1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 – 13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For 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. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 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. 17 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. 18
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Always looking to get a rapture verse on the screen.
It’s neat to know that we will be meeting our loved ones in the air and other believers at the time of the rapture.
Here are a couple of neat thoughts. We will hear that call on earth right before we are taken up? The dead are going to rise first. It’s the time all believers dead and just raptured from earth get their resurrected bodies. Will we be face to face right next to those we have lost and longed to see?
Obviously my biggest joy will be to see the Lord. These are interesting questions and only time will tell. I happen to believe it won’t be all that long into the future. We definitely need to keep our guard up and hearts receptive so He doesn’t come like a thief in the night to us.