John 6:40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

These were the words of Jesus. Do you believe what he has said?  In his testimony about Jesus, John the Baptist concludes his statement with the following: “The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.” (John 3: 35 – 36).

It is God’s eternal purpose that everyone who believes in the Son can begin to experience eternal life now by their knowledge of him (John 17:3 refers) and be in his physical presence in eternity. Faith in the Son gives you the capacity to realize that eternity is real and that the Word of God is true. It does not matter therefore whether we live or die, we are God’s.

In Mark 9, Jesus took Peter, James and John up to the top of a high mountain. In his presence they saw him in the light of glory, completely changed before their eyes. It is as if Jesus wanted to provide them with evidence that everything he had been teaching them about his Father and heaven and about his own mission were true. Not only that, he wanted them to see that people like Elijah and Moses who had walked with God, heard his voice and done his will, were already  transformed and experiencing eternal life in God’s kingdom. They were not forgotten. This is the bedrock of our faith, that the God who saves us will redeem us even from the grave and ensure that we will live in his presence forever.

“The glory of God transformed the atmosphere and brought back visibly Elijah and Moses so believers might understand that death is not the final end. Fellowship with divinity follows because God keeps his promise that those who believe in him even though they die will live again.”