⚜️EVERLASTING LIFE⚜️ I was listening to this preacher quoting John 3:16 and saying that this everlasting life is not talking about something that is off in the future, but everlasting life is a present-tense reality. Here is the deal: it is not a present-tense reality, but it is a future tense. First, we are still currently subject to death and perishing. We don't have that gift of everlasting life at the moment. That is obvious. We are still mortal, we are not like Christ at this present-tense. In the future, when the Messiah returns and establishes the Messianic Kingdom on earth for a thousand years, then we will be given the gift of everlasting life at the resurrection. It is during this time that we will receive our immortal bodies (immortality). John 3:16 is telling the believer that he or she has the promise of that everlasting life now, but the actual experience is reserved for the Messianic Age.