Christ's last act of healing
will have everlasting results. No human language can portray the scenes
of the
second coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven. Christ will
come in His own glory, in the glory of His Father, and in the glory of
the holy angels. Ten thousands times ten thousand and thousands of thousands
of angels, the beautiful, triumphant sons of God, possessing surpassing
loveliness
and
glory, will
escort Him
on
His way. In the place of a crown of thorns, He will wear a crown of glory
- a crown within a crown. In the place of that old purple robe, He will
be clothed in a garment of whitest white. And on His vesture and on His
thigh a name will be written, "Kings of Kings, and Lord of Lords."
Rev. 19:16 
The King of kings descends upon the cloud, wrapped in flaming fire. The heavens are rolled together as a scroll, the earth trembles before Him, and every mountain and island is moved out of its place.
Amid the reeling of the earth, the flash of lightning, and the roar of thunder, the voice of the Son of God calls forth the sleeping saints. He looks upon the graves of the righteous, then, raising His hands to heaven, He cries: "Awake, awake, awake, ye that sleep in the dust, and arise!" Throughout the length and breadth of the earth the dead shall hear that voice, and they that hear shall live. And the whole earth shall ring with the tread of the exceeding great army of every nation, kindred, tongue and people. From the prison house of death they come, clothed with immortal glory, crying: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" Corinthians 15:55. And the living righteous and the risen saints unite their voices in a long, glad shout of victory.
All come forth from their graves the same in stature as when they entered the tomb. But all arise with the freshness and vigor of eternal youth. The mortal, corruptible form, devoid of comeliness, once polluted with sin, becomes perfect, beautiful, and immortal. All blemishes and deformities are left in the grave.
The living righteous are changed "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." At the voice of God they were glorified; now they are made immortal and with the risen saints are caught up to meet their Lord in the air. Angels "gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
We shall know our friends,
even as the disciples knew Jesus. They may have been deformed, diseased,
or disfigured
in this mortal life, but they rise in perfect health and symmetry; yet
in the glorified body their identity will be perfectly preserved. In
the face radiant with the light shining from the face of Jesus, we shall
recognize those we love. Friends long separated by death are united,
never more to part, and with songs of gladness ascend together to the
City
of God.
Pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of
heaven. There will be no more tears, no funeral trains, no badges of
mourning. "There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying:
... for the former things are passed away." "The inhabitant shall not
say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their
iniquity." Revelation 21:4; Isaiah 33:24.
The redeemed saints, who
have loved God and kept His commandments here, will enter in through
the gates of the
city, and have right to the tree of life. They will eat freely of it
as our first parents did before their fall. The leaves of that immortal
widespread tree will be for the healing of the nations. All their woes
will then be gone. Sickness, sorrow, and death they will 
never
again feel, for the leaves of the tree of life have healed them. Jesus
will
then
see the travail of His soul and be satisfied, when the redeemed, who
have been subject to sorrow, toil, and afflictions, who have groaned
beneath the curse, are gathered up around that tree of life to eat of
its immortal fruit.