<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ut1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't know of any theologian who translates "and the dead in Christ shall rise first" into "Dead in the belief of Christ."</div></div>

First of all, I don't listen to any theologian, I listen to the Holy word god provided for me. Listening to preachers blindly is not what the Lord wanted from us.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ut1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Besides that, there will be 144,000 Jews who have been set apart for this period of time, which many theologians believe are set aside to evangelize the world at that time.
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Evangilize when? during tribulation after the "rapture"? Why would there be anyone here to evanelize if the Lord has taken all Christians, and withdrawn the Holy Spirit? How could they possibly be saved then?