In The Twinkling Of An Eye

 

"Take notice! I tell you a mystery, a secret truth, an event
decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God.
 We shall not all fall asleep in death, but we shall be
changed, transformed.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound
of the last trumpet call.  For the trumpet will sound, and the
dead in Christ will be raised imperishable, free and immune
from decay, and we shall be changed, transformed.

For this perishable part of us must put on the imperishable
nature and this mortal part of us, this nature that is capable
of dying must put on immorality, freedom from death.

And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this
that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall
be fulfilled the Scripture that says, "Death is swallowed up,
utterly vanished forever in and unto victory.

O death, where is your victory?  O death, where is your sting?

Now sin is the sting of death, and sin exercises its power upon
the soul through the abuse of the Law.

But thanks be to God, Who gives us victory, making us conquerors,
through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be firm, steadfast, immovable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord, always being superior,
excelling, doing more than enough in the service of the Lord,
knowing and being continually aware that your labor in
the Lord is not futile, it is never wasted, or to no purpose."
1 Corinthians 15:51-58

"In The Twinkling Of An Eye"

Jack E. Dawson

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When the trump of the great archangel

Its mighty tones shall sound,

And, in the end of the age proclaiming,

Shall pierce the depths profound;

When the Son of Man shall come in His glory

To take the saints on high,

What a shouting in the skies

From the multitudes that rise,

Changed in the twinkling of an eye.

When He comes in the clouds descending,

And they who loved Him here,

From their graves shall awake and praise Him

With joy and not with fear;

When the body and the soul are united,

And clothed no more to die,

What a shouting there will be

When each other's face we see,

Changed in the twinkling of an eye.

O the seed that was sown in weakness

Shall then be raised in pow'r

And the songs of the blood bought millions

Shall hail that blissful hour;

When we gather safely home in the morning,

And night's dark shadows fly,

What a shouting on the shore

When we meet to part no more,

Changed in the twinkling of an eye.

"Changed In The Twinkling Of An Eye"
(1898)
 Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby
(1820-1915)
Prolific American hymn writer