The resurrection of the Dead

God's people have the certain hope of the resurrection because God raised Christ from the dead. Since Christ has been raised, believers can be sure about the resurrection of the dead, because it has already begun with his rising ( 1 Corinthians 15:12-28). His rising, however, is the fulfillment of the hope of Israel, that is, it was "in accordance with the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:4; Nicene Creed) and it fulfilled "what God promised to the fathers" (Acts 13:32-33). This hope, moreover, is een not only in explicit references but is recognized in the very nature of God, as Jesus himself showed when he found the resurrection in the statement by which God identified himself to Moses, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abaraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" (Exodus 3:6; Matthew 22:29-32; Luke 20:37-38). The writer of the letter to the Hebrews implies that the heroes of faith in the earliest times of history believed they would live after death, and they desired a better country, that is, a heavenly one (Hebrews 11:13-15, 19).

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