patrick jane forums

There is so little support for these kinds of things, it needs to stop. 

the only reason for answering what happens to people who die before Christ's return was to show that God has a different way of putting us all back together than for the ones who are still living.  It is not an intersection about 2 programs because there are not 2 programs.  It is not 'one stops here to make way for the other for a while' because there is no such thing.

There is too little support for a kingdom on this earth, from geographic Jerusalem, etc.  The NT does not go this direction.  'In the Seed all nations of the earth will be blessed' which is explained in Gal 3 as Christ's gospel for them.

The longest treatment of these things is 2 Peter 3 and it does not have anything millenial or Judaic in it.  Nor do any of the shorter NT passages on it. 

Don't base anything on the Revelation that is not crystal clear from the letters--says the Reformation.  It was the Catholic Counter-Reformation that piped up the first futurist sequential scheme, the Jesuit apologist Ribera.  Enjoy your pals.