Revelation 14:13

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write:  ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”

• ·        This prophecy came down from heaven, and not from men, and therefore it is of certain truth (MH)

• ·        It was to be preserved and published – by writing; it was to be matter of record, that the people of God might have recourse to it for their comfort upon all occasions  (MH)

Ecclesiastes 4:1, 2 …..Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.

Psalm 55:6  So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!  I would fly away and be at rest.