The Bible records grief over the dead openly and answers it with God’s nearness and the promise that the dead will be raised. David wept for his dying son (2 Samuel 12:23), Jesus wept on the way to the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:35), and Paul told the church at Thessalonica to grieve with hope, because Jesus died and rose again (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14). Mourning the dead Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 “There is a time for everything, and a season for every…
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