The dead rise first at the rapture because they have been waiting longer than those who are raptured while still alive:-
1Th 4:14-18 MKJV For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep [ie died] through Jesus. (v.15) For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.[ie have died] (v.16) For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. (v.17) Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord. (v.18) Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Pentecostals generally believe the rapture will take place soon, the dead in Christ shall rise to heaven first, then to follow those that are alive, and all raptured will be with Jesus forever.
First, the Christians who have died will rise from their graves of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Physically, dead people are dead. They don't rise from the dead.
The word rapture is not used in the bible but in revelations it mentions for all Christians to be "took up" which is is close to its real meaning "to be took up"............................and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 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.........(and only god knows when it will happen)
No, Rapture is not the first rap song. See the Related Question below for more details ("Who had the first rap song and what year?").
People aren't able to rise from the dead. The Ebola victims were mistakenly thought to be dead but were not.
Rapture.
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Yes. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise first to meet Him in the air, followed by the Christians still alive at the time.
To end the rapture, from their first album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet.
blondie-rapture 1981
I do not believe the "Rapture" is mentioned anywhere in the King James version. I am quite certain this is a term that originated in some form of "cultist" group as an interpretation of some verse in The Revelation of Saint John the Divine.AnswerRapture is a phrase used be premillennialists to describe the event of the members of Christ's body, the church, "caught up" in the air to meet Christ. They base this upon 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 which says, "The dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Not all eschatologies include the Rapture as a distinct event.