After He said this, He was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. And that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

2 Corinthians 5: . For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body whether good or bad.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”