Who will be raptured?
1 Thessalonians 4:15 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. 17
Then 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.
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed.
Numbers 14:29-31 Your corpses will fall in this wilderness, all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward. You shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb and Joshua . Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.
2 Samuel 12:23 “But now he has died; Can I bring him back again? He will not return to me, but I will go to him.”
Matthew 18:3 “Truly I say to you, unless you are
converted repent and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of
heaven.
5 “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me"
10 “Their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven"
Mark 10:14 “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."
16 And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.
1 John 3:4 Sin is the trangression of the law
James 4:17 To one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Romans 5:13 Sin is not imputed when there is no law
Ezekiel 18:4 The soul who sins will die.
Genesis 1:24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth
living creatures souls after their kind: cattle and creeping
moving things and beasts of the earth after their kind”
Isaiah 11:6 the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat.
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little boy will lead them.
Romans 8:19-22 The anxious longing of the creation waits
eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to
futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
with the certainty that the creation itself also will be set free from its
slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For
we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth
together
Genesis 7:15 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life
Genesis 9:9-10 “Now behold, I Myself do establish My
covenant with you, with your descendants after you; and with every living
creature soul, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth
Psalm 104:21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God
27 They all wait for You to give them their food in due season.
29-30 You take away their spirit breath. They expire
and return to their dust. You send forth Your Spirit, they are created
restored
Numbers 22:27 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord , she lay down under Balaam; so Balaam was angry and struck the donkey with his stick. 28 And the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” 29 Then Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now.” 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man has regard for the life
soul of his animal
Matthew 10:29-31 “Are not two sparrows little birds
sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your
Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you
are more valuable than many sparrows little birds”
Psalm 102:7 I lie awake. I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop
Revelation 15:3 “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty;
Righteous and true are Your ways"