Hi Kevin,

The 'key-words' about the dead are: "in Christ". We will just have to leave it to the Lord as to how He sorts out "the dead in Christ". He is the judge of both 'the living' and 'the dead'.

However, He does tell us how He is going to handle the 'living' lukewarm Laodiceans at the time of the rapture.

YBIC, Bruce Warner