My
Vision onWho Are Those Whom “God Will Bring With” Jesus? A Study of 1
Thessalonians 4:14
Some Adventists are trying to alter the teaching of
SDA pioneers on the state of the dead. https://atoday.org/who-are-those-whom-god-will-bring-with-jesus-a-study-of-1-thessalonians-414/
This prompted me to inquire of the Angel of the Lord as to the correct answer
to this “apparent” conundrum. Here is what I was shown.
The verses really pose no problem at all
notwithstanding all the complex language and reasoning of the author of the
article under peruse. I was shown that the key to resolving this question is
verse 15 and the word “prevent.”
Lexicon Results
Strong's
G5348 - phthanō
φθάνω
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Transliteration phthanō |
Pronunciation fthä'-nō (Key) |
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Part of Speech verb |
Root Word (Etymology) Apparently a primary verb
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TDNT Reference |
Vines |
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Outline
of Biblical Usage
1.
to
come before, precede, anticipate
2. to come to,
arrive at
3. to reach, attain
to
Authorized
Version (KJV) Translation Count — Total: 7
AV
— come
4, already
attain 1, attain
1, prevent
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Strong's Definition (Help)
(Legend)
φθάνω phthánō, fthan'-o; apparently a
primary verb; to be beforehand, i.e. anticipate or precede; by extension, to
have arrived at:—(already) attain, come, prevent.
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We which are alive and remain when Christ comes, will
not PREVENT those which sleep in Jesus. In other words, those who are alive
will not be caught up to the Lord BEFORE the resurrection and CATCHING UP of
the dead. They will rise first and Jesus will in effect bring them with Him to “catch-up”
the living to Him.
1Th
4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died
and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with
him.
1Th
4:15 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.
1Th
4:16 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:
1Th
4:17 Then 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.
In the
Name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
R.
William Beaulieu