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02:12What awaits all of us Christians who have lived according to the teachings
02:17of Jesus Christ. This final dimension of man involves two aspects, one that develops
02:26in heaven where everything is peace, joy, endless bliss, but on the other hand it has the other side
02:32to lead to darkness, to eternal damnation, so that eschatology then
02:41It has an ending that for some may be one of great joy, of eternal happiness, but for others it may
02:50to be of eternal damnation. That is why our life is important and why we should also know
02:56what God offers us. We can say, then, that eschatology is a consequence of...
03:02human being and action in relation to God. That is to say, humanly speaking, it is inevitable that the
03:09man dies and may this death place him in a dimension where all things
03:14They will change, and this will be definitive and eternal. There is no way this won't happen for the
03:21man. That is why eschatology or the end is destiny but it is also a
03:28man's free vocation, for man will have in his freedom, notwithstanding having
03:34He has been called to share in the eternal joy that man will have to choose the way
03:42and the destiny he desires for himself in this new stage of his life.
03:48I mean, frequently in this life we are choosing and putting our lives at stake
03:55eternal reality. In a few years, the one who lives the longest, the scripture says, will be one hundred and
04:01In this brief span of time, eternity is at stake. That's why it's important.
04:09We need to be aware of this topic and keep it in mind because we have to make the decision. It's a
04:16Vocation, God has called us to it, but it is a free decision and choice of each one
04:23It depends on us whether we want to accept God's plan to live with him eternally or prefer
04:29to separate ourselves from him from this earth and live eternally without him. This new reality is
04:36It presents itself to us as a mystery that we cannot penetrate on our own. It is
04:42It is therefore necessary that God reveal this dimension to us. It is precisely in this revelation that
04:49Man must develop faith, that very faith and hope that will shape our destiny.
04:58as the guarantee of what is expected, the proof of realities that are not seen.
05:06In the eschatological event of Jesus, Paul, with all the apostolic tradition expressed
05:13In the ancient creeds or symbols of faith, it distinguishes, but does not separate, in the one mystery
05:22of Christ the two moments of Christian faith and hope, the Paschal Christ and the
05:28Christ of the Parousia. The Paschal Christ, dead and risen, is the center and foundation of
05:36Faith, hope, and love. It is the fundamental theological element within theology.
05:44from the Pauline and Apostolic Gospel. We can see this in the main Pauline letters and
05:51constantly throughout the Pauline corpus. It would suffice to review 1 Thessalonians,
05:59In chapter 1, verse 10, it already speaks of this, as does chapter 4, verse 14.
06:05In First Corinthians, in chapter 15, in Romans it already begins from chapter 1,
06:11In Galatians it also begins in chapter 1, in Colossians in chapter 2, Ephesians
06:17Chapter 1. That is, if we can see, on the other hand, the immediate expectation of Christ
06:24The paruchia is equally important throughout the Pauline quaerigma. It is reproduced in it
06:32The joyful and Eucharistic invocation of the Apostolic Church of Jerusalem. Maranatha,
06:39Come, Lord Jesus. This has been the cry, the continuous expectation of the church that is
06:47always attentive to the return of their Messiah, their Lord. It is for all these reasons that the texts
06:55Paulines on the final resurrection are very numerous. We would base appointments with the most
07:02Famous ones. We have, for example, 1 Thessalonians 4, 13, 18 and 1 Corinthians 15, which are
07:11There are frequent references to the consummation of the kingdom and the new creation. This demonstrates
07:19that Pauline eschatology has an eschatological face and that both moments of Christ, the
07:26Pascual and the Parousiaco, while different, are inseparable, as is evident
07:35in 1 Thessalonians 1:10. I would like you to open your Bible now and let us go precisely
07:41This text from Thessalonians 1:10. In this text we find the following.
07:47And to wait for his Son Jesus, who is to come from heaven, whom he raised from the dead.
07:55and that saves us from the coming wrath. As we see in this text, the community's expectation
08:05Christian is that Maranatha, that is, the waiting for Jesus Christ who, as this text says,
08:12He is to come in glory from heaven. This Jesus whom God raised from the dead. And that is what
08:19that even today the church, we, you and I, are still waiting for. That's why when we go
08:25Here in the Eucharist, at the end of the consecration we say, come Lord Jesus, we are waiting for you,
08:33Don't delay any longer. This is the central part of our entire life as Christians. The waiting
08:41glorious of Jesus, which for some, well, it will be at the end of times, when it ends
08:48Everything has already been created. But for others, which is most likely what will happen to us, it will be
08:54at the moment of our death. Okay, let's now look at some of the main points.
