I Thessalonians 4:16-17

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

1.      The Lord will come again

2.      4: 14 The Lord will bring with Him all the elect who have died.

 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

3.      There will be a resurrection of the bodies of the elect who have died.

4.      The elect who are alive at Christ's coming will be given a new and glorified body.

5.      These two companies, the dead and those who are alive at Christ’s coming will become one body.

6.      This resurrected life is an everlasting one of living with Christ.

7.      This is a message intended to encourage God’s people.

These things we know and believe. There are other plain truths that may be added, such as judgment, a renewal of some sort of the earth, and at some point rewards for faithful service.

But the events preceding the Lord’s return and the employ and content of heaven are not plain. I must admit of those matters such as a tribulation for the church of seven years or less, and an earthly Millennium, the destruction of Jerusalem, and a battle of Armageddon, I do not know of these matters of revelation. I’m still at 4:17.