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For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remainuntil the coming of the Lord, will not precedethose who have fallenasleep.
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For the LordHimself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will risefirst.
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Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.