1. It will bring us Jesus Himself. This is the best of its blessings... Not the robes and royal crowns, not the resurrection [bodies] or ... friends will be the chief joy, but "Thou art coming, we shall see Thee, And be like Thee on that day."
2. It will [bring] us our friends. "Them who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." They shall be alive, they shall be recognized, they shall be gloriously beautiful, they shall be ours forever. Not only the old ones, but such new ones, the good of all the ages, the men and women we have longed to know. What a family! "Ten thousand times ten thousand, In shining garments bright, The armies of the ransomed Throng up the steps of light."
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel
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