1 Thessalonians 4:16

The Comfort Of The Lord's Return

¹⁵ For this we declare to you on the Lord's own authority--that we who are alive and continue on earth until the Coming of the Lord, shall certainly not forestall those who shall have previously passed away. ¹⁶ For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud word of command, and with an archangel's voice and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ Afterwards we who are alive and are still on earth will be caught up in their company amid clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

Dead in Christ

Descend from Heaven

In Christ

Sound of the Trumpet

Trumpet of God

With God

Come Down From Heaven

Christ

Jesus

John

Jude

Messiah

Michael

1 Corinthians 15:23

But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.

2 Thessalonians 1:7

and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction now--rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, attended by His mighty angels.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man is soon to come in the glory of the Father with His angels, and then will He requite every man according to his actions.

Acts 1:11

who said, "Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will come in just the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven."

Revelation 1:7

He is coming in the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and so will those who pierced Him; and all the nations of the earth will gaze on Him and mourn. Even so. Amen.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52

I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

2 Thessalonians 2:1

But with respect to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to meet Him, we entreat you, brethren,

Jude 1:9

But Michael the Archangel, when contending with the Devil and arguing with him about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce judgement on him in abusive terms, but simply said, "The Lord rebuke you."

Matthew 24:30-31

Then will appear the Sign of the Son of Man in the sky; and then will all the nations of the earth lament, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with great power and glory.

Matthew 25:31

"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,

Matthew 26:64

"I am He," replied Jesus. "But I tell you that, later on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Omnipotence, and coming on the clouds of the sky."

2 Peter 3:10

The day of the Lord will come like a thief--it will be a day on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up.

Revelation 1:10

In the Spirit I found myself present on the day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a loud voice which resembled the blast of a trumpet.

Revelation 8:13

Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle crying in a loud voice, as it flew across the sky, "Alas, alas, alas, for the inhabitants of the earth, because of the significance of the remaining trumpets which the three angels are about to blow!"

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice speaking from Heaven. It said, "Write as follows: "'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from this time onward. Yes, says the Spirit, let them rest from their sorrowful labours; for what they have done goes with them.'"

Revelation 20:5-6

No one else who was dead rose to Life until the thousand years were at an end. This is the First Resurrection.