The Dispensationalist just assumes that since the saints meet Jesus in the air, then that means they all turn around and go back to heaven. But 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 doesn’t say that, and there is no passage in Scripture that does. They simply assume it. But what’s happening in that passage is the illustration of a king returning to His kingdom, victorious in battle, and His loyal subjects going out to greet Him as He returns. They all then celebrate His coming, and return with Him into the city. They don’t then all leave to go somewhere else. The same imagery is used in Jesus’s procession into Jerusalem the week before His crucifixion. To miss the classical imagery is to misunderstand the flow of events.
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