The promise of "that blessed hope" given so long ago is still
unfulfilled; the prayer He prayed is not yet answered. Some say that
when our Lord said "I will come again and receive you unto myself" He
meant the death of the believer. This is positively wrong. When the
believer dies the Lord does not come to the individual believer, but
the believer goes to be with the Lord. "Absent from the body present
with the Lord." When the believer dies his body is put into the
ground, while the disembodied part goes straight into His presence.
But the body is also redeemed and must be fashioned like unto His
glorious body. The disciples died and generations upon generations of
believers passed away and the promise is still unfulfilled and His
prayer not yet answered.