Being able to finally say my work is done! And like Paul say the race is finished! Then race is on to Heaven! TR :agree Its time for the 2 witnesses to take over ... the church is worn out ... we need to pass the baton on to them! Just thinking ... if there is a gap period of 1- 2 yrs from church age to start of the tribulation ... their ministry is only 3 1/2 years :scratch: so they don’t show up in Jerusalem right away ... not until Jesus opens up the seal judgment (Rev 5) and that is after the Praise ceremony (Rev 4) ... then that means we got lots of crazy planet earth stories to share with them before their bon voyage send off party B-) I don't see a gap of that size. After the Rapture the Lord would be anxious to accomplish His purposes! IMHO TR Yep, I’m sure its less of a gap than 2 yrs ... the question though is how long does the Judgment Seat last ... we can all bow our knees and confess Jesus as Lord simultaneously but we still are required individually to give an account of our actions ... that seems like it could take some time. Also is the Marriage Ceremony after the Judgment Seat and before the Praise Ceremony? If so ... do we all say “I Do” at the same time? :unsure: II Cor. 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Romans 14:11-12 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. If I may answer that, the Judgment Seat of Christ lasts for "a moment, a twinkling of an eye". It would be impossible to give an accounting of what we have done in these bodies, be it good or bad, after we have been changed from these bodies and have no more recollection of those events (at least the bad ones). The Judgment Seat of Christ, aka the Bema, is detailed in I Corinthians 3. At the moment He catches us up to assembly in the air, the same Spirit which has glorified our Christ will glorify us, thus being changed from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit (2 Cor 3:18, I John 3:2, I Corinthians 13:12). Those things which will be for rewards will stand through the fire (aka the process of glorification where God keeps works attached to the Spirit; our God is a consuming fire - Hebrews 12:29). What does not stand through the fire, or the process of glorification, will be burned and will be for loss of reward. However, the Fire will save us all, regardless. We will then be taken to heaven, which is the reason I Corinthians 15 tells us we will need to be changed; because flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (while it's still in heaven). In the throne room in Revelation 7, we are depicted as having been glorified. This is the meaning of the wiping of all tears from our eyes. Those are not trib saints or martyrs, as their resurrection to glory is detailed in Revelation 20 AFTER the 70th Week. Ours is beforehand. The Judgment Seat of Christ occurs at the moment of change to glory. For this reason, you don't see it in Revelation. When John was "in the Spirit" to behold the prophetic, he would have only seen that it had already happened. Thus, the presence of the elders seated in heavenly places, evidence of the redeemed royal priesthood from I Peter 2, followed by the entire group of glorified peeps in Revelation 7. The multitude that no man can number is the glorified and redeemed sons of Abraham through the Promised Seed which is Christ (Genesis 12:3, Genesis 22:18, Galatians 3).
