Peace to you,
Wootah wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 4:49 pm
tam wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 5:05 pm
It just says
afterward you will take me into glory. It does not say when afterward.
Look at what is said to Daniel:
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.”
Peace again to you,
your servant and a slave of Christ,
tammy
The interpretations of yourself and JW are like a parent promising their kid the latest toy and then coming home with a knockoff or something far lesser.
I think you are misunderstanding what it is like. I'm not sure what the problem is?
- For Tam, sure I'll take you to a movie and ice cream, afterwards, and by afterwards I mean 1000s and 1000s of years afterwards. It's how bad parents behave. If parents make a promise they should keep it. Kids know.
Well from the perspective of the person who has died (who is sleeping in death), no time will have passed. A thousand years could pass, but there will be no perception of that happening. It will be like closing your eyes, and when next you open them (when you are awakened), it will be at the resurrection.
The first resurrection happens all at once, for all Christians who have died.
The second resurrection - the resurrection of the dead, both great and small (Rev 20:12, 13)- happens a thousand years later. The second resurrection is for non-Christians.
- Or for sure when you are dead you are living in God's memory, /sarcastic hooray!
That does not apply to anything I have said, so I will leave it.
Of course death is not the end. I have not suggested that death is the end.
There has to be a point where you look at all the times God doesn't just say plainly, "Daniel go on your way and when you die at the end you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance."
Why? Christ
also uses the word 'sleep' when speaking of death.
End times in revelation and the resurrection is judgement day for the bad guys and a new creation is part of that.
The second resurrection (the resurrection of the dead) is for non-Christians. Some here are resurrected to life; some are resurrected to judgment and the second death.
(the first resurrection is for Christians - this occurs when Christ returns)
Peace again to you,
your servant and a slave of Christ,
tammy