08:59of Pauline eschatology. Let us begin, then, by speaking of the paruchia. The paruchia is a word
09:09which comes from Greek and means the same thing, arrival as coming. That is, paruchia
09:17It is arrival, but it is also coming. In biblical texts it is always referred to as the
09:23The second coming of Christ. He appears four times in 1 Thessalonians, we can say
09:31which is one of the writings where it appears most frequently. The first idea that Saint Paul presents to us in
09:37His letter to the Thessalonians is about waiting for Jesus to come from heaven. If
09:44If you want, let's go to this text from Thessalonians. Let's go to this text.
09:50They themselves tell of us how we came to you and how you turned to God.
09:56having abandoned idols to serve the living and true God and thus await his
10:04Jesus, the son who is to come from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, and who
10:10It saves us from the coming wrath. This text, which we had already mentioned in its final part.
10:18We see the firm belief that Christ's promise to return completely permeated the
10:24thought of the evangelization of the first community. Along with this, it is faithfully expressed
10:31The querym concerning the death and resurrection of Christ. That is, the one who is to come is the
10:38He who died and now lives forever. This coming is what will cleanse us from
10:44the coming wrath. This is an expression that has been much discussed and above all it is not very
10:51clear. However, with this expression, Saint Paul refers, already from the experience of
10:58Old Testament, the purifying action that God will perform in the people. And this then
11:04This is not new, since Jesus himself had already spoken about it when he told the last parable
11:11from the parabolic section of Matthew, where at the end of the fishing the fish are separated,
11:17The bad ones are thrown away and the good ones are gathered in baskets. In this now parabolic vision,
11:23Well, someone might say, just grab it and throw away all the trash. No. I mean, they're fish.
11:29They're useless fish. But in this sense, it's not that they're useless to us, it's not that he's discarding them.
11:37Otherwise it would be a consequence, a consequence of non-conversion, and for that we have to take
11:44Taking into account all the parabolic analysis the apostle has been doing in this section, to
11:52I understand that it is a consequence of my lack of conversion. Now, regarding the moment when this
12:00Paruchia must happen; the apostle thought it was imminent and that he himself would be alive.
12:07to participate in it, as it tells us in First Thessalonians, in chapter 4.
12:14I invite you to watch this quote, which is very important because it helps us understand this.
12:20an element of the paruching that was expected to be imminent but ultimately is not. Chapter 4,
12:28First Thessalonians. Let's go to verse 15. In this text it tells us,
12:34We tell you this as the word of the Lord. We who are alive, who remain until his coming.
12:41From the Lord, we will not precede those who have died. The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry,
12:50in the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, and those who died in Christ will rise first.
12:57Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the
13:04clouds along with them. We will all go together to meet the Lord in the air.
13:12This quote tells us precisely how the end was already imminent. People were already expecting his return.
13:21of Jesus. In this quote we are mainly pointing out that certainly not everyone will die. That is,
13:32There will be some people who will remain at the end of time. But Paul says,
13:38No one will go before, because at the same time the dead will rise, and those of us who are alive will be resurrected.
13:45Those who are alive at that time will also be taken along with those who died first, and all of us
13:53We will be gathered together in heaven. In 1 Corinthians 15, verse 51, it says
14:00Next. Look, I'll reveal a mystery. Not all of us will die, but we will all be transformed into a
14:09an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the final trumpet blast, for the trumpet will sound, the dead
14:17They will rise incorruptible, and we will be transformed. That is, at this moment...
14:25They will raise all the dead, they will recover their flesh, their bones, we will be again what we once were
14:33Always. This body, just as we see it now, will be resurrected, although with different characteristics.
14:40And well, although Pablo saw being alive as possible and desirable, as we were just discussing for
14:47The parucia, however, acknowledged that the date of the event was uncertain. Therefore, in this same
14:55text, but now in chapter five, which, with regard to time and moment, says that it does not
15:02So it has an exact date, right? He says there's no need for him to write to you, because you yourselves know.
15:10I know perfectly well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, something I had already said.
15:16The Lord is alluding there to what Jesus had already told us in the Gospel. And that is why again
15:24Saint Paul warns that the Parousia, the return of the Lord, will be something unexpected, but that at the same time
15:31This time, this return of our Lord already foreshadows a judgment, as we said at the beginning, right? I mean, no
15:41Does that mean that because I was baptized, I'm automatically going to heaven, or because I am a
15:48Human being, no. In the end there will be a judgment, as our Lord clearly indicates, very clearly in the
15:56Chapter twenty-five of the Gospel of Matthew. Continuing the line drawn from the Old Testament
16:04In his Testament, Paul teaches that at the coming of the Lord there will be a judgment in which each one will be
16:11judged by his own works. This in the Old Testament was known as the day of reckoning.
