Virgil P. Brock（1887-1978）作词；部分版权目录将 Virgil 与 Blanche Kerr Brock 并列为作品作者. Explore “Beyond the Sunset”: song information and official sources.
Hope for the end of the age · Eternal life and rest
Among the most familiar songs at Chinese church funerals, it pictures death as sunset: the sun has not disappeared, but is no longer visible from this side. Revelation 21:4 promises the other side's reality: “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.” Paul uses another picture in Second Corinthians 5:1: “For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.” The tent will be dismantled; the house is already prepared. When using the song at a funeral, remember that its hope does not cancel present grief. Singing it must not hurry people to stop crying. ⚠️ It remains copyrighted: among its several collaborators, the latest death was in 1978. This module provides an introduction and does not host the lyrics.
Funerals, memorials and visits to brothers and sisters nearing death; teaching on Revelation 21 or Second Corinthians 5.