WHERE DO SAINTS LIVE AFTER THE RAPTURE?

Grace be to you all, and peace from God, our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ. In continuation of our epistles on the rapture, we write to you today by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit concerning where the saints of God amongst whom we are, spend eternity after the catching away of the church. We challenge the faith of everyone that will read this epistle to prove by the Word of our Lord that these things are so. For it is written in 1 Thess 5:21 “Prove all things and hold fast to that which is good.”

When our Lord Jesus Christ comes at the rapture to gather all saints to himself in the glory of our resurrected bodies, he takes us to heaven with Himself and presents us before the Father. Thereafter, we continue to live in the New Jerusalem in heaven while the tribulation is running its course on the earth as written in the scriptures (1 Thess 3:13, John 14:1-3, Isa 26:20-21). So then, what happens after the tribulation? Some men will ask? Do we saints remain in heaven thereafter? Do we return to the earth with Christ at the end of the tribulation? If we do, where shall we live on the earth in the millennium? Do we live in the present earthly Jerusalem that can barely accommodate four million people? How much more over one billion of saints that shall return with Christ? So then, do believers really know where they will spend eternity as revealed from the scriptures? By the Word of our Lord under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit we reveal the truth to you all.

At the rapture, all living saints of the most high God will be translated, taken to heaven, and will remain in heaven until after the tribulation when we shall return with Christ at His second coming to the earth at Armageddon to establish His millennial kingdom and reign wherein all living inhabitants of the earth at that time are subdued and governed by us under Christ’s authority (Rev 2:26-28) with a rod of iron (Rev 19:11-21, Zech 14:1-5, Jude 14, Matt 24:29-31, 25:31-46). Our return with our Lord to the earth begins the millennial reign of Christ and His Saints. During this time (the millennium), we will reign on earth with Christ (Rev 20:4-10) but continue to live in the New Jerusalem in Heaven. We (saints) will go back and forth from heaven to earth during the 1,000 years of our reign with Christ on the earth. Saints never live on this earth again after the rapture!!! But we reign on the earth (Rev 20:4-10, 21:9-10, Heb 12:22-23). Have you not read the scriptures wherein Apostle Paul declared that after the rapture, we shall ever be with the Lord and never to be separated again from Him (1 Thess 4:16-17)? And even our Lord Jesus never spent a whole day with His disciples after His resurrection despite being with them forty days? Some men may ask, what does this mean? How shall we reign on the earth and yet not live therein? Behold the angels of the Father; they walk to and fro from the Heaven to earth day and night to ensure that the will of the Father is being done on the earth. Do these angels live on the earth? No. But do they enforce the will of the Father so that all His prophecies concerning the nations and all creation are fulfilled? Yes. Likewise, so shall we be during our millennial reign with Christ on the earth. After the 1,000 year reign, we will move with our residence, the New Jerusalem, to the earth to live on the New Earth with God, our Father Himself, forever (Rev 21-22). The saints of God shall never be separated from the New Jerusalem forever, starting from the day of the rapture.

The natural people, who will be allowed to enter into the millennium after surviving the tribulation, will continue to live in the new earth as subjects of both Christ and we resurrected saints forever, if they do not rebel with Satan at the end of the millennium (Rev 20:7-10). They will live forever by virtue of the tree of life (Rev 22:2) and not by change of body from mortality to immortality as we are (1 Corinth 15:35-54, Phil 3:20-21). Both classes of human beings on earth then i.e. the resurrected ones (saints) and the natural ones will inhabit the earth forever (Psa 37:9, 11, 18, 29, 34, Gen 8:22, 9:12, 17:8, Isa 9:6-7, Dan 2:44-45, 7:13-14, 18, 27, Zech 14, Matt 5:5, Luke 1:32-33, Rev 11:15, 22:4-5)

Therefore beloved, having this hope of eternal life in the glory of a spirit body like our Lord Jesus Christ, and a city wherein we shall enter into God’s rest forever, let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for He is faithful that promised. For all the glory that is set before us,let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. Let us remain watchful at all times, living and walking in the Spirit moment by moment while looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ which is at the doors. Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Make His paths straight. Watch and be ready, for the coming of our Lord is at hand. It is even at the doors. May the Lord keep you all from falling away into sin and unrighteousness, as many of you that are willing to do His will, make you remain steadfast in holiness and perfect in obedience even unto His appearing. May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.