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I DIED. "What I mean, my brothers, is this: flesh and blood can never possess the Kingdom of God, and the perishable cannot possess immortality. Listen! I will unfold a mystery: we shall not all die, but we shall all be changed in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we shall be changed. This perishable being must be clothed with the imperishable, and what is mortal must be clothed with immortality. And when our mortality has been clothed with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will come true: 'Death is swallowed up; victory is won!' 'O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?' The sting of death is sin, and sin gains its power from the Law; but, God be praised, He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Cor 15:50-57 NEB).
"For this we tell you as the Lord's
word: we who are left alive until the Lord comes shall not forestall those who
have died; because at the word of command, at the sound of the archangel's voice
and God's trumpet These scriptures reveal that at a particular moment in the life of remaining faithful anointed ones on earth, and before the Spirit manifestation of The Christ's Second Coming, they are invested or spiritually clothed with immortality. It means their spirits cannot die. (1 Cor 15:54 NEB). That is to say, death can have no hold on their spirits, even if their spirits are taken into the process of death. It says that at the last "trumpet-call" "we shall all be changed" and shall "meet the Lord in the air" at his coming. (1 Thess 4:17 NEB). During the night of Saturday the 18th of Sept 1999 while I was sleeping, my spirit was briefly taken into the bitter and distressing process of death. I later awoke feeling greatly puzzled. The experience stayed with me until the following day when I prayed to my God for understanding of what had really happened to me. I searched the Scriptures, and came to the realization that the scriptures quoted above provide the answer: That to me death has lost its sting as to my spirit through the victory God has given me through our Lord Jesus Christ! (1 Cor 15:55 NEB). This means that my spirit has now been clothed with immortality! The experience itself lasted for only ten seconds or so, and I have not felt any change within me since then. Physically I feel the same as before it happened. Accordingly, as "flesh and blood can never possess the Kingdom of God", The Christ's word through the apostle Paul means that one's spirit is perishable until invested with spirit immortality. (1 Cor 15:50 NEB). Then, at the "last trumpet-call", the spirits of the faithful anointed dead shall rise immortal; and we, the faithful anointed living who have already been invested with immortality, will be changed to join them and "meet the Lord in the air."
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