{"id":15668,"date":"2025-05-09T07:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15668"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:50:23","slug":"jesus-coming-vs-jesus-appearing-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15668\/jesus-coming-vs-jesus-appearing-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus&#8217; Coming vs Jesus&#8217; Appearing, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brad and I read and are discussing Vince\u2019s email and your response. While we found both to be very clarifying, they brought up a couple questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(1) If Jesus comes back to exhume our bodies and take them to heaven to glorify, then what happens if our bodies are ashes via cremation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(2) If after death our spirits are taken by the Lord to be with him, that indicates that our spirits are our true life. What is our soul? Is our spirit synonymous with our soul?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brad &amp; Allison<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for the questions.\u00a0 You two have really been thinking about these things.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>(1)\u00a0If Jesus comes back to exhume our bodies and take them to heaven to glorify, then what happens if our bodies are ashes via cremation?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>My brilliant answer: I have no idea.\u00a0\u00a0I just know that is what the Bible says Jesus will do.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>(2)\u00a0\u00a0If after death our spirits are taken by the Lord to be with him, that indicates that our spirits are our true life. What is our soul? Is our spirit synonymous with our soul?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>My answer: That\u2019s an easy one.\u00a0\u00a0A soul is the combination of a spirit and a body, as we see in creation: \u201cAnd Jehovah God formed the man from dirt of the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [spirit], and the man became a living soul\u201d (Gen. 2:7).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for the questions.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s the best I can do with them.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comments welcome:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1920823475393962155\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1920823475393962155<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Brad and I read and are discussing Vince\u2019s email and your response. While we found both to be very clarifying, they brought up a couple questions: (1) If Jesus comes back to exhume our bodies and take them to heaven to glorify, then what happens if our bodies are ashes via cremation? (2) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15672,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}