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The age of flesh will be over at the last trump,therefore
believers those that held true to the end will put on their immortal
souls,
Again, no believer will die after the last
trump
Whoops. The last trump is pretty much the end of that great day of the Lord. I pointed out Matthew 13 where a number of references are given.
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He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.
38 The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
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"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.
If we read this from the KJV we see it is the end of the world.
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He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
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The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
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The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
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As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
This is the aion in Greek. Not the end of the planet but the end of the age/world. The end of the old covenant. The last trump is part of that. The last trump happens at the end of the great trib. It is the end of the wrath of God. Read Rev 14
Revelation 14
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
Revelation 14
The Lamb and the 144,000
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Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb.
5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
The Three Angels
6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people.
7 He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
8 A second angel followed and said, “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand,
10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name.”
12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”
The Harvest of the Earth
14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one “like a son of man” with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.”
19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
All of that is the big wind up, but just before JOhn watches this he is given this final instruction :
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”
So from this we see that believers continue to live and die after the last trump. This is verified by 1 COr 10 where it tells us the end of the age falls on their generation.
11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
This of course means that the verse many have argued about for so long really does mean exactly what it says:
34 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
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