I Corinthians 15:54 "So 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." "
So your soul must put off the physical body, and this soul but be changed from a state of possible destruction by sin, and put on immortality through the shed blood of Christ before this saying can be true. "Death is swallowed up in Victory", when your sins are blotted out and made as they had never been committed. Then we have eternal life in Jesus Christ. There is still death until after the Millennium age.
Because he has not yet been cast into the lake of fire.......satan cannot do anything that God does not allow him too....
Revelation 20:14
And death and hell were cast into the
lake of
fire. This is the second death.
You missed a spot:
{20} But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. {21} For since by a man
came death, by a man also
came the resurrection of the dead.
{22} For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
{23} But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, {24} then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. {25} For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. {26} The last enemy that will be abolished is death. {27} For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when He says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.
1 Corinthians 15:20-27 (NASB)
Jesus is Lord NOW! He has put ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER GOD'S FEET!
Jesus Christ conquered death! Jesus Christ is alive RIGHT NOW at the right hand of the Father!!!
There is only one LAST TRUMP! So when Jesus said,
{31} "And He will send forth His angels with
A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Matthew 24:31 (NASB)
That was one of the things that would happen IN THEIR LIFETIME!
{32} "Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near;
{33} so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. {34} "Truly I say
to you,
this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Matthew 24:32-34 (NASB)
Had the 7th trump sounded we would not now be in flesh bodies,Im done with you and this subject!!!!!!!
You assume the resurrection at the last trump was intended for us, but it was NOT, because WE have already been raised WITH HIM!!! We don't sleep in the ground waiting to be raised: we go straight to the Father upon death, because THAT'S WHERE WE ALREADY ARE SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING!!!
The resurrection Paul is talking about is this one:
{1} "Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands
guard over the sons of your people, will arise.
And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued. {2} "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:1-2 (NASB)
{13} "But as for you, go
your way to the end;
then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age."
Daniel 12:13 (NASB)
The angel is telling Daniel go to the end of your life when you will rest, then you willl be raised AT THE END OF THE AGE! THE "END OF THE AGE" was the end of the Mosaic Covenant - the 'age" of the Old Testament - that was completely finished in 70AD with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple!!!
The resurrection was for those righteous, faithful Jews who died before Christ's 1st advent and His death on the cross!!!
We don't need a resurrection, because we go to the Father immediately upon death!!!
http://bibleresources.bible.com/passagesearchresults.php?passage1=Matthew+7:6&version=9
Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
When you actually cast any pearls my way, I'll take offense at being called a swine.
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