Meet the Lord in the air? I consider the belief utterly absurd. That belief comes from the following verses:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. [18] Wherefore comfort...
But that is not what it says, it is only what you believe it says, what you interpret it to mean.
1Thessalonians4:13-18
New International Version
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind...
The concept of the rapture is a theological belief held by certain Christian denominations, particularly those within the evangelical and dispensationalist traditions. It refers to an event in which believers in Jesus Christ, both living and deceased, will be caught up or "raptured" into the...
My understanding is ‘every eye shall see Him’ is not referring to an instantaneous event but a gradual process over time when all will become believers. The Bible does not specify a timeframe so to read one into it is adding to the Book. The curse of the Book for adding to it I think is to be...
Yes, they usually use "asleep" for those whose bodies have perished. But at the sound of the trump, those who have died before us will rise, those alive will rise with them. Those who are with him will not be appointed to wrath.
Great verses.
In 1Thessalonians4:13-18 it says believers are asleep.And that jesus will bring them with him.And in 1Thessalonians 5:9-10.He says whether awake or asleep.We may live together with him.
What do you think of these verses?I think it means an afterlife.What do you think?:)
You bring up a good point/question and the importance of rightly dividing the scriptures.
There are scriptures, as you pointed out, about watching and praying because Jesus comes as a thief in the night; unexpected.
Then there are those which state He will come in all His glory after all kinds...
I am sure this is what you believe because it is what you have been taught. But the verses do not say anything about heaven. They say Jesus is coming back to earth and we will be with him (on earth). I am sure you will not change your beliefs because of this. But NOTHING in the Bible uses the...
Your objections here are pretty easy to answer if you look at all the scriptures in the post you are quoting from. For example 1Thessalonians4:13-18 shows that both the living and dead in Christ that are raised to life at the second coming, are all caught up in the clouds to be with Christ. If...
Revelation 14:13 and Ecclesiastes 9:5 are both correct; however, these scriptures are not referring to the same group of people. Revelation is referring to the anointed class (144,000) of who are resurrected immediately upon the death of their physical bodies. They are happy-in part- for...
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord...
we already come under one judgement .we are going to die .its what happens in the kingdom arrangement and its timeline that it hard to say when and whats going to happen
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Wildswanderer You are wrong... You have been taught lies; it was the Protestors in the 17th century that taught there is NO sanctification after death!
Christians have ALWAYS believed in sanctification after death! On tomb stones in the catacombs of the first century Christians is written "Pray...
First purgatory isn't real. It's nowhere in the Bible.
Purgatory after death flies in the face of many clear statements in the Bible that there are only two places that one will end up in after death: either in heaven with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:21-23; 1Thessalonians...