God sends Jesus for His Mature Body.

When Jesus Christ ascended to the Father`s right hand He was placed far above all, and made Head of the Body.

`God the Father....gave Him to be head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.` (Eph. 1: 23)

Jesus Christ, Head of the Body.

Christ then sends His Holy Spirit to impart His divine nature within them. (2 Peter 1: 2 - 4) Over time the Lord builds and matures His Body till finally by the Holy Spirit it is brought to the unity of the faith, a perfect (mature) man.

` ...till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.`  (Eph. 4: 13)

This then is the appointed time for God to send Jesus to connect with His body and together go to the 3^rd heaven.

`God...may send Jesus Christ...whom heaven must receive until the restoration of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.` (Acts 3: 20 & 21)

The Mature Body of Christ caught up.

The first realm of God`s rulership to be restored, is in the third heaven, the angelic realm where Lucifer was cast out. There has been no visible rulership since then. God the Father has appointed His Son to be the Kingpriest, the visible supreme ruler in that realm.

Thus we see that God the Father sends Jesus with those of the Body who had previously died. He descends to the clouds and then draws the completed, mature Body of Christ to Himself.

`God will bring with Him, (Jesus) those who sleep in Jesus.....the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.` (1 Thess. 4: 14 - 17)

The word `meet,` Gk. `apantesis,` is used in connection to escorting a person to their destination.

Thus the completed Body of Christ goes with the Lord Jesus Christ to the third heaven where He will be coroneted as supreme ruler in all of God`s great kingdom, the first visible rulership to be restored in all of God`s great kingdom.