Death's Sleep.

Joh_5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

1Co 15:13  But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 

1Co 15:14  And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 

Joh_11:24  Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

1Th 4:16  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: 

1Th 4:17  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. 

1Th 4:18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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The dead in Christ will rise first- comfort one another with these words.

How can we comfort one another with these words if we live under the deception that the dead are already risen in Christ before He descends from heaven with a shout?

When Christ returns-  will He find any that believe His truth?

Luk 18:7  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 

Luk 18:8  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? 

Christ has NO reason to return to earth if the dead in Him are already risen.

There IS a resurrection but it is NOT until our Savior returns for us!

The DEAD IN CHRIST will rise.

Who are the DEAD IN CHRIST that need rising if everyone believes they are already risen? Who are they?!  Seriously, who are the DEAD IN CHRIST that need to be raised up to MEET Christ in the air? Haven't the dead already risen and met Christ? So many believe that they have, that they do, but they are under one of Satan's greatest deceptions ever to be made. 

People think I’m crazy when I tell them I don't believe our loved ones go to heaven or hell when they die. I don't think our loved ones are meeting each other in heaven after death. I believe that death is a SLEEP. I believe this because my Bible tells me this. Christ will return and the DEAD IN CHRIST will rise from their graves and meet Him in the air, that's what my Bible tells me! Christ calls death a sleep-

Joh 11:11  These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 

Joh 11:12  Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 

Joh 11:13  Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 

Joh 11:14  Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 

If everyone who has loved God died and went right to heaven, what need is there of Christ to return and have the dead in Him rise? There isn't any reason and it's completely contradictory.

Our breath of life goes back to God who gives it to us, but we go to sleep and if we go to sleep in Christ the next thing we know upon waking is rising from our graves to meet our Savior in the air!

That last trump is going to sound, but truly will Christ find faith on earth? So few will believe in the truth, more will believe the deception and they will be caught up among the many not the few. They will be caught up among those who will cry out to Christ that they've done many wonderful things in His name and He is going to tell them to depart from Him, they are workers of iniquity. They don't believe they are, but they are DECEIVED by the great deceiver.

May we believe only in the truth of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST now and forever!