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The Bible teaches that Jesus will come for His Bride, The Vhurch, the body of believers in Him, not some man-made institution such as Methodist-ism, or Baptist-ism, or Mormon-ism, or catholic-ism. Not only will those who have died in Christ be raised to new bodies (1Thess4:13-17) but those bodies will be transformed into immortal bodies(1Cor15:51-53) as those who did not require resurrection (still living in their earthy bodies) are transformed in the twinkling of an eye, caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord IN THE AIR. This is an important point. This event is not the second coming when Jesus comes as King and warrior. It is a coming in the air to take away His Bride to Heaven for the Beam Seat review. Another resurrection will occur at the end of the Tribulation period.

Thedogmatic adherence to the deception that their is only one first resurrection is easily handled by seeing the several instances of dead being raised again to life throughout the Bible. Were these 'the first resurrection'. Well, yes, for individually each is resurrected a first time, so all of them are resurrected a first time and so shall the event of the Rapture be a part of this first resurrection. But the bodies transformed in the Rapture miracle will not be in any second resurrection for they are given immortal bodies in their first resurrection.