Posted on 05/24/2011 10:27:46 AM PDT by topcat54
The saints triumphant (in their souls) return with Christ at the Second Coming to be reunited with their bodies that rise from the grave.
There's going to be a wedding in heaven...The Groom will be there...And the soon to be Bride will be there...
The Groom Jesus will be in his Glorified Body...Jesus is not going to marry the souls of his Bride while their bodies are still unglorified and in the ground...
And as you ignore the rest of it: We who are still ALIVE and remain will go up as well...Bodies and all...
So you are saying the Bride consists of some bodies with souls and some souls without bodies...That leaves Jesus coming back at the 2nd Coming with most of his troops invisible because they have no bodies...
No matter how hard you try, you just can't justify your Preterist views whithout ignoring or destroying much of the scripture...It don't work...
Concur
I’m certainly catholic (universal), but no longer Roman Catholic (sectarian).
I didn’t ignore anything. In fact I explicitly dealt with the saints militant. Take off your rapturist glasses and read more carefully.
At Christ Second Coming the souls of the saints who have “fallen asleep” return with Christ to be reunited with their bodies (first), then the saints who are alive are translated body and soul, and both classes of saints are with Christ in their resurrected bodies.
There is no direct indication in the Bible that the “marriage supper” of the Lamb takes place in heaven. While this is asserted in rapturist theology, the fact is it will take place when the Bride is fully prepared, at the Second Coming at the (one and only) resurrection, perhaps in the new heavens and new earth.
Yes.
[There is no direct indication in the Bible that the “marriage supper” of the Lamb takes place in heaven.]
Good gosh. Oh well. (blast from the past)
Just the fact that Israel is a nation now and about to celebrate it’s 70th anniversary destroys the preterist fallacy.
They just won’t give up! LOL!
Yep - The State of Israel and indeed the recapture of Jerusalem both destroyed it, separately. And Zechariah 12 was kicked into gear.
Bump
Are you still with us?
(good comment - hope you are here to read this)
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