You know, we’re both going to die.
“That for sure! Unless, of course, Jesus returns beforehand, and changes us so that it isn’t necessary to die.”
Are you expecting that to happen in your case?
“Well, it could. I’m younger than you (sorry to have to bring up the point).”
No problem. I know how old I am; my body won’t let me forget it. But back to the subject—are you looking forward to the second coming as a way of escaping death?
“Well . . . sorta’”
Hmmmm. Are you looking forward to death if that’s what will happen instead?
“That’s a bit different.”
How come?
“Well . . . I’m not sure.”
Will the transition from life to larger life by death be any different?
“Dunno.”
In either case, you will be with the Lord. which Paul says is “far better. And Jesus told the thief that when they died they’d be together that very day in Paradise.
“Yea. You’re right. But I wouldn’t yet have my glorified body.”
Correct. But with or without a body, Paul said that in Paradise, which he equated with the third heaven, he heard all sorts of good stuff he couldn’t reveal
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