of death. Christians are not to "sorrow as others [unbelievers] who have no hope". - Matt. 9:15, 11:17, 24:30 -
When this perishable nature has put on imperishability and when this mortal nature has put on immortality, then, the words of scripture will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Never give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat; keep on working at the Lord's work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in vain. - 1Cor. 15:54-58 -
We want you to be quite certain, brothers, about those who have died, to make sure that you do not grieve about them, like the other people who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and it will be the same for those who have died in Jesus: God will bring them with him. We can tell you this from the Lord's own teaching that any of us who are left alive until the Lord's coming will not have any advantage over those who have died. At the trumpet of God, the voice of the archangel will call out the command and the Lord himself will come down from heaven ; those who have died in Christ will be the first to rise and then those of us who are still alive will be taken up in the clouds, together with them, to meet the Lord in the air. So we shall stay with the Lord forever. With such thoughts as these you should comfort one another. - 1Thess. 4: 13-18 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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