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The Resurrection
and the Rapture
RESURECTION:
CAUSING THE DEAD TO LIVE
AGAIN.
Job 19:25-27 (KJV)
For I know that
my redeemer liveth,
and that
he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
{26} And
though after my skin worms destroy this
body,
yet
in my flesh shall I see God:
{27} Whom
I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another;
though my
reins{H=interior organs} be consumed within
me.
Isa 26:19 (KJV)
Thy dead men
shall live,
together with
my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that
dwell in dust:
for thy dew is as
the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall
cast out the dead.
Dan
12:2-3 (KJV)
And many of them that
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
some to everlasting
life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
{3} And they
that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament;
and they that turn many
to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
John 11:23-26 (KJV)
Jesus saith unto her,
Thy brother shall rise again.
{24} Martha
saith unto him,
I know that he shall
rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
{25} Jesus said
unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life:
he that believeth in
me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
{26} And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest thou
this? 1 Cor 15:12-23
(KJV)
Now if Christ be preached
that he rose from the dead,
how say some among you that there
is no resurrection of the dead?
{13} But if there be no
resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
{14} And if Christ be not
risen,
then is our preaching
vain, and your faith is also vain.
{15} Yea, and we are found
false witnesses of God;
because we have testified of God
that he raised up Christ:
whom he raised not up, if so be
that the dead rise not.
{16} For if the dead rise
not, then is not Christ raised:
{17} And if Christ be not
raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
{18} Then they also which
are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
{19} If in this life only
we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
{20} But now is Christ
risen from the dead,
and become the
firstfruits of them that slept.
{21} For since by man
came death,
by man came also the
resurrection of the dead.
{22} For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
{23} But every man in his
own order:
Christ the firstfruits; afterward
they that are Christ's at his coming.
Ezek 37:1-10 (KJV)
The hand of the LORD
was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD,
and set me down in the
midst of the valley which was full of bones,
{2} And caused
me to pass by them round about:
and, behold, there
were very many in the open valley;
and, lo, they were
very dry.
{3} And he said
unto me, Son of man, can these bones live?
And I answered, O
Lord GOD, thou knowest.
{4} Again he
said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto
them,
O ye dry bones,
hear the word of the LORD.
{5} Thus saith
the Lord GOD unto these bones;
Behold, I will cause
breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
{6} And I will
lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you,
and cover you with
skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live;
and ye shall know that
I am the LORD.
{7} So I
prophesied as I was commanded:
and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold a shaking,
and the bones
came together, bone to his bone.
{8} And when I
beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them,
and the skin covered
them above:
but there was no
breath in them.
{9} Then
said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind{H=spirit},
prophesy, son of man,
and say to the
wind{H=spirit}, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Come from the four
winds{H=spirits}, O breath{H=spirit},
and breathe{H=spirit}
upon these slain, that they may live.
{10} So I
prophesied as he commanded me,
and the
breath{{H=spirit} came into them,
and they lived, and
stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
(1 Cor
15:40-50 KJV)
There are also celestial bodies,
and bodies terrestrial:
but the glory of the celestial is
one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
{41} There is one glory of
the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars:
for one star differeth from
another star in glory.
{42} So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption; it is
raised in incorruption:
{43} It is sown in dishonour; it
is raised in glory:
it is sown in weakness; it is
raised in power:
{44} It is sown a natural body; it
is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there
is a spiritual body.
{45} And so it is written, The
first man Adam was made a living soul;
the last Adam was made a
quickening spirit.
{46} Howbeit that was not
first which is spiritual, but that which is natural;
and afterward that which is
spiritual.
{47} The first man is of the
earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
{48} As is the earthy, such are
they also that are earthy:
and as is the heavenly, such are
they also that are heavenly.
{49} And as we have borne the
image of the earthy,
we shall also bear the image
of the heavenly.
{50} Now this I say,
brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption.
THE RAPTURE:
THE EVENT IN WHICH CHRIST WILL RESURRECT THE DEAD
BELIEVERS, PLUS CATCH AWAY THE LIVING BELIEVERS TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER.
(1 Cor
15:51-58 KJV)
{51} Behold, I show you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep{G=be
resting in deathRESURRECTION}, but we shall all be
changed,
{52} In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
{53} For this corruptible must put
on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on
immortality.
{54} So when this
corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
and this mortal shall have put on
immortality,
then shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in
victory.
{55} O death, where is thy
sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
{56} The sting of death is
sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
{57} But thanks be to God, which
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
{58} Therefore, my beloved
brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work
of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your
labour is not in vain in the Lord.
(Gen 5:24
KJV)
And Enoch walked with God:
and he was not;
for God took him{H=seized him
and carried him away}.
(1 Th 4:13-18
KJV)
But I would not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep,
that ye sorrow not, even as
others which have no hope.
{14} For if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in
Jesus will God bring with him.
{15} For this we say unto you by
the word of the Lord,
that we which are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord
shall not prevent them which are
asleep.
{16} For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall
rise first:
{17} Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the
Lord.
{18} Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.
(1 Th 5:1-11
KJV)
But of the times and the seasons,
brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
{2} For yourselves know
perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the
night.
{3} For when they shall say,
Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;
and they shall not
escape.
{4} But ye, brethren, are
not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a
thief.
{5} Ye are all the children
of light, and the children of the day:
we are not of the night, nor
of darkness.
{6} Therefore let us not sleep, as
do others; but let us watch and be sober.
{7} For they that sleep
sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
{8} But let us, who are of the
day, be sober,
putting on the breastplate
of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
{9} For God hath not appointed us
to wrath,
but to obtain salvation by
our Lord Jesus Christ,
{10} Who died for us, that,
whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with
him.
{11} Wherefore comfort
yourselves together,
and edify one another, even as
also ye do.
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