The Dead In Christ Will Rise First
But we do not want you to be uninformed,
brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as
others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For
this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are
left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have
died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command,
with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend
from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who
are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord
in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
When someone we love dies, grief can be messy.
Will we see them in heaven? The reality of death is different for a family not in
Christ, than it is for a family in
Christ. We can comfort one another with the hope of resurrection and a future
reunion. Because Christ lives, death is not a tragedy but triumph.
Because Christ lives,
death is not tragedy but
triumph.
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