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Your question, who are the dead in Christ that rise first?
They were the Old Testament Saints, they died not having received the promise, eternal life through the resurrection of Christ Jesus.
When Christ was resurrected, they also were resurrected.
Matthew 27:52 And the graves were open; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Matthew 27:53 And came out of the graves, after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, (NEW Jerusalem) and appeared to many.
They were caught up into the air, and when we depart this body of flesh, in the twinkling of an eye, we are caught up, as they were into the presence of God, because you are married to him and have become one with him.
Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a lamb stood on Mt. Zion, and with him an hundred and forty four thousand (symbolic, not literally 144,00), having his father's name written in their foreheads.
Revelation 14:4 ..... the are the firstfruits (of Christ resurrection) unto God and the Lamb.
Romans 8:23 And not only they (Old Saints), but ourselves also, which have the FIRSTFRUITS of the SPIRIT (life and truth in us) ....
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection .....
God Bless You!
By saying no disaster shall come near my daughter or me, is to disagree with God's word.
Look at the world around you, do you think all the people in Florida that lost everything, some even losing family members, do you not understand some were God fearing, born again Christians.
God's wrath and indignation has been poured out on the earth, no one is immune, all will go through it, it's the righteous judgements of God.
Psalms 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witness against me, and increaseth thine indignation upon me; charges and war are against me.
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Don't be deceived by mans teachings, Christ's children are going to go THROUGH THE FIRE.
God bless you.
To understand Matthew 17:21 your going to have to study and understand Isaiah 58.
May God give you his understanding.
God bless you.
This war has become a money maker, like usual, at the expense of lives!
Who will hold those responsible,?
Who is righteous enough to judge?
Another generation of fools, the same who marched us into the jungles of Viet Nam! Obvious as it is, someone will judge!
When it happens you will be the first to know!
There are more than a few souls who have experienced the past!
these who will shout and blow the trumpet !!
Can you hear Jesus say. weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and your children.
The beloved dragging His cross who came to save that which was lost!
Do not be deceived, those feelings and tears you shed now are for yourself and your children!
These tears your preacher produces are the tears for those who know not the truth, who soon will experience the real ones!
"My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence."
Repent and be baptized
Since you are saved and a born again Christian, what are you saved from?
Is Christ not the passover lamb of God?
Does not death pass over those covered by the blood?
John 5:24 ....he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath EVERLASTING LIFE, and shall not come into condemnation, but is (present tense) passed from death into Life.
John 8:51 ......if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Lukewarm Christians don't keep his sayings, his words.
Have you come to truth of what being born again is?
Philippians 2:13 For it is God (the life in you) that worketh IN YOU both TO WILL and TO DO his good pleasure.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my JUDGEMENTS, and do them.
John 16:8 And when he is come (Christ in you, the new creation) he will will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of JUDGEMENT.
John 16:11 Of JUDGEMENT because the prince of this world (lies and deception in you) is JUDGED.
Matthew 12:28 But if I (Christ in you) by the Spirit of God, cast out devils (lies and deception) the the kingdom of God has come unto you.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God (Christ in you) that worketh IN YOU both TO WILL and TO DO (his statutes and his judgements) his good pleasure.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is BORN OR GOD (truth and life) doth not commit sin (It's Christ in you working both TO WILL and TO DO his statutes and his Judgements)
Most Christians want walk in this truth and that makes them lukewarm.
God bless you.
We are reminded in verse 4 of Psalm 84:10 as to it being better having the lowest position as "gatekeeper" in heaven than anything on earth; or the alternative of hell; certainly.
Verses 5 and 6 remind us of Psalm 40 in being lifted up and trusting in the Rock of God which is Christ. There could possibly be prophetic overtones in either passage of the Rapture; and or protection during times in the future Tribulation for certain Jews in hiding. We see a theme here of continuing trust in God; not just a fleeting moment when trouble arises. This helps an individual be able to clearly hear the voice of the Lord with all the competing ones of the world; the flesh and the Devil. Verse 9 shows to some extent how the Spirit was more transient in the lives of the O.T. saints; although God's people still ultimately were saved.
