7. Which ones will be specially raised to behold His coming? Mark 14:61-62. Compare Revelation 1:7.
NOTE: ‘“They also which pierced Him” (Revelation 1:7), those that mocked and derided Christ’s dying agonies, and the most violent opposers of His truth and His people, are raised to behold Him in His glory and to see the honour placed upon the loyal and obedient… When Christ comes the second time, not as a prisoner surrounded by a rabble will they see Him. They will see Him as heaven’s King. Then the priests and rulers will remember distinctly the scene in the judgement hall. Every circumstance will appear before them as if written in letters of fire.’ Maranatha, page 282.
8. What other group will be specially honoured by God? Revelation 14:13.
NOTE: ‘Graves are opened, and “many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth . . . awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Daniel 12:2. All who have died in the faith of the third angel’s message come forth from the tomb glorified, to hear God’s covenant of peace with those who have kept His law. Those who had died in faith under the third angel’s message, keeping the Sabbath, came forth from their dusty beds.’ The Faith I Live By, page 182.