14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:
and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity;
but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Recently I spoke by phone with my cousin. Three times, she started speaking of evil and she had no idea what she spoke was evil and wrong. I did not let her get by with this. I reminded her once of how much she hated her brother and her own son and how those hatreds were eliminated. Now she hates her younger brother. As I reminded her of the hatred she once held toward her elder brother, her "iniquity was discovered" and she began to back down. Then as I reminded her of how the same thing happened with her younger son and it finally disappeared, she weakened further in her current hatred. It didn't solve her problem but it did cause her to back down from her boastful words.
In one case I became so strong, showing her the right way according to scripture that she actually paused and then said something that was true. She had been telling me about plans to go to cemetery 250 miles away from where she lives to decorate graves of her dead husband, her dead parents, her dead in-laws.
I began telling her truth from Bible concerning death.
Dead people do not know what you are doing when you stand over a grave and put flowers on grave. So why are you doing this? Who are you trying to impress? The dead people don't know you are there. They are asleep.
Then she said, "So it really doesn't matter where we are buried."
RIGHT!
I felt God gave her a small thread of understanding.
That might even be enough to cause her to be saved!
This what a prophet is supposed to do ... turn them from their iniquity.
What happens when people die?
I Thess. 4 ... not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For 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 them which are asleep. 16 For 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:17 Then 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. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Not all will die before Jesus returns.
I Cor. 15 ... 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed, 52 In 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 physical bodies we now have will not be taken into heaven. Only our souls will leave our bodies but our current bodies will not go with us.
Thus Paul explains, we who are alive on this earth when Jesus returns "will be changed" ...
God will give us a body as HE wills ... explained in I Cor. 15 ... but it will not be our current physical body.
And it will happen "in the twinkling of an eye" ...
Blink your eyes ... that is how fast this change will take place. Explained in I Cor. 15.