“I think that will happen with the return of Jesus Christ...”
He’s already here. Has been. It’s just that we have been asleep and need to be awakened or raised up in order to perceive that we exist within Him and He exists within us.
His great sacrifice earlier was to lower Himself to our level to teach us. Ever since He has been working to help us raise ourselves to His level. That’s the “raised up” event many are awaiting. Just as the servants in the parable of the tares in the wheat, we have been asleep and need to be awakened.
“He’s already here.”
Nope. Thats too eastern/new agey for me. His first coming was to die for lost sinners like you and me, not just to teach. His return is to a place, the Mount of Olives. I’ve been there. The resurrection is bodily, modelled after his own bodily resurrection. And He said his coming would be an eye-catching event that you couldn’t miss. Paul also warned against a “missed coming” heresy that was troubling the church in Thessalonica. In fact, the church has been trained by Scripture to ignore all such misdirections as the devilish ploy of false prophets and to wait instead for the unmistakable coming, where every eye will see him.