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Originally Posted by Ohio
I have always taken Paul's comment here to simply mean that there will be some believers who are alive when Jesus returns bodily to this earth as He promised us, and as the angels also promised in Acts 1.9-11.
Neither Paul nor the other apostles knew when Jesus would come again. They were only warned to be always prepared for His return. None of us knows the time of His return, nor the number of our own days, that is when we too will "sleep." One reason we can trust God unreservedly is that He alone in the entire universe knows the future.
What we can be sure is that Paul's word will be fulfilled, "we shall not all sleep."
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True, bro Ohio. But I'm not talking about knowing when Jesus would return, I'm talking about when Paul EXPECTED it to happen.
Which I claim, "not all shall sleep" means that generation that was living then.