4. The Rapture

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (ESV)

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. 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. 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. 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. 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

Main End Time Prophecy Page

Outline

1.0 The Basis of Our Resurrection

2.0 The Rapture

2.1 Personal Return

2.2 The Summons

2.2.1 The Command

2.2.2 Voice of an Archangel 

2.2.3 Trumpet Blast

3.0 The First Resurrection

3.1 Righteous Dead (Dead in Christ)

3.2 Righteous Living (Alive in Christ) 3.3 Death Overcome

4.0 The Importance of this Doctrine

5.0 Scenes in Heaven

5.1 Symbolic of the rapture Revelation 4:1

 5.2 The Throne – Revelation 4

 5.3 The Lamb – Revelation 5

Bibliography

D. Michael Martin, 1, 2 Thessalonians, vol. 33, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1995)

Robert James Utley, Paul’s First Letters: Galatians and I & II Thessalonians, vol. Volume 11, Study Guide Commentary Series (Marshall, TX: Bible Lessons International, 1997)