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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:50-53
This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
I don’t know when Jesus will return but I am ready when He does. That’s what matters.
I do know through the Book of Revelation that there are going to be a series of cataclysmic events that precede Jesus’ second coming, events that will rock the foundations of the earth and the heavens. While no one knows when Jesus will come back, there will be indicators. This is for another message on another day and indeed, I have written already from the Book of Revelation. You are welcome to go back to those messages to see what is still yet to come.
What I want to focus on today is the moment when Jesus does come. The fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians is rife with details on what will happen at our resurrection, especially in regard to the transformation we will undergo. Our verses for today, tell us what will signal the time for the great and grand awakening of all Christ believers. Look again at his words here:
I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:50-53
In the fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians, Paul details what happens when a person dies. While their perishable bodies decompose, their spirits enter into a state of rest and remain that way until the day of Jesus’ return when He comes back to “wake up” and resurrect those who placed their hope in Him for salvation, just as He brought his good friend Lazarus back to life when He walked the earth (see John 11). When Jesus comes, the spirits of the dead in Christ will awaken and rise first to meet Him in the air. They will be joined by those who are alive in Him to form a vast congregation of saints, elevated above the earth and ready to move onto eternal life.
Now, we need to keep in mind that there will be millions upon millions, if not billions or trillions, of people who chose to reject Jesus will remain on the earth. Their perishable and unsaved spirits will have a destiny as well but it won’t be to eternal life. Rather, they will descend into Hell where everlasting damnation and suffering await.
One way or another, there will definitely be a change of status for all people and it will come suddenly with an unmistakable signal.
We know this because our scripture passage today tells us. There will be a trumpet blast, a great heralding from the heavens that will never be heard again after. Jesus will arrive with his company of angels and all people will be changed in the “twinkling of an eye” as the once perishable and mortal are clothed by Christ to become imperishable and immortal.
This is all a mystery to us now but on the day of Jesus’ second coming, all of this will come to be and we will see the word of God once again completely validated on the day of our great and grand reawakening.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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