The Resurrection From the Dead

The voice of the Son of God calls the sleeping saints out from the prison house of death. “Your dead shall live; together with My dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust.” Isaiah 26:19.RR 254.7

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Then the lame shall leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the dumb sing. Isaiah 35:5, 6RR 254.8

In the prophet’s visions, those who have triumphed over sin and the grave are now seen as happy in the presence of their Maker, talking freely with Him as Adam and Eve talked with God in the beginning. “I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” “The inhabitant will not say, ‘I am sick’; the people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.” Isaiah 65:19; 33:24.RR 254.9

Waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.
The parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water.RR 255.1

“Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” Isaiah 35:6, 7; 40:2.RR 255.2

“Violence shall no longer be heard in your land,
Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders;
But you shall call your walls Salvation,
And your gates Praise.”
“Your people shall all be righteous;
They shall inherit the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified.” Isaiah 60:18, 21RR 255.3

The prophet caught the sound of music there, such music and song as no mortal ear has heard or mind imagined outside of visions from God. “Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.” Isaiah 51:3. “Both the singers and the players on instruments say, ‘All my springs are in you.’” Psalm 87:7.RR 255.4