16:18Yahweh, that is, Amos himself in chapter five, verses eighteen to twenty, from eighteen to
16:24Twenty, speaks of this. The same suphonies in the first chapter, verses fourteen to eighteen.
16:32These ideas from the Old Testament are now taken up by Paul in his letters to call
16:38Now it is the Lord's Day, the day of Jesus Christ. And this speaks to us with a certain connotation.
16:48judicial, that is, we will be judged. That is why we must bear this in mind, my brothers, because
16:58In the end, they will see our good and bad deeds, they will see how our path has been and whether we truly...
17:06He has a relationship with God because he already belongs to the kingdom of heaven. In relation to himself, Paul does not give him a relationship with God, since he already belongs to the kingdom of heaven.
17:16He places importance on the judgment of the community because he trusts in this future judgment. In this sense, he states in his
17:24letter to the Corinthians, in the first to the Corinthians, that because he doesn't care about being judged by a
17:32court, or by them, or by whomever. He defers rather to God's judgment. He says, not even I myself
17:41I judge myself, don't I? I mean, he doesn't judge himself. He says, it's true that he doesn't reproach me for anything.
17:49conscience, that is, I am at peace, I am at peace with you, I have done nothing. Let them remember that
17:55There was all this diatribe there with the Judaizers and the people who were slinging mud at him, as we saw in the
18:00Letter to the Corinthians, right? And then in this section he makes a small apology, but not to
18:08not to defend myself, but simply to say, I have nothing, that is, they have no reason to judge me and
18:15It's not that I'm justifying myself, is it? Nor that I'm justifying myself, but that Jesus is...
18:22He has justified me, and He will be my judge. So do not judge me prematurely. The Lord
18:30He will come and he is the one who will clarify our works, because as the Mexican saying goes, faces
18:38We see, but we don't know hearts, and so we judge only by appearances. Saint Paul says, "Do not..."
18:47Judge by appearances. The Lord will judge me. I have nothing in my conscience to repent of.
18:54However, He will ultimately judge my works. In a slightly broader view,
19:02We can also look at 2 Corinthians 5:10. Let's look at this text. In this text, it tells us why it is necessary
19:11that we may all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due to him.
19:18It refers to what he did during his mortal life, good or evil. This makes it perfectly clear.
19:25and confirms what we already mentioned before from chapter 25 of Matthew, where it clearly
19:34It presents us with a judgment at the end. In the end, the king will sit and judge, he will put a
19:41He put the sheep on one side and the goats on the other. Some will go to glory and others to the other.
19:49to perdition. And it mentions there that the point of judgment will be charity. So, we are left with
19:58Of course, and St. Paul includes this, it speaks to us of the continuity that exists between preaching
20:04of Christ and what the first communities were already applying to their lives. Remember that
20:10All the letters, as we have said throughout this course, come to correct
20:15Mistakes were being made in the evangelization efforts. In other words, the evangelization was being done
20:22through what we find in the synoptic Gospels. And the letters reinforce some of these themes.
20:29As in this case, the issue of the trial, so that it is clear that if I misbehave, this will have consequences.
20:35consequences, as Saint Paul clearly states in his letter to the Galatians, in chapter
20:416. Don't be deceived about God; no one mocks Him. And well, a valuable piece of information from the preached gospel.
20:49Paul believed that Jesus saves us from the coming wrath. But now, faced with the prospect
20:57In the judicial discourse on eschatology, Pablo demands irreproachable conduct from his recipients and
21:04Pray that it will be so. Why? Because this is what will result. Instead
21:11of a fatal destiny, right? Which he identifies as the wrath of God where you are going to go
21:19To hell, right? But that's going to be the consequence. I'm convinced that even in the last
21:26At that moment the Lord will ask us for conversion. And the man who has hardened his heart, who has become hardened, will be hardened.
21:32Rooted in sin, he will respond, I am not going to repent. Then, it is a consequence,
21:40Right? That it can be interpreted, it can be manifested, just like the wrath of God. Then it says
21:45From Saint Paul, so behave yourselves, right? We have to have, I mean, he demands a
21:51perfect conduct so that the consequence of his life is to participate eternally in
21:58The prize that God has offered us. And in this sense we have some texts such as the following
22:05I would like us to look at 1 Thessalonians, chapter 3, verses 12 and 13.
22:12As for you, may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another.
