The Dead Will Rise.

When the trumpet sounds… what trumpet? The LAST trump. The last call sounded. When that last trumpet sounds God is sending His angels to gather together all of us who belong to Him. The dead that are His will be gathered together to Him. There will be a shout, the trump of God will sound loud, and the dead will be raised!  This is BIBLICAL! This isn't some movie script being written for some fictional tale meant to entertain for a few hours at best. This is TRUTH from God's word! The dead will be raised, but not as zombies. The dead will be raised and in a single moment they will brought up to life incorruptible, changed. No longer will they be dead, but risen to new life! This new life given to them will be incorruptible.

 

The same word of God that predicted world kingdoms rising and falling hundreds of years before they took place, the same word that foretold of the coming of the Messiah to save His people, the same word that tells us that God is longsuffering-this same word tells us that the DEAD in Christ will rise!

 

The DEAD will rise. 

 

Now let me ask you a little question that might be a bit pertinent. If you believe you live on in heaven right after you die, or that your dead loved ones are in heaven right now then what dead will rise when Christ returns? If the dead are already risen- in heaven living their lives- what dead are brought to life and changed to incorruptible at the sound of the last trumpet? What dead are hearing the voice of Christ? Seriously, ASK yourself these questions! A great deception has overcome nearly the entire world in one form or another and the deception concerns the state of the dead.

 

You can't believe the newly dead has gone on to the bright light and passed through the pearly gates of heaven to join all their previously passed loved ones, and also believe they will be called to rise from the dead when Christ sounds the last trump. You can't have it both ways. There is absolutely no need for the dead to be called to rise from their graves to meet the Lord in the air if they are already there with Him, no need at all! Something isn't fitting quite right here, is it? Something isn't true. The dead can't be living, if they are dead, not until they are called to life by Christ when He returns. Yet millions and millions and millions of people believe the dead are not dead but transitioned to a different life. They didn't die, they moved on. They didn't die, they just jumped out of a flesh body to another body, a spiritual one. They didn't die, not really. They are alive, and we console ourselves over and over again with that belief. What are we told to comfort ourselves with? The fact that the Lord will descend from heaven…and the DEAD in CHRIST will rise!  We are not told to comfort ourselves by believing the dead are still living.

 

God help us shake off the insidious deceptions of Satan before it is too late! We need ONLY the truth of GOD. If we holdfast to a single deception, a single cherished tradition over the truth, we are letting ourselves be deceived into following Satan, all the while thinking we are following Christ.

 

Please, Lord, help us not to be deceived! We don't want to be blind followers of the blind- led to destruction! We don't want to hear You tell us You don't know us! We want to KNOW YOU, the real YOU! We don't want to be fooled by Satan who has set himself up as you to so many people. Save us, Lord! Keep us from Evil, Father in Heaven! Help our UNBELIEF! We would be YOURS right now and forever!!!!!!!

 

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. 

 

1Co 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 

1Co 15:52  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. 

1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 

1Co 15:54  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. 

1Co 15:55  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 

1Co 15:56  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 

1Co 15:57  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

1Co 15:58  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. 

 

Mat 24:30  And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 

Mat 24:31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 

 

Joh 5:25  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 

 

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