I have limited space, I will concentrate on those passages he cites in support of two prominent themes—the rapture and the intermediate state.2 As support for the rapture, Feinberg cites the classic text in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, which says that after the dead in Christ are raised at his coming, those who are alive “will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thess 4:17). In this passage