1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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:”
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first — the parousia is depicted in vivid, eschatological imagery: the Lord descends with cosmic proclamation (phōnē, voice; salpinx, trumpet). The 'dead in Christ' (hoi nekroi en Christō) rise first, ensuring their precedence. The resurrection-order matters.
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