1-2. True worshippers have what wonderful hope?

The hope to live forever and to see our loved ones who have died again.  Faithful man Job using logic reasons that if a tree grows back after being cut, how there is no hope for a human and reaches the correct conclusion that being dead says your God will call I will answer.

So it is an important hope because it is based on the Bible since it was never Jehovah\’s purpose for man to grow old and die.

And as the paragraph at the beginning mentions, it is very important to have illusions and hopes because they change our way of seeing life and strengthen us, the opposite of the non-Christian concept that makes it seem as if it were simple naivety or seeing is believing Not at all, as already mentioned, does this hope have a well-founded biblical basis. 

3. Why can we benefit from 1 Corinthians chapter 15?

3 Well, because this is a fundamental teaching, reviewing what first Corinthians says will be very encouraging and will strengthen our faith a lot. 

4. What is key to our hope for our dead loved ones?

4  The key is the resurrection of Jesus Christ and that resurrection is the pillar that sustains our Christian hope.

It is interesting that Paul points out that if there were no resurrection then our faith would be useless, because if Jesus never rose again he never paid for the sins in the heavens of all mankind and although the main purpose of the Bible is the sanctification of the name of Jehovah the ransom and what Jesus did is highly linked to this, so without the resurrection of Christ our faith would be worthless. 

5-6. What do the words found at 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4 mean for us?

5-6  They do involve all our hope because thanks to his death it provides us with a solid basis to be freed from sin and death and then because his resurrection is a solid basis for us to believe in a resurrection.

And as Romans 5: 8 mentions, the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners was Jehovah\’s way of showing us his own love, so that Jehovah\’s willingness to do all that is necessary for us to heal from inherited sin, we may have a hope and That Jesus did it voluntarily certainly has great significance for my relationship with both of them. 

Jesus Christ, as mentioned in paragraph five, died, was buried and was resurrected, so why did Jesus do all this good to rescue us as the text mentions to take away the sins of many people, then we are very grateful to both Jehovah and Jesus Christ for having done all this to give his life for us so that we have hope. 

7-8. What helps Christians to be sure that Jesus was resurrected?

7-8 Well, according to the law, only two or three witnesses were needed in a legal trial, but five would be more than enough and 500 witnesses would be strong evidence.

The story about James the brother of Jesus Christ convinces me because he had witnessed how many powerful and miraculous acts, the teaching of Jesus Christ when he was alive, but even so these acts and this teaching never reached his heart, it did not become his follower, however the fact of seeing him once resurrected was enough and left over for him to become a Christian, so this is an indication of a very hard person the act of resurrection seeing Jesus Christ risen this could incline his heart and be convinced.  

9. As we read at Acts 9:3-5, how could Paul add testimony about Jesus’ resurrection?

9 The fact that Paul himself witnessed it in a vision appeared to him and even spoke to him about this, then it gave Paul more strength to believe in this promise.

In fact, Paul was so sure that when he made the defense against agrippa he was convinced that it was so because Jesus Christ himself had shown it to him, he did not know Jesus but that act, what happened at that moment, convinced him that the rest of his Life defended the resurrection of Jesus as never before.

Acts 26: 12-15 | In verse 13 he says that when they were walking, he enveloped me and those who were with me.

10. What did Paul’s conviction that Jesus was raised from the dead move him to do?

10 He was then convinced that Jesus Christ was resurrected and was confirming what he had learned and what he is teaching and as he had such firm faith he was willing to suffer beatings to suffer persecution and hatred of other people but he was very clear that Jesus Christ was risen.

If a person who was not so sure of what he believes might not endure all that the apostle Paul endured, that undoubtedly leaves us a lesson how sure we are then that that hope of the resurrection is real for us, if we had to clinging to situations that the apostle Paul clung to we would be like Paul in that regard.

Well, we are precisely studying a letter from the Apostle Paul but this letter that we are studying is compensated by facts and it has demonstrated in fact the record of faith and endurance that the Apostle Paul manifested.  

11. Why may some in Corinth have had wrong views about the resurrection?

11 For example, in the neighboring city of Athens, there were philosophers who scoffed at the idea that Jesus had risen and perhaps that way of thinking had spread to some Christians in Corinth.

Yes perhaps also others thought that the resurrection was something symbolic that they had only in their hearts.

This was quite a weighty situation because if they denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ they automatically lost hope of the resurrection so they were basically throwing away the sacrifice of Jesus Christ by putting aside the hope of the resurrection.

And it contains a lesson for us because they were affected by what the people around them believed in the same way today there are many people who have beliefs contrary to what the Bible says we must take care of ourselves and that is why the importance of analyzing articles like this.  

12. In line with 1 Peter 3:18, 22, how did Jesus’ resurrection differ from earlier ones?

12 That the previous resurrections all died again in time while Jesus was resurrected as a spiritual being and was the first to go to heaven.

Yes Facts 26:23 also gives an important detail that says he gave birth to humanity, giving us to understand that he gave hope to enjoy a better life in the future.  

