The Hope

This life changing teaching on “the Hope”, hope is clarified. What happens upon death, the 1st & 2nd coming of Christ and body-soul-spirit is rediscovered. ----------------------------------- “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” These are words of comfort. You see, if some people were already up there and we were still slave-laboring down here, it wouldn’t be any fun. But the way God has worked this out is that everybody gets there at the same time with all the blessings that He has made available –and what a tremendous truth, people! Now, that is the first phase of Christ’s second coming. Do you understand it? He comes for his people, the saints. Those who have died since the day of Pentecost as believers. Their bodies are corrupted. The dead in Christ are going to be what? Raised what? [First.] Then those which are alive and remain at that moment have to be what? Changed. And they’re mortal. That’s why those mortals have to put on immortality. And those who have been corrupted have to put on what: Incorruption. It’s so simple, yet it answers every question that the human could ask. First phase is Christ's coming for his saints or for the Church of the Body, called the gathering together. The second phase of the return is Christ’s coming with his saints. Just a change of prepositions. First, his coming for his saints. Second phase is coming with them. In the first phase, he does not come upon the earth, right? Meet him in the air. Second phase, he comes upon the earth; but he comes with his saints. That coming with the lord of the second phase – the Greek word is apokalupsis; English word – they call it “apocalypse,” translated over in to the word “revelation.” It is called “the Day of the Lord” in the Book of Revelation, when he comes with his saints upon the earth.