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To: sasportas

Thank you, and you too have a nice day. I’m going to address the issue for those still checking back on this thread. I’ll put it in another post so you won’t get pinged. Don’t want to disturb your day ...


145 posted on 06/16/2015 12:49:53 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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The following question was asked and we'll take a moment to address them:

'Speaking of clarifications, how about clarifying what you mean by "approved." Who's approved according to your eschatology?'

Eschatology being the study of end-time things, this is a most interesting question related to the Rapture!

The Rapture is for living people, people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and have had the Holy Spirit seal their human soul/spirit with His presence as the earnest of their inheritance to come. Yup, it is for the living. But wait! There's more.

In 1Thessalonians 4:13-17 Paul tells the Thessalonians that they should not worry for their dead, for the Lord is going to do something miraculous for believers, namely raise the dead to living bodies, then transform them, along with 'we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord', into bodies fit for eternity. The further clues are found in 1Corinthians 15:51-53. The corruptible must put on incorruption, so even living bodies like 'we who are alive and remain' must also be transformed.

Jesus introduced this notion of the Rapture in the Upper Room Discourse found in John 14. It must have been a puzzling discourse because good old Thomas says 'we don't know where you're going'!

146 posted on 06/16/2015 1:00:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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