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Not quite! There would be no martyred souls in heaven before Christ resurrected from the dead thereby preparing the way for saints to ascend to heaven after they die. Christ had to first defeat death and prepare a place in heaven for believers. Christ accomplished this first by His birth...

I'm not fully understanding what point you are trying to make here. You say God has no timeline because He exists in eternity, but then you say "end times started right when Christ arose from the dead and ascended to heaven". Isn't that a timeline for fulfillment of events that come after...

Yes, the saints who are with Christ in heaven after physical death (living souls) will return with Him when Christ comes the second time. That's because in time, symbolized a thousand years they had part in the first resurrection life of Christ, the first resurrection. That's why John says...

The first resurrection is the resurrection of Christ from the dead! The time that NOW is, is for hearing the Gospel and believing. Whosoever hears and believes has passed from death to life, because believing Christ is how one partakes of His resurrection life, the first resurrection. What you...

They stand before God as spiritually dead, physically alive for Judgment. The dead are judged according to what they have done while physically alive, by what is written in the books, and the book of life. Since the dead have not partaken of the first resurrection through Christ in time (a...

I believe Job, like Abraham knew of Christ who would come (Gospel). And even though Christ would die, Job understood death could not hold Him. Yes, Job knew he would not be resurrected to physical life again until this first heavens and earth be no more. Because the grave could not hold Job's...

Scripture tells us Christ conquered the second death only for those who partake of the first resurrection. IOW those who have part in the resurrection life of Christ while living on this earth, need have no fear of the second death, because it cannot harm those who are of Christ's resurrection...

Paul says the first resurrection, which is the resurrection of Christ that comes through faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith, with the resurrection from death to life. When we have partaken of Christ's resurrection in life, having fellowship with Him in sufferings, being made...

In death man's body returns to the dust, and the spirit in man returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. This truth applies to every human. The question we all face is whether...

The better resurrection is remaining faithful even unto death. These faithful saints chose to physically die knowing that death would not keep them from obtaining a better resurrection in heaven. Hebrews 11:35-40 (KJV) Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were...

There is a reason we don't find a single eyewitness to testify these saints of old went into Jerusalem of this earth. Not even the centurion and those with him who witnessed the cross were eyewitnesses of this remarkable event three days later. Jerusalem of earth ceased being the holy city...

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What you fail to acknowledge is how Joel's prophesy includes both the Day of the Lord that came with power at Pentecost, as well as the "great and the terrible day of the Lord" that will come on the last day of the Lord when the seventh angel begins to sound that time shall be no more. All...

It helps to quote this passage in context. Christ shows us the hour coming, and now is, is when mankind is able to hear His Word and believe on Him. Those who hear and believe in the hour that has NOW come is when we obtain everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but have passed...

You're only seeing the Day of the Lord from what is written in the New Testament. Why does James in the book of Acts, quoting Peter, tell us that at Pentecost when the Spirit was poured out is fulfillment of the prophet Joel? The Day of the Lord will indeed come again, but not to usher in...

But the one having done good is resurrected to life, and the one having done evil resurrection of condemnation. The one resurrected to life are the same ones physically raised from the grave and changed from mortal to immortal, and corruptible to incorruptible. This is not believers being...

You're conflating the two Day of the Lord events. The first Day of the Lord all the prophets foretell as not a single day, but TIME that came with the advent of Christ coming to earth a man. The Day of the Lord had a beginning and also has an end day, when Christ comes again one day, not as...

Yeah, I agree! To date the Day of the Lord is around two thousand years and will not end until the last Day of the Lord when Christ comes the second time. Again, can you biblically prove what you allege? If the first advent of the Messiah is not the Day of the Lord, why do we read in Acts...

Job 19:25 (KJV) For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: Hebrews 1:2 (KJV) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Acts 2:17 (KJV) And it shall come to...

Prove this gap!