Saturday, October 19, 2013

Taken into heaven at the return of Jesus

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

I was born again August 5, 1975.

After that I began hearing people speak of various things of God.  One thing very popular at that time was a painting someone did of people being taken into heaven at the return of Jesus.  There were cars driving down the street in the painting and drivers being pulled up out of the cars and their human bodies going up into the air to meet Jesus.

This is wrong.  Our human bodies will not leave this earth to go into heaven with our soul and spirit.  Our human bodies see corruption.  Corruption will not inherit incorruption.

Paul explains in 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.


... And 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. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?  56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 



At the blink of an eye, we will be changed and taken into heaven.  These bodies we now live in are subject to pain, to decay.  They will not go with us into heaven.

We will be changed instantly into another form as it suits God ... We will leave these bodies.

But these bodies will not fly out of cars along the highway to meet Jesus in the air when HE returns.  This concept is not right.