22:19others and in love for all, as is our love for you, so that they may be strengthened
22:26their hearts with blameless holiness before our God the Father at the coming of our
22:33Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. So we have this clear invitation to be perfect,
22:40to be saints. Again, in this same letter, where he places great importance on all of this,
22:48In this same letter, but now in chapter 5, in verse 23, it says the following, that God
22:54May the Lord sanctify you with the power of peace, he emphasizes the theme there, may He fully sanctify you and your whole being,
23:03May the spirit, soul, and body be kept without stain, he emphasizes there, be kept without stain
23:12until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. There you have the invitation to remain in holiness.
23:20and not to pollute our lives so that the consequence is not the wrath of God, that is,
23:26eternal damnation, not as a punishment, but as a consequence of my evil deeds,
23:33of having decided not to live in holiness. Again he insists, it is one of the few quotes that appears in
23:40Other letters, but also in Philippians chapter 1, verses 9 and 10, say the following,
23:46And what I ask in my prayer is that his love may grow more and more in knowledge and all experience,
23:54so that they may appreciate the best and arrive clean and without stumbling at the day of Christ, that is, at the Paruchia.
24:04It should be noted, therefore, that these passages emphasize holiness and, in particular, the practice of love.
24:11fraternal, because as we have said, this text from Matthew 25 speaks precisely about the theme of charity.
24:19In reality, the practice of the three theological virtues is essential in this perspective.
24:25Eschatological. Faith is the beginning of our life in Christ; hope is the virtue that gives security.
24:33in the face of the final perspective, charity is the daily commitment as a fruit of faith and the demand of hope.
24:42Therefore, if we return again to 1 Corinthians, in chapter 13, we will recall this tremendous elegy of love,
24:53As in the end, when he has spoken about love as the most important value, he ends by saying the following,
24:59Now faith, hope, and charity remain, these three; but the greatest of these is charity, and it will remain forever.
25:13In the time of the New Testament there were different conceptions about the fate of the dead.
25:19The Sadducees, for example, simply believed that man is dust and returns to dust, something that many people still believe.
25:27They did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. There is no hope after death.
25:34The Pharisees, on the other hand, maintained that man returns to dust, but they expected the resurrection that would take place at the end of time.
25:45The time between death and resurrection was like a kind of void.
25:51Many Jews, contemporaries of Paul, influenced mainly by Greek culture, believed that man is a being composed of soul and body.
26:02After death, the body dissolved into the earth, while the soul went to eternal happiness or eternal punishment.
26:11This is clear, that is, this influence on the wisdom texts, which are Greek texts, which are texts that most likely come from Antioch, from the Jewish community of Antioch,
26:24And that is why they are not considered, as we have already seen, by the separated brethren, as texts of Scripture, but are considered as spurious.
26:34But, in this sense, which was adopted within Jewish culture, originating from the Greeks,
26:46They were not thinking about resurrection, but about the immortality of the soul, an idea largely borrowed, mainly from Platonic themes.
26:56The Pauline writings affirm, in various ways, the resurrection of the dead,
27:03And the basis for such a conviction is not found in logical reasoning,
27:09nor in the Pharisaical stance towards the Sadducees, but it is an event.
27:16The resurrection of Christ is an event, it is something of which there are witnesses.
27:21So, all these thoughts, that is, dying and going to dust, and not returning, are not like that.
27:32When you die, and the soul separates, the body stays here, and it doesn't return to life, it's not like that either.
27:43The body returns completely to the soul, and it is the same person who is resurrected.
27:52The believer in Christ, therefore, unites himself to Him in such a way that in the end he will rise again like Him.
28:01We will be resurrected by God, just as Christ was resurrected.
28:08It doesn't matter that we have already turned to dust, we will be reconstituted again in flesh and blood.
28:17in a different way, with different properties, but it will be this same flesh, this same person that I am now.
28:26Paul's controversies regarding the resurrection of the dead are found in his correspondence addressed to the Greek communities.
28:36specifically to Thessalonica and Corinth.
28:40In the book of Acts, he also recounts the failure of Paul's preaching in Athens,
28:46precisely when he mentions the topic of resurrection.
28:49In other words, this topic is completely incomprehensible to the Greeks.
28:55I mean, it's okay, you die, and then, well, your soul, how nice, went to heaven, went to the reward, went to the punishment.
29:02But the idea of resurrection, of having flesh and bones again, and being ourselves, that will be shocking to the culture.
29:11He tells us, for example, in Acts 17:32,
29:16When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some sneered, and others said,
29:22We'll hear from you about this on another occasion.
29:26And of course, Greek thought readily accepted the idea of immortality.
29:32But he rejected the idea of resurrection, understood simply as a return to matter.
