Eternal life is not interrupted at death. Physical death will not turn eternal life into temporary life. Eternal life will be made complete when our bodies are raised from the dead and reunited with our spirits. We buried Flossie O'Connor and Marion Newstrum this past week. But their fullest experience of eternal life will come when the Lord descends with a trumpet and with the archangel's call and the dead bodies of those who are in Christ are raised from the dead.
Eternal life encompasses body and soul.
Eternal life will last for ever and ever. How long is it. It exists because it will take that long for us to know the inexhaustible glories of God. He ponders whether that would grow dull and boring. It may discover more and more of the beauty and loveliness of God, but it never will exhaust the fountain. . . .