Those of us who have repented of our sins and have asked Jesus to forgive us and to be our Lord, will not be forgotten. He is coming for us. The souls of those who sleep, or who have died believing in Christ Jesus are already with him.
2Cor 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Joh 14:1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Joh 14:2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Joh 14:4 And you know the way to where I am going.”
Joh 14:5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus will return in the air to call up his church, those who belong to him. This is called the Rapture of the Church. The Church will be caught up to be with him. The word "caught up"in Greek is harpazo and in Latin the word is rapturo, and from this word comes rapture. The rapture of the church. The name "rapture" is not found in the Bible, but the event is described in two places.
1Co 15:50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1Co 15:51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
The Rapture is described again; It is called the pre-tribulation Rapture. It is thought to come before the final events of wrath on the world.
1Th 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
At the Rapture Jesus will be gathering the souls who were then dead and those who were alive and trusting in him. He gathers the souls and spirits of those who have died and they are given spiritual bodies as he is. I do not know how this is done, but he is coming for those who trust in him and who have been forgiven of their sins. No one of his will be left behind. He could come at any time. This will be a grand reunion of those who have died in Christ Jesus.
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