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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Welcome back, Raptor! What you posted seems fine, or at least I don't have much heart to go back & forth on all of the details any more. Because it seems some things are not clear in scripture and/or it purposely is not revealed to us. And any further revealing will be done by the HS (as all true revealing is!).
I just know there is a race and we should run it looking away unto Jesus and to win. To win means there is also something to loose. So, as with any goal, there is the plus of getting it and the potential loss of not getting it. And just as we don't really know or comprehend what the reward is, we also don't know what the loss fully is either.
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I recently listened to a portion of a message where Derek Prince addresses the issue of how the early church apostles were expecting the Lord to come back really soon. And how Jesus Himself says that He will come back quickly. Of course many mockers have attacked those ideas saying, "where is He? That was not fulfilled, look, 2000 years already...."
But what Prince mentions is that it is correct all the way until now for every believer. The Lord will come back quickly for each one of us, because even if we live a long life and then die, when we are dead in Paradise, Derek thinks we do not experience time, we are in an eternal realm. Then when we resurrect, we are back in time. So in our experience, we die and when we resurrect the first thing we see is the Lord, there is no time that has passed for us, so it ends up being pretty quick.