For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. (For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep; for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the] air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17
Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live. John 5:25
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1 John 3:2, John 5:25Hearts awaking, Saviour, greet Thee;
1 Thessalonians 4:14, Daniel 12:2Sleeping saints arising meet Thee;
1 Thessalonians 4:17, John 5:28Rising in enraptured love
Colossians 3:4, John 5:28To Thy rally from above.
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Jude 1:14, John 5:25Myriads, myriads, raised and living,
Revelation 5:9,10, John 11:25Blessèd adoration giving
Revelation 5:9,10, 1 Thessalonians 4:16To Thyself, whose mighty tone
John 5:28,29, 1 Thessalonians 4:16Rends the tomb to claim Thine own.
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1 Corinthians 15:53, 2 Corinthians 5:4Raised and changed together thronging,
1 Corinthians 15:45,53,54, John 5:25Quickened hosts to God belonging,
Revelation 5:9, Psalms 150:2Fill with song the radiant air,
Romans 8:19, Luke 20:36Sons of God, divinely fair.
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1 Corinthians 15:3-8, Revelation 1:18Thou didst die, but O Thy rising -
Revelation 5:8-14, Luke 24:11Angel hosts and men surprising -
1 Corinthians 15:54, 1 Corinthians 15:23Brings to God a glorious spoil,
Revelation 5:8-14, 1 Corinthians 15:23Hosts unnumbered for Thy toil!