29:38In other words, it was illogical; I mean, when you don't have your concepts in mind, it's difficult to accept it.
29:47We do, because we have the testimonies of all those who saw Christ risen from the dead.
29:52And they are, therefore, now the source of our hope, and that is what we now find in Scripture,
29:59And that's why it's no longer repugnant to us, it's no longer something that seems completely strange to us.
30:05Certainly, when one thinks about it and delves deeper, one says,
30:09Oh, Carlitos! Well, I wonder what this will be like, right?
30:12But it remains, in any case, a mystery to us that we accept by faith.
30:19Already in First Thessalonians, in chapter 4,
30:23As Saint Paul states, we saw it a moment ago,
30:26that those who died in Christ will rise first, and after that all the rest.
30:33But all who go to punishment and all who go to glory will be resurrected.
30:41In other words, our body will undoubtedly return to our soul.
30:48We will merge again and become what we are now.
30:55but with different properties, some for glory and others for eternal damnation.
31:03In 1 Corinthians, chapter 15,
31:07This is where Paul addresses the topic of the resurrection of the dead in more detail.
31:12From that chapter we can briefly mention some important aspects to avoid the topic altogether.
31:21The resurrection, says Saint Paul, will take place at the second coming of Christ.
31:27But since it was thought that this would be very soon,
31:30So it was assumed that not everyone would be dead.
31:35Those who have died will rise again,
31:37But those who were still alive would only be transformed.
31:42We already saw this text recently, right?
31:46where he talks about revealing this mystery,
31:48where not everyone would die, but some would be alive and others dead.
31:54The dead regain their flesh
31:56and those who are alive are transformed
32:00And all, as it says in Thessalonians,
32:02They will all gather immediately, then, in the clouds.
32:07Cosmological thought of that time.
32:11In other words, not all of us are going to die.
32:13Well, I think I do, right?
32:15But not all of us will die,
32:17But we will all be resurrected,
32:20We're going to get our meat back,
32:22But he says, we will be transformed.
32:25Those of us who are alive will be transformed, why?
32:27Because in the resurrection our flesh will have different properties than it does now.
32:36This transformation or resurrection will be for everyone.
32:41good and bad,
32:42for those who are going to heaven,
32:44but also for those who will be eternally condemned.
32:48In other words, it's a general resurrection
32:50And in that resurrection or in that transformation we will all participate,
32:55Some for glory and others for perdition.
32:59When we step off the timeline,
33:02when we step outside our human realm
33:05and we enter the realm of God,
33:07We are now entering the realm of mystery
33:09And that's why many of these elements,
33:12Well, they sound familiar or seem familiar to us,
33:14Well, they are difficult to understand.
33:15probably within everything we've seen
33:18in the Pauline letters
33:20and of his spirituality of Saint Paul,
33:23Here we enter directly into the mystery of God
33:26And so, we need to take some references.
33:28which are, therefore, mysterious,
33:31but they already let us see a glimmer of light
33:34of what will be,
33:38In other words, how it will be done.
33:40Let's talk about us now,
33:42how will it happen in us,
33:44what do we expect from ourselves,
33:49of our flesh, of our life, right?
33:51And the first thing we have to say
33:53is that the resurrection
33:54It will not be a simple recovery of life
33:58with the current features,
34:00As I have mentioned many times,
34:02but of a true transformation,
34:05as Saint Paul calls it.
34:07It will be the same person,
34:10but with a transformed body,
34:13a transformed body.
34:17It says in First Corinthians,
34:19which is where we've been reading
34:20this topic of transformation,
34:22in verses 35 through 38,
34:26says Pablo,
34:27But some will say,
34:29How do the dead rise from the dead?
34:31With what body do they return to life?
34:34Foolish,
34:36What you sow does not come back to life,
34:39but dies.
34:40And what you sow is not the body that will sprout,
34:44but a simple grain of wheat
34:46or from some other plant.
34:48That is to say,
34:48When we sow the grain,
34:52because what comes out is not that grain,
34:54but the plant that was already in that grain emerges.
34:59And from there come grains like the initial grain.
35:03That is to say,
35:04Something is sown and that something is transformed.
35:08what Saint Paul is saying.
35:09A little further on in the text,
35:12Let's go to verses 42 through 44,
35:16The apostle says the following.
35:18So also in the resurrection of the dead,
35:22Corruption is sown and incorruptibility is resurrected.
35:26Vileness is sown, but glory is raised up.
35:30weakness is sown,
35:32revive strength,
35:34an animal body is sown
35:36and raises a spiritual body.
35:40In other words, we would say,
35:40There is more than just animal,
35:41a carnal body,
35:43TRUE?,
35:43that has meat.
