After death, do souls wait for the Second Coming to receive their glorified bodies?
Robert Sungenis answers yes: at death the soul goes immediately after judgment to heaven, purgatory or hell, and exists consciously without the body, as the souls in Apocalypse 20:4 live and reign with Christ. He holds that at the Second Coming the dead are raised and the Christians' bodies glorified and reunited with their souls, with no secret rapture beforehand.
A viewer asks whether, after the soul leaves the body, souls wait like Christmas for the Second Coming and then receive their glorified bodies.
Answer
Yes. A human being is body and spirit, and the spirit is sometimes called the soul. When you die, your body goes to the grave and, after the particular judgment, your soul goes immediately to purgatory, heaven or hell. The souls in heaven have a real, conscious existence, as Apocalypse 20:4 shows John seeing the souls of the beheaded who lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years, that symbolic thousand years being the time from Christ's first coming to his second. They simply do not yet have their bodies. When Jesus comes back, he first raises the dead, both Christian and non-Christian; the Christians' bodies are glorified in an instant and reunited with their souls, and then those still living are raptured up into the air, all of it happening in the air, at the Second Coming, not in a secret rapture beforehand.