Mystery and Victory
50 I tell you this, brothers: See Matt. 16:17flesh and blood [John 3:3,5]cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. 1 Thess. 4:15,17We shall not all sleep, Phil. 3:21but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For Matt. 24:31;1 Thess. 4:16;[Isa. 27:13;Zech. 9:14] the trumpet will sound, and John 5:25,28;[Luke 20:36]the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and [2 Cor. 5:2-4]this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
Cited from Isa. 25:8;[Heb. 2:14,15;Rev. 20:14;21:4]"Death is swallowed up in victory."
55 Hos. 13:14"O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?"