35:44But of course,
35:45referring to our participation in this world,
35:49No?
35:49So,
35:50What did we recover?
35:51Well, now we recover a spiritual body.
35:55What is a spiritual body, Father?
36:00Well, we'll have to wait for the resurrection.
36:02TRUE?,
36:03to know exactly what a spiritual body is.
36:07Regarding these texts from First Corinthians,
36:10There is a passage in the Letter to the Philippians
36:13which is very significant.
36:15Let's go to Philippians 3,
36:17verses 20 and 21.
36:19This text tells us,
36:21We are citizens of heaven,
36:24from where we expect,
36:25as savior,
36:26to the Lord Jesus Christ,
36:27which will transfigure our body
36:31in the image of his glorious body,
36:34by virtue of the power he has to subdue himself
36:37all things.
36:39This text is wonderful
36:40because it speaks to us
36:42of the transformation of the body,
36:46firstly,
36:48to a body like Christ's,
36:50a glorious body like Christ's,
36:53which will give us many instructions right now
36:55of what our body will be like in that resurrection.
36:59And on the other hand,
37:01It tells us about the extraordinary power that Christ has,
37:04who is God himself,
37:05in order to do it.
37:07On the subject of the resurrection,
37:09It would also be appropriate to mention now
37:11a passage from the Letter to the Romans,
37:13in chapter 8,
37:14where it is mentioned
37:16the intervention of the Holy Spirit,
37:18which becomes the guarantee,
37:21in the guarantor of the resurrection
37:23of the believers.
37:25Let's go to this chapter 8,
37:27to verse 11.
37:29And if the Spirit of Him
37:30who resurrected Jesus
37:31from among the dead
37:32dwells within you,
37:34He who raised Christ from the dead
37:36from among the dead
37:37He will also give his life
37:38to their mortal bodies
37:40through His Spirit
37:41that dwells within you.
37:43That is, the Spirit
37:44that already dwells within us
37:46He is the one who will be the cause,
37:49the effect,
37:50It's going to be the element
37:52which will result
37:54that our body
37:55may be resurrected,
37:57finally resurrect
37:59for eternal life.
38:01In 1 Thessalonians,
38:04in chapter 4,
38:05says,
38:06And so we will always be with the Lord.
38:10In this sense
38:12from this phrase
38:13It is clearly scatological,
38:15for being with the Lord
38:16It will happen after his paruching
38:19and of the meeting
38:20of all with Him.
38:22Surely the ultimate destination
38:24of the believers
38:25I was in the center
38:26of Pablo's interests.
38:28Already during the evangelization
38:29in Thessaloniki,
38:31He had already spoken
38:31of the resurrection
38:32of the dead
38:33and of certain hope
38:35and of the next coming
38:37of Christ
38:38that was for Him
38:39already imminent.
38:41Being with the Lord
38:42realize that destination
38:45last of the believer
38:46and can be considered
38:48as the final period,
38:49the culmination
38:50of the salvific work
38:52of God.
38:53To always be
38:54with the Lord
38:55then it has
38:56a personal sense
38:58community.
38:59community,
39:00all,
39:02It's not just one person.
39:06We live in a community
39:07and we will live in community.
39:11There is a meaning
39:12community staff
39:14because it's about
39:15of people
39:16who place their hope
39:18in Christ
39:19and they also have
39:20a future sense
39:22because believers
39:23that form
39:24the current community
39:25we are the ones who are
39:27longing
39:28living together
39:29around the Lord
39:30at the end of our
39:31earthly life.
39:32That is to say,
39:33we are going to live
39:34in the community.
39:35Sometimes people
39:36he asks me,
39:36father,
39:37Are we going to recognize each other?
39:38And we'll be there
39:39all together?
39:41Of course,
39:42I mean,
39:43We're going to recognize each other
39:44and we're going to get to know each other
39:45perfectly.
39:47We'll be there
39:48with people
39:49that we have loved
39:50all together
39:51living in a
39:51wonderful community.
39:53As?
39:54Well, we don't know.
39:55TRUE?
39:56This will have to happen
39:57And then we will know
39:58how is.
39:59Meanwhile,
40:00We're still waiting.
40:01and saying,
40:03Come, Lord Jesus.
40:05It is possible then
40:06say
40:06that the church
40:07It is a community
40:09eschatological
40:10in the sense
40:11strict
40:12how does he live?
40:13face
40:13upon arrival
40:14imminent
40:15of his Lord
40:15for at a given moment
40:17to be taken
40:18definitely
40:18to communion
40:19with Christ,
40:20your Savior.
40:22Now then,
40:23this longing
40:24to be with Christ
40:25that has a
40:25clear dimension
40:26collective
40:27and scatological
40:28in this text
40:30First
40:33of the Testalonicans,
40:34It shows
40:35also the apostle
40:36in later letters,
40:37but with an appearance
40:38staff
40:39and by
40:40happen
40:41immediately
40:42after his death.
40:44What does this mean?
40:46There are two texts
40:47in which it is revealed
40:49this desire
40:49of Paul.
40:50On the one hand,
40:51We have Philippians,
40:52Chapter 1,
40:53verses 21 to 23.
40:55Let's read it.
40:56In this text
40:57says Pablo,
40:58well, for me
40:59Life is Christ
41:00and dying
41:01a profit,
41:03but if living
41:04in the body
41:05It means to me
41:06productive work,
41:07I don't know what to choose,
41:09I feel pressured
41:10at both ends.
41:12On the one hand,
41:12my wish
41:13is to leave
41:13and be with Christ,
41:15which certainly
41:16is,
41:17by far,
41:18the best.
41:19So,
41:19there is a dimension
41:21where he already
41:22wishes to participate
41:23of this being
41:24with Christ eternally.
41:27On the other hand,
41:28the other text
41:28It is 2 Corinthians 5:8.
41:31Let's go to him.
41:32In this text
41:33Paul tells us,
41:34we are then
41:35full of good spirits
41:36and we prefer to go out
41:37of this body
41:38living
41:39with the Lord.
41:41In this text
41:42we see how clearly
41:44Pablo enters
41:45in a dilemma.
41:47Keep working,
41:49that sees that
41:49It is fruitful,
41:50But on the other hand
41:51There is already a large
41:53longing
41:53to participate
41:54eternally
41:55with Christ.
41:57And this is the longing
41:58that must exist
41:59in all of us.
42:00Today I see
42:01that people
42:02because he's afraid
42:03to death,
42:04But this is
42:05because he doesn't reflect
42:06clearly in it,
42:08because he hasn't thought
42:09that death
42:10That's what's going to put it
42:12already in heaven,
42:14that is going to begin
42:15to live life
42:16for which
42:16we went
42:17really intended.
42:19Death
42:20as we have seen
42:22along
42:22of this entire chapter
42:24It's not the end
42:25you are welcome,
42:26but rather
42:26This is the beginning
42:28of the ultimate life,
42:30principle that certainly
42:31goes through a trial,
42:33but that
42:34finally
42:34Well, it will be there already.
42:36intended,
42:39I mean,
42:39as a vocation
42:40to live
42:41eternally
42:42with Christ
42:42in the sky.
42:43Saint Paul
42:46it feels
42:47pulled
42:49at both ends,
42:50I'm staying to work
42:51Or I'm leaving.
42:52He says no.
42:53for me
42:53certainly
42:55go be
42:56already with Christ
42:57It's by far
42:58the best.
42:59However,
43:00well this
43:00It's not a decision
43:01of us,
43:03but it has to be
43:04in our hearts,
43:06it has to permeate
43:07this idea
43:08in our lives
43:08of wishing,
43:10of longing
43:10the sky,
43:13not seeing it
43:13like a thing
43:14ugly,
43:17like something
43:17what we have
43:18why be afraid,
43:20People are simply afraid of him.
43:21to those things
43:22that they are going to bring us
43:23Something's wrong.
43:24for us.
43:26Certainly
43:26There is a certain fear
43:27into the unknown,
43:29but we have
43:29sufficient elements
43:31as we have already seen
43:32to be sure
43:34first
43:35we are going to live
43:37eternally
43:37with Christ,
43:38two,
43:39that life
43:40It will be eternal,
43:42three,
43:42than in heaven
43:43There won't be any more
43:44suffering,
43:45I mean,
43:45really
43:46We have to yearn for it,
43:49We need to think
43:50in it,
43:51life in heaven
43:52It will be wonderful,
43:54have
43:55some indications
43:58of what it will be like
43:59this life.
44:01In chapter 24
44:02Lucas
44:04they were talking
44:06all this,
44:06They are both
44:07who had arrived
44:08already from Maus
44:09when it was presented
44:10Jesus in the middle
44:11of them
44:12and he told them
44:12peace
44:13be with you.
44:16Startled
44:16and scared
44:17they thought they saw
44:18a ghost,
44:20But he told them
44:21Why are they disturbed?
44:23Why do they have doubts?
44:24in his mind
44:25And in his heart?
