And the Lord himself will come down. The signal for all this will be the archangel's shout of command, and the sound of God's trumpet blowing a blast. The Thessalonians must have believed the living Christians would rush to meet Jesus, but the dead would be unable to follow, and so would be left behind forever. Will rise to life first. Not "first before the other dead are raised," but "first - before the living are caught up." Compare Revelation 1:7.

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