Bible Verses Related to the Resurrection and Rapture (Typological and Direct) (KJV)
John 11:25-26 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
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Old Testament Foreshadows (Typological)
Genesis 5:24 - "for God took him."
But the emphatic and seemingly needless repetition...
2 Kings 2:11 - "and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven."
Job 19:25-26 - 25 "he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:" 26 "Yet in my flesh shall I see God:"
It is a story of Gentile life in the time...
Jude 1:9 - "he disputed about the body of Moses"
But from the brief saying of Scripture...
Isaiah 26:19 - "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise."
Daniel 12:2 - "many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,"
Psalm 16:10 - "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." (fulfilled in Jesus's resurrection - Acts 2:27)
Jesus's Own Resurrection (Foundation of all future resurrection)
Jesus foretold His resurrection:
Matthew 16:21 - "and be killed, and be raised again the third day."
John 2:19 - "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
On the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead
Gospel witness:
Apostolic preaching of the resurrection:
Believers' Resurrection (Future bodily resurrection)
Resurrection and the Rapture ("caught up") - Direct passages
John 11:25-26 - 25 "he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:" 26 "and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - 16 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: 17 then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 - 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump*: for the trumpet* shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
John 14:3 - "I will come again, and receive you"
Titus 2:13 - looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
1 John 3:2 - "when he shall appear, we shall be like him;"
2 Thessalonians 2:1 - "by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,"
Colossians 3:4 - When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Revelation 4:1 - "first voice I heard was as it were of a trumpet* talking with me; which said, Come up hither"