Graphic Bible · Scene 10 of 12

Interpretive symbolic image of a plain ancient trumpet resting beside closed stone graves, bright open sky; no corpses, supernatural beings or factual future-event reconstruction.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16

The dead will rise first

Holiness, Grief, and Hope Together · 1 Thessalonians 4

Story guide: The promised descent and resurrection place the departed first. This is an interpretive visual essay, not a record of an otherwise unreported event.

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16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Messiah will rise first,

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