Musings on the Tough Life Questions

  I think most importantly we have to go back to the impact of Christ's resurrection. I began to ask myself "How Powerful is Christ's Resurrection?" Are Abraham and Daniel still dead and in Sheol or Hell or grave (and yes one of the words for hell is Sheol) Consider this. Abraham rejoiced in the day of Christ. He was not disappointed. Christ's resurrection began the process to dramatically change the dynamic of the state of death and the death process. That was why even thought Martha said, yes I believe Lazarus will rise on the last day, Christ obliterated that line of thinking by stating that He was the resurrection. He then proceeded to prove that a day does not limit him and he raised Lazarus from the dead. Therefore in the Old Covenant, resurrection was a day or event. In the New Covenant Resurrection is a Person Christ himself. All of that to say, when Christ resurrected, the OT saints resurrected with Him, upon His ascension He led captivity captiv...

Harpazo is different from rapture. Rapture is based on the notion that Christ comes with dead ones, picks up believers and makes a u turn and flies back up to heaven with unbelievers left behind.  It's helpful to consider Paul's word for "meeting" in this passage. It is the Greek word apantesis, which typically described the formal welcoming of a dignitary into a city. In other Greek literature, it was a term that described a great delegation that would travel to the outskirts of the city gates and beyond to receive the conquering king as he returned to the land." The Rapture counts for absurd eschatology.... And if you believe in the rapture guess who is taken? Not the righteous as you were taught but the wicked. Notice the disciples are asking "Where they were taken"... notice Christ's answer "wherever the dead bodies are for the vultures to consume" Luk 17:34 — Luk 17:37 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the o...