Now, if indeed the 'dead in Christ' rise first, meaning, the graves give up their dead, it is a literal, physical thing...meaning on a molecular level, the essence of what was knit together to make a person physically whole, would be 'revived' or 'reactivated' or somehow 'knit back together'...right? Wouldn't that mean, that all those decayed bodies of eons past, who died 'in Christ', would somehow 'reconnect'. Those who died in fires, lost at sea, rotted into the earth. NOTHING is ever really destroyed, just 'changed', right? If all those elements are reassembled, there would HAVE to be a major destruction of things that hold elements of the past people. Am I making sense? I mean, way back when, a person died, and was buried in a wooden box, right? They decayed...their body actually 'fed' the soil, which animals ate, trees/grass/vegetation grew from...all those particles, down to the atom made up the 'person's' body, right? If we are truly talking about a resurrection of a physical body, then we HAVE to look at the result of bringing all those scattered 'pieces' back together. Major destruction, on a global scale. Right?

Or, if it is not a 'physical' reanimation, what is it? And how then would those who are not 'whole' at the time of their death 'reanimated'? Someone would have to be just a few minutes 'dead' to come alive again, 'whole', since the body starts breaking down within a very short time after death. I may be over thinking this, and being a tad morbid (my husband is the coroner, sorry)....but if we are actually looking at generations of past Christians experiencing a true and real 'reanimation' of their former corporeal body, then we have to think about how that would affect other life and even inanimate objects (like flora & fauna) on and in the earth. Yeah, I'd think that would cause some major 'sudden destruction'.

Thoughts?

Blessings~

Suzi