Eric E Stahl
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These verses explain that someday Jesus will come back to earth and call every person who has accepted Him as Lord and Savior to meet Him up in the air above the earth. Since the apostle John told us that Jesus now shines “as the sun in its strength,” the world will see the light of Jesus’ glory in the heavens over the earth at His appearing, but, sadly, those who are non-Christians will have no idea what has happened.
1 Corinthians 15:50–58 KJV
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
When Christians die, their bodies sleep until Jesus comes to take them to heaven. At the time of the rapture, the sin nature we inherited from Adam, “the first man,” is removed so that our corruptible body can put on our incorruptible spiritual body that will be given to our spirits in heaven immediately after our death.
2 Corinthians 5:1–11 KJV
5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
When our sleeping (dead) bodies are awakened at the resurrection, our bodies will be called up to meet Jesus in the air. At that time, our earthly bodies that have had the sin nature removed will put on our heavenly spiritual bodies and our spirits like a coat. Our two bodies become one, and we will go back to heaven with Jesus at that time.
Prior to the rapture, while we have only our spiritual bodies in heaven, we will still be able to eat food and wear clothing as Jesus did when He went to see the disciples in the upper room after His resurrection. When we get to heaven, Jesus, at the judgment seat of Christ, will judge us. Everything we have ever done, thought, and everything we have not done when we should have acted will be judged at that time. This judgment will not determine our eternal destiny. It will determine the degree of our eternal rewards.
These verses explain that someday Jesus will come back to earth and call every person who has accepted Him as Lord and Savior to meet Him up in the air above the earth. Since the apostle John told us that Jesus now shines “as the sun in its strength,” the world will see the light of Jesus’ glory in the heavens over the earth at His appearing, but, sadly, those who are non-Christians will have no idea what has happened.
1 Corinthians 15:50–58 KJV
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
When Christians die, their bodies sleep until Jesus comes to take them to heaven. At the time of the rapture, the sin nature we inherited from Adam, “the first man,” is removed so that our corruptible body can put on our incorruptible spiritual body that will be given to our spirits in heaven immediately after our death.
2 Corinthians 5:1–11 KJV
5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
When our sleeping (dead) bodies are awakened at the resurrection, our bodies will be called up to meet Jesus in the air. At that time, our earthly bodies that have had the sin nature removed will put on our heavenly spiritual bodies and our spirits like a coat. Our two bodies become one, and we will go back to heaven with Jesus at that time.
Prior to the rapture, while we have only our spiritual bodies in heaven, we will still be able to eat food and wear clothing as Jesus did when He went to see the disciples in the upper room after His resurrection. When we get to heaven, Jesus, at the judgment seat of Christ, will judge us. Everything we have ever done, thought, and everything we have not done when we should have acted will be judged at that time. This judgment will not determine our eternal destiny. It will determine the degree of our eternal rewards.
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