Time , be it long or short , is but a moment to them . They sleep ; they are awakened by the trump of God to a glorious immortality . " For the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible . . . . So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption , and this mortal shall have put on immortality , then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written , Death is swallowed up in victory ." I Corinthians 15:52-54 . As they are called forth from their deep slumber they begin to think just where they ceased . The last sensation was the pang of death ; the last thought , that they were falling beneath the power of the grave . When they arise from the tomb , their first glad thought will be echoed in the triumphal shout : " O death , where is thy sting ? O grave , where is thy victory ?" Verse 55 .
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