alive. These Christians who remain alive at Christ’s coming will not precede those Christians who are dead. They will wait for the dead in Christ to be raised up from the grave first, then at the twinkling of an eye “we shall all be changed”.

 

1Cor. 15: 51 -52 tells us: “Behold I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep (all be dead), 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”. 


Here we find the same thing written in 1 Cor. 15: 51 and 52. “We shall not all sleep”, says the scripture, At Christ’s return there will be Christians asleep/dead in their graves but there will also be Christians who are still alive then!  “But we shall all be changed”, the scriptures go on to say. 


All Christians, those who just came up from their graves as well as those who are still alive at Christ’s coming will be changed, at the “twinkling of an eye”, from mortal to immortal. From physical to spirit beings.  


If we are to enter the Kingdom of God, then there must be a changed. It is simply not possible to see or to enter the Kingdom of God while we are flesh and blood.  


1Cor. 15: 50 tells us: “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption”. The Kingdom of God is the government and the family of God (Isai. 9: 6, Dan. 2: 44, Eph 3: 15)! 


Jesus said: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God’ (John 3: 3). Then in verse five (John 3: 5) Jesus said: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God”. Christ went on to say: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3: 6). We are born of flesh now and we are now flesh. In verse eight (John 3: 8) Jesus continued to explain to Nicodemus that when the wind blows you hear it but cannot tell where it is coming or going. Then He says: “So (like the wind) is every one that is born of the Spirit” (John 3: 8). Friends, just as you cannot see the wind, you are not able to see anyone who is born again because he is changed from physical to spirit. 


In Luke 20: 35 and 36 Jesus was responding to a question asked by the Sad-du-cees who denied that there is any resurrection (Luke 20: 27). Jesus answered and said to them, concerning the resurrection from the dead: “But they which shall be accounted worthy to