jCited from Gen. 22:17
2 Chronicles 34:28
28Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.Psalms 37:37
37 Mark the blameless and behold the upright,for there is a future for the man of apeace.
Isaiah 57:1-2
Israel’s Futile Idolatry
1 The righteous man perishes,and no one lays it to heart;
bdevout men are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
2 che enters into peace;
they rest din their beds
who walk in their uprightness.
Daniel 12:13
13 eBut go your way till the end. fAnd you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at gthe end of the days.”Matthew 22:32
32 h‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”Hebrews 6:13-19
The Certainty of God’s Promise
13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, ihe swore by himself, 14saying, j“Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15And thus Abraham, ▼▼Greek he
lhaving patiently waited, obtained the promise. 16For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes man oath is final for confirmation. 17So when God desired to show more convincingly to nthe heirs of the promise othe unchangeable character of his purpose, phe guaranteed it with an oath, 18so that by two unchangeable things, in which qit is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope rset before us. 19We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into sthe inner place behind the curtain,
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