Jesus' Resurrection was characterized by a twinkling-of-an-eye CHANGE.
Most believers may not yet be aware that that's what WE are to anticipate, too:
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and WE shall be CHANGED." —1 Corinthians 15:52
Per 1 Corinthians 15:20, Jesus became the firstfruits (i.e.: the prototype) of all who will experience physical death.
— Questions for Study and Meditation —
Did He go to Heaven when He died? If not where did He go?
If it is true that Jesus was our definitive prototype, where will you go when you die?
Wouldn't that be a place of rest? Might that be the rational justification for our "Rest in Peace" expression?
When the dead in Christ are raised incorruptible, will they come from holes in the ground or from that place where Jesus went?
Per 1 Corinthians 15:23, Jesus became the firstfruits (i.e.: the prototype) of our own last-trump Resurrection.
— Questions for Study and Meditation —
Did He go to Heaven when He was Resurrected? If not where did He go?
If Jesus was, in fact, our definitive prototype where will you go upon the last-trump Resurrection?
Remember reading and/or hearing about The New Heavens and The New Earth...and The New Jerusalem?
Might those other-dimensional bodies be the only reason we'll survive the fiery end of Planet Earth?
"...he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved." —Jesus, at Matthew 24:13
Per Revelation 20, THE FIRST RESURRECTION is at the bitter end of The Great Tribulation.
Many (especially in the U.S. "Bible Belt" region) expect to be Raptured before then.
— Questions for Study and Meditation —
How many of them know that, per 1 Corinthians 15:50, flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom of God?
Wouldn't a pre- or mid-Tribulation Rapture require another "First" Resurrection?
Can there be two (2) "first resurrections?"
Some have argued that Elijah and Elisha were both Raptured without being Resurrected.
The position of our resident Scribe is that, per 1 Corinthians 15:50, that would have been impossible.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Scriptural Rebuttals?
No arguments from 3rd-party "experts," please.
