Spoiler alert:

At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise.

There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations.

But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book of life—will be delivered.

Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

‭‭Daniel‬ ‭12‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Everyone’s seen some version of it before.

The closing credits will be the final scene for some and the beginning for others.

Nothing else will matter. Not the good things you did. Not your generosity or your kindnesses. Not even the best clips compiled from all your years.

Only your conviction and belief that a baby born in a manger long ago was who he said he was and who he came to be was the fulfillment of your hope while visiting this brief chapter of the world.

And the final credits will roll with your name in lights.