I Thessalonians 4:13-18 The Rapture

1 Thessalonians 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

14 For if since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel with archangel voice and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

John 11:43 He cried out shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.”

John 5:28-29 An hour is coming, in which those who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth

John 10:3 The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

John 10:4 The sheep follow him because they know his voice.

27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me"

Revelation 2:17 To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone

Revelation 3:12 I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name

Leviticus 23:24 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation"

Acts 9:3-4 As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?

7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one

Acts 22:9 “And those who were with me saw the light, to be sure, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me"

1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

52 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 will be changed.

Ezekiel 1:20 Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction

John 14:3 “If Since I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also"

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then Then immediately we who are alive and remain will be caught up {raptured} together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

John 10:12 ...and the wolf snatches them and scatters them

John 10:27 I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

2 Timothy 4:8 In the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved will have loved His appearing

1 Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words

1 Timothy 1:10 to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.

1 John 3:2-3 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Revelation 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus