THE RAPTURE
“According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive,
who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede
those who have fallen asleep (died). For the Lord Himself will come
down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ
will rise first. After that, we who are alive and are left will be caught
up (harpagesometha) together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore
encourage one another with these words.” I Thess. 4: 15-18