Jerry Shugart
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Maybe Jerry thinks we can't be with the Lord in heaven while He is on the earth. I thought with God all things are possible.
Let us look at this passage:
"Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (1 Thess.4:17).
The first part of the verse is speaking about being in the vicinity of the actual presence of the Lord Jesus.
And the Greek word translated "so" means:
"By virtue of its native demonstrative force it refers to what precedes" (Thayer's Greek English Lexicon).
So when Paul writes that we will forever be with the Lord that can only be understood as being forever in the vicinity of the presence of the Lord Jesus.
So when the Lord Jesus returns to the earth to set up His earthly kingdom then those in the Body of Christ will be with Him. But those in the Neo-MAD camp deny that those in the Body of Christ will be on the earth during the kingdom when the Lord Jesus will reign.