posted on Apr, 18 2011 @ 12:04 PM
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have not hope. We believe that Jesus
died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s own word, we tell
you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the LORD
himself will come down from heaven, with a LOUD command, with the VOICE of the archangel and with the TRUMPET call of God, and the dead in Christ will
rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we
will be with the Lord forever."
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. FOR
THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and
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