The Excellent Glory

This is a fine anticipation of coming days. The Lord again intimates "the excellent glory" under the title of the "Father's house" in John 14. He lets us know that it is a wealthy place, a many-mansioned house, the dwelling of the family, the homestead in the realms of the highest glory. Thus we are gathering fragments.
These are distant scenes. There are nearer scenes also thrown open to our sight in these same scriptures of the New Testament. We have the spirit of the Lord Himself before resurrection taken to and by the Father (Luke 23). Then we have the glorified body of the Lord after resurrection, translated to heaven (Luke 24).
We have instructions as to ourselves in each of these things. We are taught to know that should we die, as Jesus died, before the day of resurrection, our spirits will be received by Him in paradise, or heaven.
Luke 23:43, Acts 7:59, 2 Cor. 5:8, and Phil. 1:23 teach us this. Should we live till the day of resurrection, we are taught to know that we shall then be glorified and translated in company with those saints who have already died and gone in spirit to Jesus. 1 Cor. 15:42-54, and 1 Thess. 4:14-17 teach us this.