Wednesday, February 13, 2013

When we are removed from this earth

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

People focus on so many things that will be instantly forgotten at the return of Jesus.  And God tells the elect of the New Covenant the following ... This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Heb. 10
 
Concerning heaven, God said ...For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Isaiah 65:17

It may be difficult to grasp this concept of what it will be like but here is illustration that we should be able to relate to:  When we saw the World Trade Center twin towers collapse, most of us focused on that scene and nothing else.  We weren't thinking of anything but that scene at the exact moment of the collapse.

And so will it be at return of Jesus.  All we will see and be aware of is Jesus.  We won't be thinking anymore of our families or anything else.

And at that time, I will no longer have to try to get anyone to turn to God!

It will all be different and we will be different, changed to another "body", to another form.

And it will happen suddenly.  If you blink your eyes it will be that fast!

I Cor. 15

But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain,  it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men,  another flesh of beasts,  another of fishes, and another of birds. 40There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 

The dead shall rise and those who are still alive and belong to God will be changed in a twinkling of an eye and then they shall arise to meet Jesus and the dead who are risen in the air.


I Thess. 4 ... But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (those who have already died), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep.  16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.  

It will all be done in a twinkling of an eye ... blink ... it is that fast!  And we will not think of family, friends, possessions.  We will only think of Jesus at that time.  All former things will vanish instantly and we will not remember them again.  Isaiah 65:17