Paul wrote ‘all’ will be changed in a twinkling of the eye... this age of flesh bodies is over... again, if Christ is returning to this earth, why do some want to leave Him? Where are you going?
Not so for Jesus, and not so for His regenerated-in-the-Spirit believers, for we shall be like Him.
"Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have" (Lk. 24:39 AV).
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 Jn._3:2 AV). I think that is the correct point of view.
In one scene We the redeemed are changed and go up; in the other scene we the redeemed in our glorified bodies come down with The Christ to end the Tribulation/time of Jacob's Troubles.
In the first scene, God brings with Jesus those whose spirits have been absent from the body and with the Lord, so these can be resurrected physically and then gathered together with the alive who have been transformed in the twinkling of an eye (1 Xor 15:51-53), to meet the Lord in the air.
In the second scene we come with The Christ at the end of the Great Tribulation, to the touch down on the planet.
The first scene we go up to meet Him in the air. The second scene we come with Him to touch down on the Planet Earth.
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