1,000 Years of Outer Darkness

[Raptor]

Originally Posted by byHismercy

Can you clarify, Raptor?

The matter of "being absent from the body and present with the Lord" refers to being dead, to dead believers. The Bible says little about what happens to dead believers, except that they go to be in the Lord´s presence, or to Paradise, or that they are sleeping.

The matter of receiving a reward or discipline refers to live believers, either resurrected and/or raptured, that are judged at the judgment seat of Christ. The Bible says a lot about all of this.