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In order to qualify as a "true" Christian, it's essential to believe that Jesus Christ's crucified dead body was restored to life. That belief isn't optional. According to Rom 10:9, that belief is a must.
It's surprising the number of Christians I encounter in church and online who honestly think they believe in Jesus' resurrection when in reality they don't; instead, they believe Jesus came back from the dead in a glorified body.
But John 2:19-22 does not permit Jesus to come back from the dead in a glorified body, no; it requires him to come back from the dead with the very same body in which he was crucified.
Q: If Jesus now has a glorified body, then when did he get it if not Easter morning?
A: When he was raptured. (Acts 1:1-9)
Jesus' resurrection, and his subsequent rapture, was a microcosm of the activity that's to take place during his church's rapture. First the dead in Christ will be restored to life. Afterwards those in Christ who are alive will join them to leave the Earth all at the same time, en masse. On the way up to meet the Lord in the air, everyone's body will undergo a miraculous transformation just as his did. It's all explained in 1Thess 4:13-18.
I won't even hazard a guess as to the total number of people in Jesus' church, but if we tally all the dead in Christ beginning with the day of Pentecost nearly two thousand years ago till now, and then add them to the ones alive today; his church is going to fill the sky in such numbers from all the globe that the event should be quite a sight to behold.
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There will be no true Christians left behind at the rapture.
In order to qualify as a "true" Christian, it's essential to believe that Jesus Christ's crucified dead body was restored to life. That belief isn't optional. According to Rom 10:9, that belief is a must.
It's surprising the number of Christians I encounter in church and online who honestly think they believe in Jesus' resurrection when in reality they don't; instead, they believe Jesus came back from the dead in a glorified body.
But John 2:19-22 does not permit Jesus to come back from the dead in a glorified body, no; it requires him to come back from the dead with the very same body in which he was crucified.
Q: If Jesus now has a glorified body, then when did he get it if not Easter morning?
A: When he was raptured. (Acts 1:1-9)
Jesus' resurrection, and his subsequent rapture, was a microcosm of the activity that's to take place during his church's rapture. First the dead in Christ will be restored to life. Afterwards those in Christ who are alive will join them to leave the Earth all at the same time, en masse. On the way up to meet the Lord in the air, everyone's body will undergo a miraculous transformation just as his did. It's all explained in 1Thess 4:13-18.
I won't even hazard a guess as to the total number of people in Jesus' church, but if we tally all the dead in Christ beginning with the day of Pentecost nearly two thousand years ago till now, and then add them to the ones alive today; his church is going to fill the sky in such numbers from all the globe that the event should be quite a sight to behold.
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