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311thou hast rejected the word ofJehovah, and Jehovah hath rejectedthee from being king ."God Changed Course from BeingMan's Creator and Benefactor toBeing His Destroyer atthe FloodGen . 6 :5-7 "And Jehovah sawthat the wickedness of man wasgreat in the earth, and that everyimagination of the thoughts ofhis heart was only evil continually. And it repented Jehovah thathe had made man on the earth,and it grieved him at his heart .And Jehovah said, I will destroyman whom I have created fromthe face of the ground ."Hope of Resurrection ClearlyTaught in ScripturesIsa. 25 :8 "He hath swallowedup death for ever ; and the LordJehovah will wipe away tearsfrom off all faces ; and the reproachof his people will lie takeaway from off all the earth : forJehovah hath spoken it."Heb . 6 :1, 2 "We have left theelementary doctrine . . . not layingResurrectionResurrectionGod May in Mercy Turn fromBringing Just Punishment if aPerson Changes from aWicked CourseJonah 3 :10 "And God saw theirworks, that they turned fromtheir evil way ; and God repentedof the evil which he said he woulddo unto them ; and he did itnot ."Jer . 18 :8 "If that nation, concerningwhich I have spoken,turn from their evil, I will repentof the evil that I thought to dounto them ."Ex . 32 :14 "And Jehovah repentedof the evil which he saidhe would do unto his people ."See "Confession", "Baptism ."DEFINITIONResurrection is a restoration to life of the nonexistent dead . TheGreek word, anastasis, means "a raising up". It is an act of God dependententirely upon God's marvelous power through Christ andupon His memory of the dead . It is the reactivating of the lifepattern of the creature, a transcription of which is on record withGod, and is referred to as being in His memory . Resurrection doesnot involve the restoring of the original identical body of the creature .The life pattern is the personal life-long record of the creaturebuilt up by his thoughts and by the experiences in the life he haslived resulting from certain habits, leanings, mental abilities, memoriesand history. It is also a register of the individual's intellectualgrowth and his characteristics, all of which make up one's personality. Hence, according to God's will for the creature, in a resurrectionone is restored or re-created in either a human or a spiritbody and yet retains his personal identity by the setting in motionagain of the distinctive life pattern of that individual .a foundation again, namely, . ,the resurrection of the dead ."Heb. 11 :17-19 "By faith Abraham,when he was tested, asgood as offered up Isaac, and theman that had gladly received thepromises attempted to offer urhis only-begotten son, althoughit had been said to him : 'Whatwill be called "your seed" willbe through Isaac .' But he reckonedthat God was able to raise