I do not scoff at the returning of Christ. I scoff at your timing for the return of Christ because it conflicts with the timing Christ gives us. That is a big difference.
YES, AGREED!!!
What about them? Saints are Saints. There is no such thing as a Pre Trib Saint and a Trib Saint. You make that distinction but the Bible contains no such distinction. The reason the Bible never makes such a distinction is because there is no distinction. A saint is a saint. When a saint dies, he or she goes to heaven.
There is no Seven years later. When Christ comes, He defeats His enemies and gathers His ELECT. The 7 years, as you call it, come before Christ returns and I'm talking ANY return.
This happens on the LAST DAY - John 6:40, 44, 54 and other places. This does not happen before the Tribulation and no passage ever tells you it does.
Revelation 20 does seem to tell us this. Other passages such as Dan 12 and Mat 13 and 24 seem to indicate a more simultaneous resurrection but I can certainly see the wicked being resurrected 1,000 years later. I am not really focused on the wicked right now other than to want to help them come to Christ.
There is a lot of speculation in the above statement.
YES, AGREED!!!
What about them? Saints are Saints. There is no such thing as a Pre Trib Saint and a Trib Saint. You make that distinction but the Bible contains no such distinction. The reason the Bible never makes such a distinction is because there is no distinction. A saint is a saint. When a saint dies, he or she goes to heaven.
There is no Seven years later. When Christ comes, He defeats His enemies and gathers His ELECT. The 7 years, as you call it, come before Christ returns and I'm talking ANY return.
This happens on the LAST DAY - John 6:40, 44, 54 and other places. This does not happen before the Tribulation and no passage ever tells you it does.
Revelation 20 does seem to tell us this. Other passages such as Dan 12 and Mat 13 and 24 seem to indicate a more simultaneous resurrection but I can certainly see the wicked being resurrected 1,000 years later. I am not really focused on the wicked right now other than to want to help them come to Christ.
There is a lot of speculation in the above statement.
Remember you Scoffed, when you find yourself left behind.
Yes, Sanctified is the same in all time periods, but there certainly ARE THREE TIME PERIODS
Old Testament Times,
Church-age Times,
and
Tribulation Period Times.
Plus you are wrong about the BIBLE NOT make that distinction:
Revelation 20:4 (ESV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. {THOSE are members of the ASSEMBLY THAT HE HAS BUILT, both OT Saints and Church-age Saints} Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. {THOSE are the Martyred Saints of the Tribulation Period.} They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.