Dear Doves,

 

On the Day of our rapture the FIRST sounding of the trumpet of God will raise/resurrect the dead in Christ FIRST:

 

1 Corinthians 15:51-52

"For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptable......"

1 Thessalonians 4:16

"....and with the trump of God, And the dead in Christ will rise first...."

 

 

Then soon after that event is complete, On the Day of our rapture,  the LAST sounding of the trumpet of God will change/glorify us who are not dead:

 

1 Corinthians 15:51

"We shall not all SLEEP, but we shall ALL be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMP.

1 Corinthians 15:53

"For this corruptable must put on incorruption ( ie. the dead in Christ), and this mortal must put on immortality ( ie. the living in Christ)."

 

 

Therefore, on the Day of our rapture there are two trumpet soundings: the FIRST SOUNDING of the trumpet will raise/resurrect the dead in Christ FIRST, and then soon after that event is completed, at the LAST SOUNDING of the trumpet we who are alive will be changed/glorified. Then BOTH the  resurrected dead and the glorified living will be caught up/raptured together to meet the Lord in the air.

 

There is but ONE rapture of His Church/bride with two separate trumpet soundings ,which accomplish two different tasks ,on the same Day of our rapture. The first trumpet raises the dead, and the last trumpet changes (ie. glorifies) the living just before we are then caught up together to meet the Lord in the air.

 

Many people confuse the "last trumpet" on the Day of our rapture  with the seventh and last trumpet judgement in Revelation 11:15. His Church/bride will be safely tucked away in heaven when the seventh and last trumpet judgement is sounded. These are entirely two different 'last trumpets' on two entirely different days.

 

 

According to Your Word, come Lord Jesus!

 

Bruce Warner