Matt 8:11 is not referring to the third heaven. It's referring to the kingdom of Heaven brought down to the New Earth. Notice verse 12 where it says gnashing of teeth. The gnashing of teeth in the afterlife only occurs in the Lake of Fire. (Matt 8:11-12 NIV I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”)Angelina said:Mary is alive along with Abraham Isaac and Jacob... ^_^ Matthew 8:11
1 Corinthians 15
44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.
1 Cor 15:35-58 NIV is titled "The Resurrection Body". It's referring to how we will be raised at the first resurrection, similar to how we were created. God breathed the breath of life into us and we BECAME a spirit being. Our spirit and soul is a gift from God. Man is not a spirit, rather man has a spirit. The only reason man is a living being and has (a soul) is because he has a spirit and a body as a gift from God. Without the spirit and body man is nothing, non existent. God didn't form a spirit from the dust of the ground, lol. No, he formed a MAN FIRST. (Gen 2:7 NIV Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.)
The term "day of redemption" refers to the first resurrection.Angelina said:You can't get to heaven unless you physically die first or unless you happen to be here when Christ returns. Either way, a believer's path has been assured by faith in Christ and the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit which is a deposit guaranteeing our eternal redemption ~ 2 Corinthians 1:22, 2 Corinthians 5:5, Ephesians 1:13-14
Because that is when God will redeem us and give us immortality.
We will receive our inheritance at the first resurrection..
Dan 12:13 NIV "As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance."
Eph 1:13-14 NIV And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
After the antichrist sets up the abomination of desolation before the great tribulation of God's wrath, believers in Christ will have to wait 45 days until the first resurrection and rapture...
Dan 12:11-12 NIV “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
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