(1 Th 4:17) “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.”
Thanks for this post. The above verse, though I have read it multiple times, just now struck me as another proof from Scripture that a place/state of “Purgatory” cannot exist. “So shall we ever be with the Lord”, very clearly does not mention any intermediate situation but says those who are taken up to be with God during what we call the Rapture do not first have to be cleansed from the “temporal residue of their sins” before being in the presence of the Lord.
Only if you believe that you are pure enough to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Are you without sin right now?