the appointed time, and it shall not be able to hold them. • — A glorious angel was a witness of His rising, and glorious angels shall be the messengers who shall gather believers when they rise again. — He rose with a renewed body, and yet a body, real, true, and material, and so also shall His people have a glorious body, and be like their Head. — " When we see Him we shall be like Him." (1 John iii. 2.)
Let us take comfort in this thought. Trial, sorrow, and persecution are often the portion of God's people. Sickness, weakness, and pain often hurt and wear their poor earthly tabernacle. But their good time is yet to come. Let them wait patiently, and they shall have a glorious resurrection. When we die, and where we are buried, and what kind of a funeral we have, matters little. The great question to be asked is this, " How shall we rise again ?"
Let us notice in the next place, the terror which Chrisfs enemies felt at the period of His resurrection. We are told that at the sight of the angel, " the keepers did shake and become as dead men.'' Those hardy Koraan soldiers, though not unused to dreadful sights, saw a sight which made them quail. Their courage melted at once at the appearance of one angel of God.
Let us again see in this fact, a type and emblem of things yet to come. What will the ungodly and the wicked do at the last day, when the trumpet shall sound, and Christ shall come in glory to judge the world ? What will they do, when they see all the dead, both small and great, coming forth from their graves, and all the angels of God assembled round the great white throne ?