though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this?”. What does this all mean? The answer is there in your Bible! Let us search the scriptures and believe what is written therein! 

In these verses there are three things we must first observe if at-all we are to understand what Jesus is talking about. 

First: Jesus said, in John chapter eleven and verse twenty-five (John 11: 25):  ... “he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live”. 

Point number one: Notice that Christ is addressing believers in Him. 

Point number two: Is that Christ is addressing believers who are dead.  

In verse 26 (John 11: 26) Jesus says: “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die”. 

Point number three: Is that Jesus addresses believers who are alive. 

Having understood these three important facts, we can now begin to understand the meaning of these verses of scripture. 


In the book of Thessalonians, we see a clearer picture of what Christ is speaking about. In First Thess. Chapter four, speaking of the second coming of Jesus and the resurrection of the saints, we read: “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep (died) in Jesus will God bring (lead) with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede -phthano in Greek) them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them –(the now resurrected believer)- in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thes. 4: 14 -17). 


Notice that these verses found in First Thessalonians Chapter four addresses the fate of the dead in Jesus Christ and the fate of the living in Jesus Christ at His second coming. At the second coming of Christ there will be Christian believers who lived and died throughout the thousands of years before His return. These believers/Christians will live again. Christ will call, they will hear His voice (John 5: 25 -28), and by a resurrection from the dead they will live. On the other hand: at Christs second coming there will be Christians who are still