While the religions of past cultures varied in their teachings concerning the resurrection from the dead, most of them believed in an afterlife of some kind. The Egyptians prepared the bodies of their kings and nobles and supplied their tombs with items they thought would be useful in the afterlife....[more]

Just as certainly as Jesus ascended into heaven, He will come again (Jn. 14:3; Acts 1:11). What will take place after He returns? Will there be a millennium reign, a thousand-year reign of Jesus? Does the thousand years include a literal thousand-year reign of Jesus, or is it symbolic of a period of time?[more]