(1 Corinthians 15:35-49) But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?” 36 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; 37 and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
Remember that the first resurrection was Jesus's resurrection, making the second and third possible. Paul goes into more detail about what happens to our bodies at the second resurrection (at the time of the rapture) which will occur right before the Tribulation.
REGARDING "THE LAST TRUMPET" (mentioned in verse 52 mentioning)
- SOME theologians will use this verse to prove their stance that the rapture will happen in the middle of the Tribulation, since after the 7 trumpet judgments (in Revelation), there are no other trumpets mentioned in the Bible.
- BUT - from everything we have read so far and with everything we will read as we continue, putting all of that into context, a mid-Trib.-rapture does not make any sense.
- ALSO - trumpets have been used in the past to summon an assembly. They would typically have a series of trumpet warnings, with the last trumpet signalling that THIS IS IT!!! (It is time! It is starting NOW!) We could look through the Bible and find enough warnings ("trumpets") to signify that we should be ready for this - the "last trumpet" of the Church Age...
(1 Corinthians 15:50-58) Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
Today's takeaway: we have no idea if there will actually be a series of trumpets blown, giving some people a few seconds more to become believers right before the rapture; but people are given ample amounts of time and opportunity now to turn to God...
(Isaiah 56:1-3a) Thus says the Lord, “Preserve justice and do righteousness, for My salvation is about to come and My righteousness to be revealed.
2 “How blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who takes hold of it; who keeps from profaning the sabbath, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from His people.”
2 “How blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who takes hold of it; who keeps from profaning the sabbath, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from His people.”
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