13. Paul drew what contrast between Adam and Jesus?

13 Well Adam caused death death for himself and his descendants, instead Jesus Christ with his death caused us to live forever.

And why because of Adam today we continue to suffer the tragic consequences of his disobedience, unlike Jesus, who thanks to his death then we have great hope.

That is why it is interesting what is mentioned in the first Corinthians 15:21 and 22 that there Paul says that just as in Adam everyone is dying so also in Christ everyone will receive life, that includes us who can have eternal life but it also includes people who have died will come back to life.

And just as this hope strengthened the apostle Paul, it strengthens us in these times and also allows us to carry that message to other people, it allows us to bear any situation that we have to face today, even when facing our own death, and also we trust that if we die in this system then we also have the resurrection in the hands of Jehovah.

14. Will Adam be resurrected? Explain.

14 If we know that he will resurrect us because he is the culprit that all human beings have to die today, so he knowingly disobeyed that is why he will not resurrect as Jesus said that the son of man will be judged as goats to eternal destruction, so you will not get this benefit from Jesus\’ sacrifice. 

15. Who are included in the “all” who “will be made alive”?

15 It includes all those who are in union with Christ, that is, the anointed ones.

ILLUSTRATION

And the image we can see some of them also for paragraph 15 this image tells us that there is Thomas who told Jesus if I do not see I do not believe now he is in heaven and now with a well strengthened faith and helping Jesus Christ, Santiago and John who asked him for a side in his kingdom will now be confirmed and very happy to be in the kingdom and faithful women like Lydia and Mary and the same apostle Paul that we are talking about today, how happy he is right now in heaven with Jesus Christ.

Jesus resurrects as a spiritual being and goes to heaven just as we see him there in the photograph and all these who died in union with the good in the same way resurrected as spiritual beings and went to heaven.

If we know that this is a total privilege for those Christians that is why they are trying so hard to do Jehovah\’s will today as well.  

16. What did Paul imply by calling Jesus “the firstfruits”?

16 Well, Jesus was the first who died as a human and resurrected as a spiritual being and received eternal life and always when we use the word first, one knows that something else follows, then it is implied that later there would also be other people who would be resurrected to live in heaven. 

17. When would those “in union with Christ” receive their heavenly reward?

17 The apostle Paul in first Corinthians 15:23 explains it very well that he is the first fruits, that is, he was resurrected first to spiritual life, but he also says the rest that they are anointed during his presence that is the parausia when he becomes present in the celestial kingdom.

Also, since Jehovah is a God of order, Paul himself mentioned that the resurrection would be in an order and there, first of Thessalonians 4:15 and 16 throws an interesting information because it shows that after Christ that the Firstfruits were the others who are in union with him were also resurrected in order, so that those who were alive were not going to precede those who had already died but those who were already dead because they were going to be resurrected first to heaven and then the others. 

18. (a) Why can we conclude that another resurrection will follow the heavenly one?

18 By the expression that we find in Philippians and it says the earlier resurrection and that gives us the idea that then there is a later resurrection and it fits perfectly with what Job said.

18. (b) As indicated at 1 Corinthians 15:24-26, what developments will occur in heaven?

After having achieved the objectives here on earth, Jesus hands over his kingdom to Jehovah his father. 

And as verse 26 mentions, the last enemy, death will be destroyed, then well this gives us hope that all those who are resurrected will never die again.

The anointed will also be those who have heavenly hope and in their case, they will never die, they will enjoy immortality. 

19. What can those with an earthly hope expect?

19 If it is a logical approach that is found in Acts 24:15 it says I have hope that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust, that cannot apply to the resurrection to heaven since no unjust person can enter heaven, then it has to apply to the future resurrection on earth. 

20. How has your hope been strengthened?

20 Well, without a doubt, it is a strengthening of faith since we know that our loved ones can come back to life, we know we are sure not only that this promise is going to be fulfilled but that Jehovah wants that to happen and that is what Jesus said when he was alive in the earth, also knowing that if I die before this millennium I have hope my future is assured, then all this strengthens because it helps to face trials, difficulties, diseases and death.

And the apostle Paul in Romans 5: 5 confirms that hope does not disappoint so that hope in what the word of God says under inspiration is not going to disappoint us, it is certain that Jehovah will fulfill his promise because he is a God of love and compassion.  

And with this article we understand why the Bible illustrates hope as an anchor and this is part of our hope and helps us face the fear of death for what may come in the future as well, then magnificent and thanks to this that is why we cry sometimes when we hear a resurrection song because it is real otherwise no tears would come from our cheeks.

ILLUSTRATION

The more difficult the system is and life costs, but hope in the resurrection is like an incentive as if Jehovah were telling us everything will be very calm and it is how we see it there in the photograph that brother is preparing to go out to the service and many of his loved ones are no longer living but he has the firm hope that he will see them again in the future and they will enjoy perfect peace and harmony.