Paul tells us that the first people to meet Christ in the air are those people who |
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have put their faith in Christ but have physically died . It is obvious that we are talking |
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about millions of people whose bodies will meet up with their souls in a new spiritual |
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body that God has designed for us for eternity . When a person dies , the Bible tells us |
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that two things happen . The body goes to the grave , and remains on this earth . But the |
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soul of the person , the spiritual part of him , goes on to be with Christ . Somehow at |
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the Rapture , the physical bodies of those who have died will be transformed into a |
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new bodies that will last forever : new `resurrection bodies '. In 1 Corinthians | |||
15:50-53 , the Bible helps us to more clearly understand this transformation . |
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1 Corinthians 15:50-53 ( TLB ) |
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50 ) `1 tell you this , my brothers : an earthly body made of , flesh and blood |
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cannot get into God ' s Kingdom . These perishable bodies of ours are not the
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Christian who has died to join up with their new `Resurrection ' body at the time of |
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the Rapture . But God is a big God who can create and redesign in less time than it | |||
takes for our eyes to blink . God is going to show His greatness at one of the most |
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spectacular events in the history of eternity — the Rapture . |
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