All Saint's Day

Today is the day in the church year when much of Christendom commemorates those who have fallen asleep in Jesus (1 Thess. 4:13-18) in the past year as well as those for whom we still mourn even after years. This was the festival upon which Dr. Martin Luther's 95 Thesis' were first read. After all, he nailed them to the church door in Wittenburg on the eve of this festival. We now have commemorated that event with a festival of its own. We call it, Reformation Day. On that day, we celebrate that God, through His servant Martin Luther, gave His church back the pure unadultarated gospel of free salvation for all mankind (Rom. 3:19-28).

So today, it is fitting that we now remember those who sleep in Jesus. 'These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb' (Rev. 7:14).