The Lord Himself will descend from heaven'''

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Part 1
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The Rapture
1 Thess 416-17
Heaven
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,
Church
then we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air,
Earth
and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
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The Rapture
2 Distinct Groups
1 Thess 416-17
John 1125-26
Those who previously died in the faith
The dead will be raised imperishable
The believers who have died
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Dead in Christ
Those alive when the Rapture occurs
Those who are alive and remain
Those who believe and are alive
We (those alive) will be changed
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1 Cor. 1551-52 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.
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