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Colossians 3:4
4 When [hotan] Christ, [Christos] who is our [hemon] life, [zoe] shall appear, [phaneroo] then [tote] shall [phaneroo] ye [humeis] also [kai] appear [phaneroo] with [sun] him [autos] in [en] glory. [doxa] KJV-Interlinear
4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. NASB
This is a transformation verse. When Christ is revealed, occurs within us by the transformation of our minds within our spiritual growth, as we ascend toward spiritual maturity.
And likewise, as Christ is hidden in heaven since the day of His ascension, so too our glory is hidden within our soul, and will be revealed, or extended to the members of our physical body, when our resurrection occurs.
Likewise, all truth and life is hidden within the principles and instruction of Bible doctrine. No unbeliever, no out of fellowship believer, can discover the hidden truths of Bible doctrine.
Christy will be revealed to the world in two phases.
First, He sits at the right hand of the Father, waiting until the numbers of believers from our current dispensation, are fulfilled, as well as waiting for the nations (peoples, countries, attitudes, etc.) to be assembled and arrayed for the termination of our dispensation. When that moment occurs, then the Rapture will occur.
Recall our study at the beginning of Revelation. Jesus Christ is at the lever of human history. His hand on the lever, and arm flexed with bulging muscles (symbolic for immediate readiness), ready to throw the lever of history into the very next phase. That phase being the Rapture.
When the Rapture occurs, then we (believers of our dispensation) will all be raised in resurrection and transformed into resurrection bodies.
1 Thess. 4:16
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. NASB
Therefore, just as our minds are transformed in our spiritual growth to maturity, so too, then our bodies will be transformed into resurrection bodies, adding yet another component toward our ultimate completion.
And with Christ, with the culmination of our individual evaluation at the Judgment Seat of Christ, we (mature believers), will be completed into our glory, along with Christ.
And second, at the end of the Tribulation (which is a seven year period following the Rapture), then Christ will be revealed once again, but this time to the entire world at the Second Advent. We who were Raptured, will return along with Him, in His glory, and we, dressed in our glory (resurrection bodies) and numbering in vast numbers (clouds, because there will be so many of us) will appear to the world along with Him at His Second Advent.
The magnitude of your blessing and glory, is directly related to the degree of your advancement to spiritual maturity. You have an opportunity now, in this life, to maximize your future. Or you can simply ignore it all.
