I understand what you are saying although I would dispute that being beheaded or crucified comes under common trials and tribulations as opposed to being fired from a job or laughed at by someone. When Paul and others wrote about such things they were very common. The main point I was making is that the Pre Trib position is potentially dangerous because it lulls some people into a false sense of security.
I would agree. The phrase beheaded for the witness of God is just showing who is the head. Our husband Christ.
It a soul shows one doing the will of another, called the witness of men.... the lesser witness than the word that can make them a witness.
The word martyr simply with no other meaning added mean "witness', again with no other meaning attached. No one will receive their new promised incorruptible body with a head of its own until the last day.
It’s our new souls according the new spirit we receive at salvation that we call beheaded. All in Adam die. The headship is never in respect to that which is seen. Therefore all will receive in the twinkling of the eye their new promised bodies.
There will not be any new incorruptible bodies that will never perish hanging around for a literal thousand years. The thousands years as an unknown literal number represents the last days up until the end.
The last trump signals the end of time, judgment day and not the beginning of a literal thousand year reign with Christ on this corrupted fallen order, or at least according to the two witnesses below.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall
all be changed,In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 1Co 15:51
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which
are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that
we which are alive and remain “unto the coming of the Lord” shall not prevent
them which are
asleep.For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first:T
hen we which are alive and remain shall be caught up “together”
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 1Th 4:13
Both together in the twinkling of the eye. Which the phrase twinkling of the eye is not designed, as a metaphor to equal a literal thousand years.