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8. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 8 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NKJV) 13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

9. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 9 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NKJV) 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

10. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 10 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NKJV) 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

11. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 11 Luke 17:32-36 (NKJV) 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.“ cf - (Mat 24:37-44)

12. W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 12 Luke 17:26-30 (NKJV) 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Don McClain

13. W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 13 Luke 17:26-30 (NKJV) 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. apokalyptō – as in 2 Thes 1:7 Cf. Mat. 24:37 - Uses Parousia – as in 1 Thes 4:15 apokalyptō – as in 2 Thes 1:7 Cf. Mat. 24:37 - Uses Parousia – as in 1 Thes 4:15 Don McClain

14. W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 14 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 (NKJV) 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed-- 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

15. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 15 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 (NKJV) 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." 55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"

16. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 16 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 (NKJV) 1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

17. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 17 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 (NKJV) 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.

18. Don McClain W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007 18 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 (NKJV) 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

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20.  With noise – shout, voice of the archangel & the trumpet of God - 1 Thess. 4:16  With His holy angels - Matt. 25:31; 2 Thess. 1:7-8  Suddenly and unexpected - 1 Thess. 5:1-4; 2 Pet. 3:10; Rev. 22:20  Visibly - Acts 1:9-11; Rev. 1:7 “and every eye will see Him” - Don McClain 20 W. 65th St church of Christ / October 21, 2007

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