After Jesus comes and no Christians are left on the Earth, we descend to Heaven.. After Jesus made a new Heaven and Earth.. Do we go BACK to Earth to live the rest of our lives in a perfect place.. or stay in Heaven?
Note that no verse says the rapture takes us any higher than the clouds....I think all the real Christians are gunna go to Heaven...
Originally posted by Willis Deal
Why do you think there will be no christians on the earth after Jesus comes?
The bible tells us plainly that the planet earth will remain forever. When the bible talks about the 'earth' passing away it is talking about the system of things, ie government, nations, etc. Not about the planet itself. The bible is also very plain that there will always be a human population on the earth. How else can God bless a thousand generations (roughly 40,000 years) if earth and mankind is to only last 7000 years? Those who are transformed into glorified bodies become the bride of christ, whose home is the New Jerusalem which descends out of heaven. The OT righteous compose the wife of God and are in heaven, while the mortals who survive the great tribulation and millennial reign of christ will dwell upon the earth.
Jesus didn't say he would come to take us there, but said "I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3). And indeed we will be where he is after he comes again: on the earth during the millennium (Revelation 20:4-6, 5:10, 2:26-29)....Why would He come to take us there...
Yes, I believe we will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air on his way down to set his feet on the earth....He will take us up to meet Him in the air...
Our being caught up into the clouds to meet Jesus' at his coming and then returning back to the earth with him will be similar to the people coming out of Jerusalem to meet Jesus and then returning back to the city with him (John 12:12-13) or the Roman Christians coming out of Rome to meet Paul and returning back to the city with him (Acts 28:15-16)....He isn't doing this just to drop us back down on earth...
Originally posted by Metalhead777
After Jesus comes and no Christians are left on the Earth, we descend to Heaven.. After Jesus made a new Heaven and Earth.. Do we go BACK to Earth to live the rest of our lives in a perfect place.. or stay in Heaven?
Originally posted by Willis Deal
Why do you think there will be no christians on the earth after Jesus comes?
The bible tells us plainly that the planet earth will remain forever. When the bible talks about the 'earth' passing away it is talking about the system of things, ie government, nations, etc. Not about the planet itself. The bible is also very plain that there will always be a human population on the earth. How else can God bless a thousand generations (roughly 40,000 years) if earth and mankind is to only last 7000 years? Those who are transformed into glorified bodies become the bride of christ, whose home is the New Jerusalem which descends out of heaven. The OT righteous compose the wife of God and are in heaven, while the mortals who survive the great tribulation and millennial reign of christ will dwell upon the earth.
Originally posted by Gerry
LOL! I am amazed! How can anyone possibly be so confused? Oh dear!
Originally posted by rainbow promise
thusaith, Many are rude on here like Gerry's reply. They laugh at what one believes and then don't bother giving their veiw nor do they answer questions, just belittle the questioner.
We may not all agree on here, but we all love the Lord,so we say, so that we do all have in common. With that in common we should respect our fellow Christians, whether we agree or not........And instead of belittling the one asking the question we should answer their question...It is our chance to witness and to share........
God bless...
Note that no verse says the rapture takes us any higher than the clouds....we are removed from planet earth...
The church will reign with Jesus on the earth during the millennium (Revelation 2:26-29; Revelation 5:10; Revelation 20:4)....the saints reigning with Jesus...
I believe the ones "left" at His return (Matthew 24:40) will be survivors of the heathen nations that came against Jerusalem, who will be forced to worship Jesus in the millennium (Zechariah 14:16-18), and whom we will rule "with a rod of iron" during that time (Revelation 2:26-29, 5:9-10, 20:4). They will be the ones who will populate the millennium....the wicked are all destroyed at His return...
Note that Peter refers to the "day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men" as the day the heavens and earth will vanish (2 Peter 3:7-10), just as Revelation 20:11-21:1 says will happen after the millennium at the great white throne judgment of all unbelievers. So he is not referring to only the 2nd coming itself, which is the day of the Lord we are told to wait for (1 Corinthians 1:7-8), but to what will happen at the end of the "thousand years as one day" (2 Peter 3:8)....the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up...
I believe Jesus said "In my Father's house are many mansions... I go to prepare a place for you," to show why he was going, not why he was coming back, and to show that he still has great and eternal plans for us in New Jerusalem, where the Father will dwell with us after the millennium: "I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God" (Revelation 21:2-3)....Why would He prepare a place in heaven for us if He had no plans to take us there?...
No, it isn't a lie. Note again that Jesus simply said "I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3); he said we will be where he is after he comes again. He said nothing about his making a U-turn back into heaven. And indeed we will be where he is after he comes again: on the earth during the millennium (Revelation 20:4-6, 5:10, 2:26-29)....If He don't take us then that means this text is a lie...