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184 JESUS IS COMING.
"Our conversation (&) Is in heaven; from
whence also we look for the Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ." Ph. 3:20.
"Waiting for the adoption, to- wit, the
redemption of our body." Rom. 8:23.
"Waiting for the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 1:7.
"Looking for that blessed hope."
Ti. 2:13.
"The patient waiting for Christ."
2 Th. 3:5.
"To wait for His Son from heaven,
whom He raised from the dead, even
Jesus." 1 Th. 1:10.
THE RAPTURE.
"The Lord Himself shall descend
THE COMING (d)
from heaven with a shout, (e) with the
of the LORD voice of the archangel and with the trump
as the Bride- of God." (/) 1 Th. 4:16.
groom, into "At the last trump (0; for the trumpet
the Air, for His shall sound." 1 Cor. 15:52.
"Them also which sleep in Jesus will
Church, (c)
God bring with him." (0) 1 Th. 4:14.
The Dead in "The dead in Christ shall rise
Christ raised. first" 1 Th. 4:16.
"In Christ shall all be made alive. . . .
They that are Christ's at His coming."
1 Cor. 15:22, 23.
"The dead shall be raised incorrupti-
ble." 1 Cor. 15:52.
"Raised in incorruption; . . . raised in
glory; . . . raised in power; . . . raised
a spiritual body." 1 Cor. 15:42-44.
(b) Or "Citizenship." see Jno. (f) The trumpet sounded twice
17:16; Ep. 2:19; He. 11:10, when the Lord descended
13, 16; 12:22. upon Sinai, see Ex. 19:11,
(c) "Watch, therefore; for ye 17. And so when He de-
know not what hour your scends to take the church
Lord doth come." Mk. 13: unto Himself, at its first
32, 37; 1 Th. 5:6. sounding the dead In
(d) That is, personally, yet Christ will be raised, and
seen by none but believers; at its last sounding, the liv-
4,
vide Jno. 14:19; Acts 1:3, ing saints will be changed.
9; 9:7; 10:40, 41; 1 Co. 15: (g) The Old Testament saints
5-8.
also will doubtless at this
<e) Understood by those only to time
whom see receive their glorified
addressed;
Jno.
bodies, see Heb. 11:39, 40.
12:28, 29; Ac. 9:4. 7.