In support of your placing The Bema Seat of Christ / Judgment seat of Christ in Heaven and before the Tribulation: the Bema seat is where the rewards are given to the Redeemed, and the crowns they are given are on their heads as they witness the Lamb taking the seven sealed scroll to open it and release the man of sin who comes with all signs and lying wonders (Rev 5).
And in support of you both: The Church is God’s unique creation. There wasn’t one before like it and when it’s raptured, there won’t be another. When Jesus spoke in the Gospels of judgment after death, it is a judgment of those who died under the law or, in the case of gentiles, without the law or a law unto themselves. There was no Church of Christ’s Body as we know it when Jesus spoke about the judgment to come. A judgment according to works under the law for Israel. This is where some other posters are getting confused and are mixing the judgment under the law program with the Church of Grace’s already-judged-and found-innocent state because of faith in Christ Jesus.
When the already-judged Church is out of here, then judgment returns as per the usual. And for those outside of the Church at any point in history, the judgment is also as per usual.
(I state all this because there are some others on this thread who are mixing the “judgment as per usual” with the already-judged members of Christ Jesus’ body who don’t come into judgment after death as they’ve already been judged in Christ Jesus and found innocent because of Him. THANK GOD!!!)
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