Donna,

Again, thank you very much for taking the time to read and respond to the things that I have written.

btw - even though the seventh of the letters to the 7 churches was written to an actual church in John's day,

and that things in that letter were explicitly for them, I also believe that the seventh letter,

which was to the church of the Laodiceans, also pictures for us, Christianity at the end of the church age.

Then also, following that, when John was immediately in the spirit, beholding the throne in heaven,

that it was John who experienced it, not by resurrection, but none the less in the spirit,

that this, also, is a picture for the believers, of what we anticipate at the end of the church age.

Whereas John 14:1-3, I Corinthians 15:51-52, I Thessalonians 4:15-17, and Titus 2:13 are explicit references, rather than pictures.