When Jesus returns, the elect of God will rise in their new spiritual bodies

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...

When Jesus returns, the dead in Christ rise first.

 

There will be a shout from Jesus and the sound of the trump of God and the dead will arise.

 

It will not be in these fleshly bodies but it will be in their new spiritual bodies which will be in the image of God.

 

The spirits of the dead in Christ will rise.

 

A spirit can go anywhere.  A coffin and dirt on top of a grave will not hold a spirit.  Nor will this flesh that is around that dead person hold their spirits back.  Neither will water graves hold a spirit.  All who are in Christ will rise.

 

I Cor. 15:49-50   And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

 

John 4:24   God is a Spirit:

 

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The dead in Christ rise first:

 

I Thessalonians 4:13-18   But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 

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Jesus will take the elect of God who are still living on this earth up into the heaven in their new spiritual bodies after the dead in Christ have been raised.

 

Matthew 24:29-31   Jesus says: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 

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I Cor. 15:51-53   Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

 

In the blink of an eye, those who are the elect of God and are still living on this earth, will be changed into their new, incorruptible spiritual bodies, and be raised off this earth to meet Jesus and the resurrected dead in the air.

 

Blink!  That is how fast we will be changed!

 

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