44:26Look at my hands
44:27and my feet,
44:28It's me,
44:30touch me
44:30and see
44:33that a spirit
44:34It has no meat
44:36nor bones
44:37like you
44:37they can see
44:38that I have.
44:40Having said that
44:40He showed them
44:41hands
44:41and the feet.
44:43Since they didn't finish
44:44to believe it
44:45because of the joy
44:46and they were amazed
44:48he told them
44:48Do they have it here?
44:49Anything to eat?
44:51They offered him
44:52a piece
44:53of fish.
44:55He took it
44:56and ate
44:57in front of them.
44:59We see
44:59in this text
45:00marvelous
45:01some of the
45:02fantastic elements
45:04that are going to happen
45:05in our lives
45:05when we are
45:06resurrected.
45:08On the one hand
45:09we're going to have
45:11body,
45:12bones,
45:13that is to say
45:13our body
45:14as it is now.
45:17Incredibly
45:18well
45:19will not circulate
45:20blood
45:20for them.
45:22What will it be like?
45:23Well
45:23It's mysterious
45:26It is a body
45:27we were saying
45:28a moment ago
45:29spiritual.
45:30On the other hand
45:31we see that
45:32we will be able to
45:33eat
45:33we will be able to
45:35eat
45:36I mean
45:36we will be able to
45:37enjoy
45:38we're going to have
45:40sensitivity
45:40in our hands
45:42we will be able to
45:43tap
45:43in the end
45:44the experiences
45:46that we have today
45:47so limited
45:48because of the capacity
45:49human
45:50will be done
45:50full
45:51perfect
45:52complete
45:53that's why
45:54says Saint Paul
45:55that
45:56not even a glance
45:56saw
45:57nor heard
45:58I'm listening
45:58nor can
45:59come to mind
46:00of man
46:01what God
46:02has prepared
46:03for him
46:03And this is
46:04what us
46:05anima
46:05my brothers
46:06This is
46:07the
46:08the experience
46:09most wonderful
46:10that has to
46:11encourage us
46:11throughout our
46:12life
46:13life
46:13with Christ
46:14life
46:16that in a
46:17given moment
46:17will end
46:18will happen
46:19for a trial
46:20in which
46:21we will not have
46:22about what
46:22worry
46:23Christ
46:24died
46:24for us
46:25death
46:26it will simply be
46:27at a moment
46:28certain
46:29consequence
46:30of our
46:32fragility
46:33but from there
46:34life will come
46:35eternal
46:36careful
46:37with which death
46:38end in death
46:40eternal
46:40which will not be death
46:42but a life
46:43unfortunately
46:45of suffering
46:46far from God
46:47but this
46:48more than a decision
46:50of God
46:50in the end
46:51of our life
46:52It will be a decision
46:53our
46:53a decision
46:54yours
46:55a decision
46:56that you took
46:56during your life
46:57reach heaven
46:59or to hell
47:00It's not a decision
47:02of God
47:03It's a decision
47:04our
47:04God calls us
47:05to heaven
47:06And that's why
47:07we thought about this
47:08and all our life
47:09it is oriented
47:10and heads
47:10at this moment
47:12glorious and triumphant
47:13of our life
47:14that people
47:15calls
47:15death
47:16so
47:17There is nothing to fear
47:19God awaits us
47:20in the sky
47:21Some will see
47:23the coming
47:23of our Lord
47:24Christ
47:25others
47:26we will live it
47:27in a way
47:27different
47:28in our death
47:29we'll see what happens
47:30bye
47:31to our life
47:31at the moment
47:32of our death
47:33and we will be taken
47:34to live eternally
47:35with the
47:36and then
47:37we will resume
47:38our body
47:40So, well
47:41well, all this
47:42in a vision
47:43this
47:44when I say
47:44we will resume
47:45our body
47:46say
47:47What am I saying?
47:48TRUE
47:49I'm talking
47:50as I would say
47:51our lord
47:51of things
47:52that I don't know
47:54And so, my dear ones
47:56siblings
47:56We've arrived!
47:57in the end
47:58of our course
47:59of writings
48:00Paulines
48:01talking
48:02from the experience
48:03most wonderful
48:05that it may have
48:06human beings
48:07go live
48:09eternally
48:10with God
48:11that the Lord
48:12God bless you
48:13I will always keep you safe.
48:13show you his face
48:15and
48:16if we didn't see each other
48:17before
48:18see you
48:20in the sky
48:20Don't leave it
48:22to lose
48:23see you soon
48:24Don't leave it
48:26Don't leave it
48:27Don't leave it
48:31Don't leave it
48:31Don't leave it
48:32Don't leave it
48:33to life
48:34Thanks for watching the video.