"After The Rapture" HOW LONG DO WE STAY IN HEAVEN BEFORE WE COME BACK TO EARTH ?

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"After The Rapture" HOW LONG DO WE STAY IN HEAVEN BEFORE WE COME BACK TO EARTH ?

I would like to know people thoughts on this. Not all are going to have the same thought on this but please share your thoughts. but if you have scriptures please give them. Because this is what i heard from my freind and I just didn't understand.
 
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phil112

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My bible says no such thing. Christ comes back for us to receive us so that we may dwell with him forever. Maybe you should get a different bible if yours says that.

John 14:2,3 "[SUP] [/SUP]In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
 

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Considering heaven is outside of time, the question is impossible to answer lol
 
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phil112

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Considering heaven is outside of time, the question is impossible to answer lol
Hardly, since we never "come back to earth".
 
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John_S

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There is NOT going to be a Pre-Trib Rapture. So don't worry about it because you aren't leaving.
 
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My bible says no such thing. Christ comes back for us to receive us so that we may dwell with him forever. Maybe you should get a different bible if yours says that.

John 14:2,3 "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
i didnt say my bible said that it was my freind
 
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i didnt say my bible said that it was my freind
I beg your pardon. Your friend is wrong. All you need do is show him scripture, and if he argues, tell him to show you scripture. That should end the discussion. :)
 
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right i know i just wanted to be clear that no one else thought that cuz i never heard it before
 

breno785au

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I beg your pardon. Your friend is wrong. All you need do is show him scripture, and if he argues, tell him to show you scripture. That should end the discussion. :)
Yeah! It can be like cc in real life yeah? I page can equal 1hour :D
 

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All your life
Genesis 1:8. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
The firmament is our atmosphere. we are already in heaven, or hell, depending upon how you lived your life, for as you have done, God will do to you. In order to understand what is waiting or us when we enter the Kingdom of God, You have to know the original meanings of the Hebrew letters and read it in the Old Testament. There were originally over 400 letters with individual meanings after the return from Babylon they were reduced to 22, if you go to Psalm 119 you can see them. Psalm 119 is divided into 22 sections of 8 verses each. The psalmist started each line with a single letter of the alphabet. Verse 1-8 started with the letter aleph, your Bible may have the Hebrew letter along with it's name at the beginning Schofields do. Most modern versions don't. the verses continue that way going through the whole alphabet, except for the letter variations, like the closed mem, the final nun, the final pe, and the final tzaddi. Which makes for a true letter count of 26. Some scholars have also created a "shen" which is just a "shin" with different vowel pointing, which are meaningless. These leters were the ones used during the Egyptian enslavement because they dealt with the family, and it's future. As a result no mater where you go in the Old Testament, you will find a statement of life in the Kingdom, where you will be perfect, your spouse will be perfect, your kids will be perfect, you will arrive with all of your memories, you will meet your soul mate as a child, and you will be together all of your lives. When your body wears out, God will give you a new one, and when you arrive here back on this earth, so will your soul mate, and you will begin again. Forever with the same person, though you will have different bodies, you will look different, but your personality will remain the same you will always be you. There is no rapture !! God doesn't work that way.

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Gary Sechler
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We stay in heaven forever to worship God. No one "returns" to this sin cursed earth
 

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Re: &quot;After The Rapture&quot; HOW LONG DO WE STAY IN HEAVEN BEFORE WE COME BACK TO EAR

I would like to know people thoughts on this. Not all are going to have the same thought on this but please share your thoughts. but if you have scriptures please give them. Because this is what i heard from my freind and I just didn't understand.
Heaven is going to be revealed RIGHT HERE ON EARTH on the day of Jesus' return to gather His Church after the tribulation.

Jesus is RETURNING back to this earth to the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem as written in Zechariah 14 and Acts 1. Per that He brings all the saints with Him to that spot on earth. We are NOT raptured to The Father's Abode in Heaven. We are seized by the angels Jesus sends to gather His saints to Jerusalem on earth where His elect will reign with Him from per Revelation 5:10.
 
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New Heavens and a New Earth


ISAIAH 65


17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.

The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.


Revelation 21 (NIV)


A New Heaven and a New Earth


21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
 

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New Heavens and a New Earth


ISAIAH 65


17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.

The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.


Revelation 21 (NIV)


A New Heaven and a New Earth


21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”


Though God's River and the tree of life is shown established on earth again for Christ's thousand years reign, the new earth and new heavens timing is for after the thousand years. The wicked won't see it.
 
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My guess is 22 days.
 
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I would like to know people thoughts on this. Not all are going to have the same thought on this but please share your thoughts. but if you have scriptures please give them. Because this is what i heard from my freind and I just didn't understand.
My understanding, from a prophetic view, is that the question is speaking of a pre-trib rapture., as such, the timeline would be according to the time of the Second Coming, which is according to Revelation, seven years after the rapture.

There are many verses, I give two here., see 1 thes.4:13-18 for the pre-trib rapture verse.. and Revel.19:11-16 for the Second Coming verse.
 

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My understanding, from a prophetic view, is that the question is speaking of a pre-trib rapture., as such, the timeline would be according to the time of the Second Coming, which is according to Revelation, seven years after the rapture.

There are many verses, I give two here., see 1 thes.4:13-18 for the pre-trib rapture verse.. and Revel.19:11-16 for the Second Coming verse.
Another deceived one.

There is NO pre-trib idea written in 1 Thess.4 by Apostle Paul.

Rev.19:11-21 is about Christ's 2nd coming, which is also when He gathers His Church. Those you see returning with Him there are these:

1 Thess 4:14
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
KJV

Matt 24:29-31
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
KJV