Jesus said “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.” A difficult thing to hear when your brother has just died, but Jesus was using this tragedy to demonstrate the amazing hope that he offered, despite the personal grief that it caused.
We don’t know whether we’ll still be alive by the time Jesus returns, but we do know that if we believe Jesus words, if we reflect Jesus’ values in our life, then we can have eternal life. Or as Proverbs records, “whoever walks in integrity will be delivered.”