Friday, January 21, 2011

1 Thessalonians 4. The Resurrection

The Lord will raise first those who have slept in the Lord, the righteous.

Those who are alive and righteous at the time of his coming will also be called up to meet Him.

3. We shall be caught up with the Lord and the spirits of the righteous in the air in the clouds.

4. The righteous saints will be there at the time of His coming right at the start, and those who were good but not members and saints will come afterwards.

5. At the Second Coming the righteous saints, prophets, church members who were faithful will be resurrected, and then those who were righteous but did not have the gospel will be resurrected afterwards.

6. It teaches that specifically, first the righteous dead would live again and be caught up, and then those who remain alive would also be caught up to meet with Him.

7. The heathen nations will be redeemed with the righteous, and they WILL survive the second coming. The rebellious and truly wicked, those who rejected the gospel and those found under great condemnation would not be redeemed or survive.

8. The aforementioned wicked dead would not be redeemed until after the end of the Earth itself.

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