[QUOTE=mfblume;759909]Hi GD,
More thoughts for your consideration as you make your way through choices of prophetic scehemes of interpretation...
It is not that Jesus is coming to earth, but rather Jesus is
rapturing the church in order for us to obtain immortal bodies since death came by sin and the grave was not mentioned until the curses were made in the Garden. So His coming is not for the sake of enhancing the present spiritual Kingdom. The kingdom will always be spiritual. But it's just that satan must be judged finally as well as sin and death since Adam brought these influences over mankind. The cross has to undo that or else Adam's sin was greater than Jesus' remedy, and that cannot be according to
Romans 5.
I fully believe the resurrection and change of the actual physical body is far too plainly indicated in 1 Cor 15 and Phil 3:21 for us to conclude otherwise.
Just a thought because I am writting this in the morninig before work will write more this evining. First I do not beleive in just a spiritual resurection. I beleive in a full change of body when we die. Just a couple of thoughts as I make my way through the schemes of interpretation. I brake the rules. lol my mind has gotten beyond the norm where I only see what others say but I have gotten to a point where I can look down and see the overal picturenot just in prophecy. Many of the things you preach or teach about standards God gave me a couple of years ago before I read your study on RDTT. See in the circles I live in when I state some of the beleifs God has shown me I have been put through many differance of opinions, I even has someone tell my what I was saying was herisy.
Sorry I get to rambling sometimes. Old Age lol What I was saying Is I see fp in this light that the resurection has happened in 70 ad. God came to earth in judgement preached to those in death hell and the grave those that heard his voice were saved those that did not were cast into the lake of fire. Hence the second resurection. Hence forth when we die our bodies are changed we go strait to heaven no in between time. See I see the last of chapter 19 and the first of chapter 20 of Revelation as the work of the true church that is in the earth today. and when we fulfill all of the work God has given us then the kingdom of God which is in heaven now will be in the world.
Here is a thought
I Thess 4 our primary passage for a rapture Paul is speaking of the dead those that have aready gone on Paul is giving comfert to the living that the dead in Christ will rise first so we don't have to give them a second thought. Then we which are alive shall be caught up to meet them in the air. But when? Bro this has just given me more questions I have to pray about I will get bac to you
God Bless