"The Lord himself will descend from heaven...and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive,who are left, will be caught up together with thenm in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" (I Thessalonians 4:16,17 ESV).
HOW CAN THE LORD RESURRECT OUR BODIES IF THEY'VE BEEN TURNED TO DUST, OR BLASTED TO A MILLION PIECES, OR EAT BY FISH?
This question has been asked since the days of our Lord's ministry. However, what was needed was science catching up to the Bible! For an answer let's take a trip to Princeton Seminary.
Princeton was until around 1940 the premier evangelical seminary of the nation. One of its great theologians in the nineteenth century was Charles Hodge. His three volume work of theology was still being used when I was in seminary (1960-1963)
Dr. Hodge pointed out that the body changes all its cells (in one year except for the brain and cord). How is it we have the same body after a year. His illustration was it resembled a wave in the sea. The energy of the wave passes through the water and the water molecules don't travel with it. In other words the energy of the wave keeps going changing its make up moment by moment. HOWEVER, IT'S THE SAME WAVE!
Picture running your hand under a blanket. Hodge, as a Bible-believing Christian spoke of the body as a form of energy!!
Dr. Albert Einstein, who probably never heard of Hodge, on the Princeton University campus in the 1930's, discovered that all matter was a form of energy!
In other words, your body is a cycle of energy. ISN'T IT EASY TO BELIEVE THAT THE LORD CAN CALL UP YOUR UNIQUE ENERGY CYCLE (WITH IMPROVEMENTS) WHEN HE COME FOR YOU IN YOUR RESURRECTION!
That's why Paul writes about the rapture we already quoted by concluding with these words: Therefore encourage one another with these words (I Thessalonians 5:18, ESV)
ARE YOU MISSING GOD'S PROMISED BLESSING?
The Book of Revelation promises that all who read it and keep it will have the Lord's blessing! Many of those who first heard the book had it read to them, because they couldn't read! How is it that so many today find confusing and contradicting interpretations of this book? THIS IS A BOOK WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND A MASSAGE WE NEED IN THESE DAYS OF EVIL, ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY, AND GROWING DANGER!
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