Joy



Resurrection
Joy
 

is,

Being raised from the dead. Resurrection can mean being raised from physical death, or it can mean being raised from spiritual death unto spiritual life. Jesus promises us both. (See more at 'Born Again'.)

On the day of Christ's return, all those who are 'dead in Christ' will be raised from the dead, (the 'Resurrection of the Dead') and then those in Christ who 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".
1 Thessalonians 4:17


There was a darkness over all the earth; and, as Jesus gave up the Ghost, the earth shook, the rocks were broken, and in the temple, the veil of cloth, which divided the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place was torn in two, signifying that we would no longer need a human priest to go to God to offer sacrifices and pray for us. Through Christ, the perfect Lamb, and the highest priest of all, who sacrificed himself for us, we would now be allowed to enter the very presence of God in our own hearts, and we are also 'seated in heavenly places'. Three days later, God raised Jesus from the dead. Many bodies of the saints that slept (had died) were raised from their graves, as well, and walked and were seen in the city.
Matthew 27-28
Mark 15-16
Luke 23-24
John 19-20

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:10-12

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection...
Romans 6:3-5