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1 | When does the soul go to heaven? | 1 Thess 5:9 | davisa30 | 165598 | ||
I was wondering when we die does the soul go directly to heaven or is it after the rapture? Could you please provide passages? Thanks. | ||||||
2 | When does the soul go to heaven? | 1 Thess 5:9 | mark d seyler | 165599 | ||
The born again are described by Paul in 2 Co 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. (NKJV) Some things in this passage are stated as fact, some are given as preferrences. Following are statements made in this passage: If our earthly body dies, we have a heaveny body. We want to put on our heavenly body. We do not want to be unclothed. We do not want to lose our earthly body, but to clothe it in our heavenly body. God had this in mind when He made us, and gave us His Spirit as the first part. When we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We would rather be away from our home in the body, and to be at home with the Lord. Here Paul is saying, in a nutshell, that nobody wants to die – we all want to be raptured. God created us for eternal life. Eternal life, in the eternal body, is what we want. But its not our wish to die, and leave this body, but rather, to be raptured, and put on the eternal body without ever experiencing physical death, the putting off of our body. But if we do die, we are with the Lord. We believe in Him Who put His Spirit in us, and we know the if we do die, we are with Him, because we walk by faith, not by sight. Walking by faith means that we count on what the Bible tells us, not what we see with our eyes. What does the Bible tell us, and what do we see with our eyes, concerning our being with the Lord? What we see with our eyes – that’s easy – we see this world, our physical bodies, what we do not see is Jesus! I don’t see Him anywhere! What the Bible tells us is very different. Col 3:1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. The Bible teaches us that we have already died and gone to heaven, to be with Jesus, as a completed action. Go back to 2 Cor 5. 6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. While we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith and not by sight. In what sense are we absent from the Lord? We know that God lives in us, and that He is everywhere. We are both physically and spiritually in His presence. Paul inserts this comment, that we walk by faith and not by sight, to clue us in. We are absent from the Lord in sight. If our walk were by sight, this would be to physically see Jesus. To see heaven. We do not see Him yet, so our walk is by faith. We are “at home” in our body. This is where our consciousness is, our sight. It is here, where our eyes and ears and hands and mouths are. It’s where our bodies are. We are in bodies that belong in this temporal environment, and are not equipped to exist, or even to be aware of, the heavenly realm. But where else are we? We are “hid with Christ in God”, “seated in the heavenlies with Jesus.” And at the resurrection, as our consciousness awakes in our immortal bodies, this fellowship doesn’t end or diminish. Physically, we sleep to this world, and this body, then wake to our eternal body. Spiritually, we live continuously with Jesus. 1 Thess 5:9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. I hope this helps! Love in Christ, Mark |
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