Message #6721

[Mark]

"Limbo", as in, neither here nor there, hell or heaven.  If they are not in heaven, then that means they are not in hell, therefore it sounds like the 'purgatory' the Catholics believe, otherwise I don't understand what your belief is.  I have no scripture, because I can't find any where Jesus tells us that we will be in 'limbo'...or that our spirits will stay asleep; our bodies on the other hand will sleep until they are resurrected into the same body our Lord received when He ascended, at His coming, but I see scripture speaking plainly that our spirits will be with our Lord.

Well Catholic Purgatory is just like Hell. No real difference except you get out of it eventually if you pay enough money to the Catholic church. Purgatory and indulgences were created so the Popes could fund their wars. They do not exist and are not found in scripture.

I have no scripture, because I can't find any where Jesus tells us

Jesus himself is the Author of the whole Bible through the Holy Spirit. Not Moses or Paul or Luke or Amos. Jesus himself, so every word in the Bible is Jesus talking to us. He wrote 1 Th 4:13-18, so he told you right there. concerning them which are asleep he is talking about the dead, not those off snoozing. Paul didnt write that, well he penned it, but it came from Jesus through the Holy Spirit.

our bodies on the other hand will sleep until they are resurrected

  we get brand new bodies. Not these old earthly things. Dust to dust...

2Co 5:1  For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2Co 5:2  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
2Co 5:3  If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2Co 5:4  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
2Co 5:5  Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

1Co 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

but I see scripture speaking plainly that our spirits will be with our Lord.

And we will be, at the Rapture.