The Way of the Seven Fold Secret by Lilias Trotter

In these words we have the promise of the final passing
that still lies before His people and will be to them
the passing of passing. Then, at last, through the
redemption of the body, that is the completion of the redemption
of the spirit and the soul, we shall be "delivered
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of
the children of God".*
These words of Christ tell the two ways in which the
last passing from the earthly to the heavenly will take
place when He comes again.
Among the great host of believers in Him, it is the
first part of the promise that will be fulfilled in the day of
His coming, that is to say "He that believeth in Me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live." For, those of all past ages
who are asleep in Jesus will be the first to receive their
new bodies when He calls His own in the day of "the first
resurrection";,· and these bodies that were "soKn a natural
body" will be "raised a spiritual body." t
But on that same day will be fulfilled the second part
of this promise of the title page, in which our Lord says,
"He that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die". For
then will come to pass that which was foretold by Paul
the Apostle.** "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 in
the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be
with the Lord."§ "We shall not all steep, but we shall all be
changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eyr, at the last
trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Then shall be
* Rom. 8.2r. t Rev. 20. 5 & 6. + I Cor. 15. 44•
*' I Thess. 4. 16, 17.
§ I Cor. 15. 51, 52.