Monday, January 7, 2019

Trumpet And Rapture

Behold! I tell 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 trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV)

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NASB)

Sequence of events, according to 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17:
  1. The trumpet will sound;
  2. The Lord will descend;
  3. We shall all be changed;
  4. The dead in Christ will rise first;
  5. Those alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds;
  6. All will meet the Lord in the air and shall always be with Him;
  7. This will happened in the twinkling of an eye.
If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also. (John 14:3 CSB)

"Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (Acts 1:11 NIV)

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