Those of our people who have died will live again! Their bodies will come back to life. All those sleeping in their graves will wake up and sing for joy. As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth, so the LORD will revive those who have long been dead.

If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.

Now, since our message is that Christ has been raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?

and if Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe.

For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.

It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.

But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.

For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ.

The scripture says, "I spoke because I believed." In the same spirit of faith we also speak because we believe.

We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus to life, will also raise us up with Jesus and take us, together with you, into his presence.

I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I have authority over death and the world of the dead.

Our friends, we want you to know the truth about those who have died, so that you will not be sad, as are those who have no hope.

In this way he will strengthen you, and you will be perfect and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all who belong to him.

It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Happy are those who from now on die in the service of the Lord!" "Yes indeed!" answers the Spirit. "They will enjoy rest from their hard work, because the results of their service go with them."

then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

"Gad will be attacked by a band of robbers, But he will turn and pursue them.

A terrible disease will also fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, and the donkeys---on all the animals in the camps of the enemy.

The great trumpet will sound, and he will send out his angels to the four corners of the earth, and they will gather his chosen people from one end of the world to the other.

But each one will be raised in proper order: Christ, first of all; then, at the time of his coming, those who belong to him.

We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven.

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to be with him: I beg you, my friends,

It was Enoch, the seventh direct descendant from Adam, who long ago prophesied this about them: "The Lord will come with many thousands of his holy angels

to bring judgment on all, to condemn them all for the godless deeds they have performed and for all the terrible words that godless sinners have spoken against him!"