Fifth, at the coming of the Lord for His people, which may occur at any moment, the bodies of believers now asleep in the grave shall come forth, and real believers who are living at the time shall be caught up with the risen saints in clouds to meet Him in the air.

John xii. 26.—If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

John xiv. 3, 19.—And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. * * * * Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

John xvii. 24.—Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

I Cor. xv. 23, 51-53.—But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. * * * * Be hold, I shew you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality,

Phil. iii. 20, 21.—For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working where by he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

I Thess. i. 10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

I Thess. iv. 15-18.—For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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: 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

I Thess. v. 10.—Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. It will be observed that not a word is here said about the resurrection of the unrighteous dead, nor will they be raised until a thousand years later.