“Sovereign Lord, as You have promised, You now dismiss Your servant in peace.
And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”
The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.