Monday, July 22, 2013
To the Family and Friends of Annette Teresa Ellison, Having lost, my mom, my dad, one of my sisters and many relatives and dear friends, I feel your pain and wanted to express my deepest sympathy and concern for you and also share with you the wonderful hope for our dead loved ones, which comforts, strengthens, and empowers me to go on every time I lose a loved one to death and I know it can do the same for you. Yes, as you grieve Annette’s death, please reflect on the hope in question, which comes from the Creator of the universe, Jehovah God. By means of the Bible, He allows us to understand how He’ll eliminate death for good one day and bring our dead loved ones back to life again. This can be verified in (Isaiah 25: 8), (John 5: 28 and 29), (Acts 24:15 ), (1 Corinthians 15:26), (Revelation 21:3 and 4), which I encourage you to read when you have a chance because the promises made in those Bible passages can comfort you in this difficult time. Let’s think for a moment, if God promises to bring our loved ones who have died back to life again one day, this must mean that until the resurrection actually happens, our dead loved ones remain dead or lifeless, totally unconscious. Which is exactly what the Bible tells us at Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 10. Yes according to the Bible, our dead loved ones are not suffering, nor can they hear, speak or do anything because they are dead or unconscious till the resurrection promise made by God takes place and it will because Titus 1: 2 tells us that God cannot lie. Furthermore, He’s also proven that He holds the power over death when He resurrected His son Jesus. Acts 2:32, 33; Acts 10:40) Moreover John 11 verses 11-14, 39, 43, and 44 attests that Jesus, whom God appoints to bring the dead back to life, can do it since he demonstrated that when he resurrected Lazarus and two other people while on earth. So as you await the fulfillment of the resurrection, please heed Jesus’ counsel found at John 17 verse 3 by taking steps to gain accurate knowledge of Jehovah God and Jesus through a FREE Bible study with the Witnesses. Notice that in the preceding verse Jesus compares the knowledge of the truth about God and Jesus to “EVERLASTING LIFE. Yes ENDLESS LIFE, which many will get to enjoy right here on earth when it becomes a paradise where you can be re-united with Annette again in a world free of all the problems we know today such as SICKNESS, VIOLENCE, WAR, OLD AGE etc…as indicated in the following Scriptures: (Isaiah 33:24), (Ps 37: 9-11 and 29), (Psalms 46: 8 and 9), (Job: 33:25). May you be comforted by the cited Scriptures, which give us hope for a wonderful future in God’s upcoming newand righteous world!(Matthew 19:28-30); (2 Peter 3:13)
