Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain [on the earth] will simultaneously be caught up (raptured) together with them [the resurrected ones] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord! [John 14:3; 1 Cor 15:52; 2 Cor 5:8; Phil 1:23; Col 3:4] |
Subject: Searching for the truth |
Bible Note: Graceful Once again you said a lot but really didn't say anything. Yes we can be healed, yes God still heals today. However there is nothing in the word that says God has to heal you. There is nothing in the word that says once your a Christian you won't get sick again. You say there is a promise that God gives you desires of our heart. Your right however there is also scripture that says you ask and have not because you ask for things that feed the lust of our flesh. Think about it! When we seek healing are we asking to satisfy God's will or to satisfy our flesh? Let's use the case of Epaphroditus in Philip. 2. Here is a Christian man that gets sick doing the work of the Lord. Would you consider it possible that God allowed him to get sick to teach him to take care of himself? Now let's say Paul saw the first signs of Epaphroditus'sickness and told him he was getting sick and to pray for healing and God then healed him. Would he have learned the lesson God had for him. Think about it. Jesus said don't worry about what can kill the body worry about what can kill the spirit. Is it possible Epaphroditus was heading for spiritual burnout and God allowed him to get sick to give him time to rest, build himself up in the word and get about the Fathers business and if he he had been healed at the outset of the sickness none of this would have happened. See you always assume sickness is bad, but is it? Could it be used for a time of rest, a time of reflection, could it be the way God chooses to bring us home, could it be a time for us to realize what a blessing health is so we can teach others, could it be a way to bless others by showing them that even through adversity believers still find a victory in Jesus? Could God be using a sickness for any of these things? Before you say no, how do you know? EdB |