"The dead in Christ will rise first," 1 Thessalonians 4:16.
Wonder what happens to believers in Christ who died? besides bodies in graves? Do they have consciousness? Can they look down on us (a favorite expression among the living about the dead)? Or, is it when you're dead, you're dead all over? Well, who knows? (God does, of course!) Seems anybody who's been dead 20 minutes and comes back is considered expert witness for the millennia dead who never made it back. Dismissive of our question, Scripture affirms the dead in Christ will be brought back to life before anybody else, but not until the archangel yells the command. They, made alive, no longer dead, resurrected, join Jesus coming in clouds. After this, all believers in Christ, who had not yet died, will be ripped away to join the resurrected living in the sky. And, from that moment, all the believers, countless, together, will be with the Lord for always. That's what it says. Believe it or not.
As we wonder at God's powerful might to raise the dead and transform the living, we marvel. Speak with a brother or sister today humbly grateful together in God's mighty love.
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