Bridegroom, Bride Christ and is Church.
Romans 8:33-39. 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.[j] 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul talks of the elect as the justified. Not long departed Israelites. Plain language. Us, we, indicates his audience, not they them.
I was under the impression the Church was eternal,
Chapter and verse. God is eternal, the church had a beginning, but it will have no end.
>>>Bridegroom, Bride Christ and is Church.<<<
That says absolutely nothing. Can you answer my question, which was: “Where does it say Christ “returns” for the Church?”
>>>Paul talks of the elect as the justified. Not long departed Israelites. Plain language. Us, we, indicates his audience, not they them.<<<
Are you, for Christ’s sake, “being killed all the day long; and are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered?”
>>>Chapter and verse. God is eternal, the church had a beginning, but it will have no end.<<<
Please try to write more clearly. I have no idea what you mean.
Philip