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In the miracles of the resurrection
I felicitate you brothers and sons on the occasion
of the Holy Resurrection Feast hoping for you and for
our dear country all the good and blessings and
praying that peace and love rule all over the world
and that God saves it from wars and diseases.
Now, I would like to say about resurrection that in
it will happen the most wondrous and comprehensive
meeting the world and the history witnesses… It will
be for all the righteous ones, a meeting full of joy in
Heaven and it will be for the evil ones, another
meeting in the outer darkness, out of the Saints’
Gathering. But today we will talk about the meetings
of the righteous ones.
The first meeting is the meeting of the spirits
with their bodies.
Every body will be raised healthy and fit, without
flaws, weaknesses, diseases or disabilities. It will be
raised as a spiritual body that is not controlled by
instincts or lusts, a one that does not resist the spirit
in anything as it used to do in this age! It is a
heavenly body that goes with life in Heaven. It has
nothing to do with the material or the Earth gravity.
For if it was material and under the power of Earth
gravity, it would have fallen from Heaven to Earth.
And the soul recognizes the body, and reunite
with it in real eagerness after being separated from it
since is death. And this has happened for a time in
which generations lived, then they came back
together again; and what a wondrous meeting…
The second meeting is the meeting of family,
friends and loved ones.
It is a joyous meeting, after the sorrow of
separation that death has caused them… In
Resurrection married couples will meet, sons and
parents will meet, grandchildren will meet
grandparents, and all relatives will meet together.
And the big family will gather with all its branches
and recognize each other, in spite of the fact that
generations exist between its youngsters and elders,
through which children has become elders…! And the
friends who were apart will also meet…
And in Resurrection, ages will meet with
ages:
The age of our father Adam and his son Abel the
righteous, will meet with the age of our father Noah
and his sons who survived the flood in the Arc, with
the age of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
with the age of Prophet Moses and his brother Aaron
the chief priest and their sister prophetess Miriam,
with the age of prophet and king David and his son
Solomon the wise… and with other long ages that
came after each other…
Every age had its environment, characteristics
and characters… The head fathers will meet together,
each with his standing dignity and history. They will
recognize each other and exchange memories with
their respect to each other… These are characters
who lived thousands of years ago that will meet
through Resurrection together. And they have lived
before in different ages and circumstances.
Also in resurrection, all martyrs, righteous
ones and good ascetics will meet.
Martyrs of right, martyrs of religion and martyrs
of virtue. All martyrs: princes, simple ones, knights,
clergy men, women and children. Each with his/her
story and fighting, his/her martyrdom and courage…
All of them from ages of Nero and Diocletian and
others… All martyrs who fought against idolism,
communism, atheism and heresies… Along with faith
heroes who defended faith and bore for it injustice
and torture… How wondrous is the meeting of all of
them together, consoling one another with what they
achieved of glory in Resurrection.
All these meet with righteous people in all
generations who were examples in virtue and
asceticism, in courage and sacrifice, and in purity of
hand and body.
In Resurrection also meets people, races and
tribes.
From every language and color: the white, yellow,
dark and black races. The Aryan with the Niger,
Americans with Red Indians. All colors will meet
together. And I do not think that the people colors
will change in eternity! Those who were masters will
meet with those who were slaves but they will
become free in eternity. But everyone’s conditions will
be different in the other world.
Everyone will meet but not everyone will be
in one level.
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The Divine justice will be reclassifying people so
that they become in levels that is different that where
they were at their Earthly lives. Everyone will be
reclassified according to their deeds and the purity of
their hearts. And as was said about people in eternity
that one star differs from another star in glory. But, in
spite of the different levels, everyone will be happy.
And maybe the most wondrous thing in all
these meetings is the meeting with angels.
God’s Kingdom in Heaven includes people and
angels. And so people will meet with archangels
Michael and Gabriel and the other archangels, with
the Cherubim and the Seraphim and all the
uncountable crowd of angels in Heaven’s Force…
What happiness and what glory may be in this
meeting and what spiritual gestures may exist?! Here
and I stop explaining because the scene is far
superior beyond description…!
Resurrection meetings include: a big
introduction ceremony in Heaven:
Will a group of angels be introducing all those
who were raised with those who preceded them? Or
will God give people a spiritual sense through which
they will recognize each other?
Or will every saint, for example, have in his look
something that distinguishes him and identifies him?
Or will there be another means through which
people will be introduced to each other? I do not
know.
The most important thing is that there will be a
big introduction ceremony in Heaven, between people
from the past and those who were raised recently. It
may take a longer time that is hart to count…
The most important thing in this meeting is
how will people interact in Heaven?
Will it be by spirit? And what will that
language be?
Will it be the heaven’s language? Or the angel’s
language if angels have one?
Or will they realize what each of them wants to
say to the other without talking?
And what will be the topics that Heaven’s people
will talk about?
Will everyone be singing a single song and a
single praise? And what will it be? And who will lead
this praise? Who will be writing the words? And who
will be writing the music? Who will be putting its
music? And who will be adjusting its rhythm?
Excuse me my brothers if I have to go down from
talking about Heaven to talking bout our lives on
Earth and ask for our country peace and stability
under the leadership of HH President Mubarak and all
Egypt’s loyal soldiers.
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