"I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live." (John 5:25-- NIV)
I will hear His Voice in death because I heard His Voice in life. It is the "Voice" of Jesus Christ which raises from the dead, the "Voice" which rang from Calvary, "It is finished." And, it will be the Voice of Jesus which will say to you and me, "It is time!" The preciousness of His Voice, which broke the chains of sin and darkness in this life, will be the preciousness of His "Voice" when he delivers these mortal bodies, either from the grave, or, at His Second coming. "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, with the shout (voice) of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first." (Amplified Bible)
For me, it is not an "audible" voice now. It is the same Voice heard by, "His angels, mighty in strength, who perform His word, obeying the voice of His word." There is no separation between His Word and His Voice. Could this be the reason the Jews in the first century could not recognize His Voice? "Why do ye not understand my speech? (Even) because ye cannot hear my word."
Because we have been full of His Word now, we will recognize and respond to His Word/Voice "in that Day." When we first "heard" His "Voice," it was not the end. It was only the beginning.
Father, in Jesus' Name, grant me the grace to hear Your Voice "in the power of Your Word" now, so that Your Voice will be familiar then. Amen.
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