Ah,
John 14. Are you aware the idea of the "mansions" there is about 'abodes' per the Greek? and those are written about in the future temple of Ezekiel in God's "house" on earth for Christ's future Millennium? See
Ezekiel 40 thru 47. The pre-trib rapture doctors don't do their required Bible study in the OT prophets like they are supposed to.
Abodes, mansions, houses, no matter. Jesus went there to prepare a place for us.
If that was not true, would He have told us He is going there to prepare a place for us?
"My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
This is like Sesame Street:
Here<------------>
There
I am
Here, and I'm going
There to make a place for you.
So that I can come back
Here and take you back
There to be where I am.
I won't mind if my mansion is just a house trailer in the shade of the tree of life that it may ever stand. Where I can just hear the angels sing and shake Jesus’ hand. Lord build me a cabin in the corner of Glory Land.
Yeah, that's what kicks off the time of great tribulation according to Lord Jesus in His Olivet discourse. He quoted about it from the Book of Daniel.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days.
"There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
Someone else on this forum noticed the word used is siesmos. And there would be a great earthquake, a great tempest, a great siesmos. A great storm on the sea.
Same word used in Matthew 8 when Jesus rebuked the winds.
"And behold, there arose a great "storm" on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep.
Be careful not to miss the composite beast rising from the troubled sea of many peoples, multitudes, nations and languages on June 26, 2015.
In reality, that's not what God's Word is teaching, because the Greek for KJV "air" in the 1 Thess.4:17 is aer meaning 'the breath' (Strong's no.109). It is pointing to the "spiritual body" Apostle Paul taught in the 1 Cor.15 chapter.
Are you afraid of heights Davy?
Or are we getting our airs mixed up?
ἀέρα (
aera) IS the air we breathe. It's the air we breathe when we stand on the ground, and the air we would breathe if we were supported 100 or 200 feet above the ground. I'm not sure we'll even need to be breathing the air when we light up the stratosphere and the angels are sent to gather us from the four corners of the heavens.
[the] air.
ἀέρα (
aera)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 109: Air, the lower air we breathe. From aemi; 'air'.
Could be you're thinking of ἀέρος from Ephesians, the prince of the power of the "air". That's the spiritual air.
Ephesians 2:2 N-GMS
GRK: ἐξουσίας τοῦ
ἀέρος τοῦ πνεύματος
NAS: of the power of the air, of the spirit
KJV: of the power of the air, the spirit
INT: authority of the air the spirit
Anyway, I wouldn't worry about the masculine and the feminine of the Greek deal, the context is clear from a regular read, the Lord is coming in the clouds of the air, and we are caught UP to meet the Lord IN the air:
"After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
When Jesus descends from Heaven to the earth, He brings the asleep saints that had already died back with Him when He comes. Then those of us still alive on earth are "caught up" with them in the clouds,
and then we ALL go with Jesus to Jerusalem on earth, which is what Zechariah 14 reveals, His feet touching down upon the Mount of Olives where He ascended to Heaven from per Acts 1. That may seem like a lot of info, but I am keeping strictly with the Scriptures of God's Word on all that.
Rev 5:10
10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
KJV
Rev 20:6
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
KJV
I'm sorry man, I hate to tell you this.
Your Revelation verses are obviously true. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. But that can't be until the 1000 years are finished and the earth is made new again.
This part is elementary to me my dear Davy. I'm the old bar tender at closing time. And I am telling you, in the David and Goliath voice,:
"You don't have to go home Davy, but you can't stay here".
Because the great city is going to be split into three parts.
All three thirds are going to be destroyed.
The time is come for God to destroy the destroyers of the earth.
When Paul says God, through Jesus, will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep, Paul's not talking about bringing them from heaven to earth, Paul is talking about resurrecting them and taking them all back with us to the Father's House with many rooms. New Jerusalem.
God will bring back with Him the believers who have died. Like Daniel who is resting in the dust of the earth. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above, and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
We are going to light up the stratosphere, billions of resurrected saints, and all the tribes of the earth are going to mourn at the sight of it.
Lord build me a cabin in the corner of Glory Land.
Peaceful Sabbath.