"Vandergraaf, Chuck" wrote:
> George,
>
> You are correct. I focussed more on the moment of death and should have
> mentioned the "resurrection of the body" in the Apostles' Creed. I don't
> have a Bible with me at the lab (I should bring one in), but I seem to
> recall a reference to the "souls under the altar" waiting impatiently for
> the resurrection.
>
> Yes. In Rev.6:9-11 the souls of the martyrs "under the altar in heaven" call
> for God's judgment & vengeance - which means the final coming of the kingdom.
> & this in fact brings out an important feature of Revelation, that heaven is
> (as far as humans are concerned) a temporary refuge for the souls of the
> martyrs during persecution. The final hope in Chapters 21-22, when all evil
> has been destroyed, is not of "going to heaven" but of the holy city coming
> down from heaven to the renewed earth.
Shalom,
George
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