For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

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 thus we shall always be with the Lord.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.