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I've seen to confuse and conflate this stuff before Jerry. It's gotten very old.Let's look at the content found in John's epistle about what will happen when the Lord Jesus appears:
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 Jn.3:2).
Those who received John's epistles were taught that when the Lord appears they will see Him--"when he shall appear...we shall see him as he is."
They were also taught that "when he shall appear... we shall be like him."
So John was telling them that when the Lord Jesus appears living saints will put on bodies just like the Lord Jesus' glorious body. What will happen then was a mystery truth which will only happen to those in the Body of Christ:
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor.15:51-52).
You are confused because you haven't yet learned to rightly divide between "prophecy" and "mystery."
When the LORD returns to establish His kingdom, John is ONE of the TWELVE apostles that will sit on TWELVE thrones judging the TWELVE tribes of ISRAEL.
Paul is NOT. Paul was given the revelation of the ONE BODY that is made up of NEITHER Jew NOR Greek.
It appears that you will NEVER understand these simple and incontrovertible facts.
The fact that ALL BELIEVERS in BOTH of these groups will be resurrected does NOT make them identical.