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12 Bible verses about the Rapture KJV
The passages behind the word: the Lord descending with a shout, the dead in Christ rising first, and the living caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air. Christians who hold the same Bible disagree about when this happens in relation to the tribulation, and these verses are set out without settling that.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16 · KJV
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:
1 Thessalonians 4:17 · KJV
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 · KJV
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Corinthians 15:51 · KJV
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:52 · KJV
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.
John 14:3 · KJV
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Titus 2:13 · KJV
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Philippians 3:20-21 · KJV
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 · KJV
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Matthew 24:40-41 · KJV
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Matthew 24:42 · KJV
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
1 John 3:2-3 · KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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