Verse 10 certainly cannot be overstated as it fits in to so many today; certainly whose own families foresake them or worse for proclaiming the Gospel truth. We are today "adopted sons" of Christ ( Romans 8:14-17) if truly Born Again. We have a Father in heaven who never leaves us or foresakes us.
Verse 12 demonstrates how false witnesses came up in David's life and certainly this applies to Christ when on earth. Finally; there is an admonition in the last two verses to wait patiently; as well as a hint of the Millennium Kingdom in verse 13 when we can be certain thar goodness will be in the "land of the living." Today the remnant believers are few and far between and many have fallen away as the scriptures predict.
Dear Father, please heal Richard's thigh by your miraculous touch or by means of a doctor, and let Richard's visit be trouble-free. In Jesus's Name, Amen.
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if you are looking for repentance you need to believe in the lord Jesus Christ
Acts 16:25-40
30 Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household
Matthew 22:32 what is written
Remember he is the God of the living, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'[a]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
When believer dies he goes to be with the father
This is not a salvation issue and shouldn't cause divisions within the body, but yes, I believe you are interpreting the Bible correctly. In my opinion theree is much stronger Biblical support for this compared to the idea of Christians going direct to heaven as they die. Someone can simply make a list and there are probably more than double the amount of verses supporting that someone will wait in sleep for Jesus to return than to go to heaven immediately. It also makes more logical sense as it would seem weird for Christians to go to heaven and skip judgment when it says everyone will be judged, and everyone in this case means everyone- and it also says it will happen on the same day: the day of judgment, which wouldn't exactly happen if people periodically went to heaven randomly. It would not make as much logical sense if Christians went to heaven only to return back to earth in the grave to rise, then meet Jesus, then go back to heaven a 2nd time. Whereas, the alternative seems to both fit scripture and be more logical too.
John 5:28-29
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
Daniel 12:2
1 Corinthians 15:6
1 Corinthians 15:51
etc
The support for the other perspective is the thief on the cross through an assumption that this is a template for all of mankind to follow and no exceptions and that paradise is the same is heaven. The second is that when Paul said he'd rather be away from his body and with the Lord that one assumes his preference means reality for all, and assumes that him wanting to be with the Lord means there's no waiting period. Of course when someone sleeps in death it likely won't seem like waiting, just like when we sleep on earth we usually aren't conscious a full 8 hours waiting to wake up. God bless.
I might be misunderstanding your question but I think what it's talking about in 1 Corinthians Chapter 11 is that people were coming into the church and taking communion in an unworthy manner. This is not talking about fellowshipping together and having a potluck at the church.
1 Corinthians 11:29 says, "For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, by not discerning the Lord's body.
There's the key!
Jesus set it up so that when you take the bread or drink the cup, He said do this in remembrance of me.
When they took the bread and drank the cup, they were not discerning that these elements represented the Lord's body. They continued to eat it like it was a meal.
When a believer dies, their physical body goes into the grave but their spirit departs and immediately goes to be with the Lord.
As it says in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, the dead in Christ will rise first to meet the Lord in the air. This is not the second coming of Christ. This is what is called the rapture of the church.
At this time, only the dead in Christ will be resurrected. There will be a second resurrection for the wicked dead at a later time, and we see that in the book of Revelation.
But in 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, this is for believers. It is when Christ comes for His church. If you look at the very next verse, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, it tells us that we also go to meet the Lord in the air.
This is going to happen very quickly. So we which are alive and remain will be caught up together with them. So they (the dead in Christ), they come up out of the grave first, and we get caught up with them to where when we get to the Lord, we get there at the same time.
It will be simultaneous, though their action starts first, which is very understandable because they're underground and we're above ground.
It says for a meeting with the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.